BALUG - August 2026 - What would you like to see?

[CaseyM]

Even though the Q2 user group meeting just wrapped up, we're already thinking about the Q3 meeting on 8/18.

Please take a moment to answer our very quick poll on what type of presentation you'd like to see next:

https://linkto.run/p/WK1SIX4K

We'll try to accommodate as best we can so make sure to voice your opinion!

[Gregory]

I just wanted to give a little more info on the "other" options I added. These were mostly for fun.

Coding puzzle (similar to Advent of Code): Anyone who wants to participate could enter a submission maybe 1 week before. We could go through a couple of the submissions together and maybe pick a winner for fastest execution time or most liked solution.

LabVIEW trivia: trivia questions or multiple-choice questions (similar to re/certification tests). People grouped into small teams.

[CaseyM]

I like these ideas. We'll try to incorporate it into a future meeting.

[Dmitry]

I recently did a project that required acquiring data from multiple radio-based sensors (at 433 MHz) and can present on how to do that using a $50 SDR (Software Defined Radio) Receiver and open source software.

After that I've added multiple temperature/humidity sensors and soil moisture sensors (all on 433 MHz) to my home automation system running on Home Assistant Green platform (no programming required) and can compare effort/limitations of this approach to creating a custom LabVIEW application.

[D_Hooks]

That sounds like a really interesting presentation! I think we're locked in for the agenda at our upcoming meeting, but I'd love to see this at a future one.