Members Introductions aka The Icebreaker discussion.
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Hi, My name is Adam and as the M5Stack community grows everyday I thought I would be interesting to see who is active here and what part of the M5Stack environment is interesting to you the most.
For me is has to be UIFlow as it is the first environment that has allowed me to work with the ESP32 family without major difficulties.
I’m currently working on a UIFlow handbook and some STEM projects.
I have shared a little about me, is anyone else willing to join in?
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Ok, I go second then :)
My name is Fernando and I live in Spain. I have taken some time off but I use to write on several Spanish blogs. You can find an article about M5Stack here in Xataka Home. I'm currently using UiFlow and I'm starting to like it a lot, although I am used to program ESP8266 and ESP32 devices using Arduino and C is my favourite language.
Now I'm working to integrate Blynk with it for revisiting a project of mine and see if I can make it work better.:)
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@f3rn4nd0d
Fernandok from youtube?
Thank you for braking the ice and welcome.
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@ajb2k3 nope, f3rn4nd0d in youtube
You are welcome :)
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Hi，ALL!!!
My name is Yoshiaki Shioiri from Japan.
I live in Shenzhen / China and part time work at M5Stack.
I was an engineer in Japan. But now, I mainly translate the documents into Japanese.I like M5Bala. But I can't understand sensor fusion...what is quarternion??
Please tell me good web site to study sensor fusion!!Thank you!!
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Hi All, I'm Luke from the UK. I've been living in Shenzhen China for the past 6 or so years.
During that time I've learnt a lot about electronics, programming and manufacturing just
from being in Shenzhen and being curious.I now work for M5Stack full time. I mainly focus on promoting M5Stack as a tool for the
STEM classroom. However being a tinkerer I'm always happy to mess around with our
devices and see what I can create. I feel M5Stack has lowered the barrier for me to do
otherwise complex projects and it has given me a real motivation to learn Python.My coding skills are still not great but I manage to get by and hope we can foster a spirit
of sharing in this community where we can all learn from each otherBest
Luke
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Hello! Antonio from Portugal. I am a veterinarian so I understand very little of what I'm doing ehehe. I use this mostly for fun though, so it's alright!
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Welcome Antonio and Bom Dia. We are all here to help, don't hesitate to ask when your stuck here, no matter how basic you may think the question is there are learners of all levels here.
I'm curious do you see any potential applications of our tech in your line of work? I was thinking maybe the heart rate sensor could be useful to track the pets wellbeing or perhaps the gps unit paired with the M5stick to keep a track of the position of the animals.
If you have any ideas we can support you as best as we can in the development.
Best
Luke
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HI my name is Jason
I live and work in Los Angeles. I am a professor at the artcenter college of design in Pasadena. I plan to use the stack to replace in one of my classes in the fall term. I think the first thing that intrigued me about the m5stack was the thoughtful design. It will be great to see how the students use it. I also have a business called machinehistories(www.machinehistories.com). We sometimes incorporate electronics into the various projects we make. The thing that excites me most is how having an awareness of basic coding concepts helps us see how nature (the world around us) is entirely encoded. I think this helps us appreciate things in a far more active way. I think people like Turing and von Neumann spoke to this over 70 years ago but now with having an M5stack you can program something like cellular automata and understand what they were talking about. Anyways I am getting way too off topic. Let me just say thanks for a great product and thanks to all those that contribute to pushing it's use.
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@jpilarski Welcome, I am interested in what you and your class can come up with.
I am working on a handbook and would be interested in any ideas that you may have that can be incorporated into the book in order to make it usable for education.
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@lukasmaximus I have done some things, I have used a pulsimeter sensor with a grove connector and used it to measure heart frequency with a m5stack, that automatically uploads the data to blynk and to a influxdb database that I can see through grafana. I'd like to see more sensores, maybe some sensors to measure more data adapted to animals :) The GPS for example is a good idea, but it would need to be something smaller, and maybe with a gsm module as well! I'd buy that immediately!
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@lastcaress
Because the M5Stack use the Seeedstudio Grove system you can make use of any grove based addons and now with the like of JLPCB you can make your own with simple tools.
@lukasmaximus still waiting on boards and components for the tutorial.
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@ajb2k3 I know, I bought a lot of grove connecting thinggies :D It's great how things come together!
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@lukasmaximus Also, bom dia :D Stick a tiny gps unit into a m5stack stick and I'll approve it, so you can sell it as a veterinarian-approved gps tracked :P
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Hi M5Stack Faces here, pretty cool. I'm in USA and have played around with iOT projects of various nature, Arduino and others. Mostly, I like to collect mini computers; PocketChip, Arduboy, Gole1, RasPi Zero W, and of course I have an M5StickC on the way from the official store! A while back I took a C++ course and am currently working my way through a Python 3 book but I only really program for fun. I use various tools and languages across many platforms to accomplish some crazy things. Thanks for having me hope we can all grow and learn together.
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Hello to everyone here.
My name is Reiner, I live and work in Germany. I work as an assembler for a company that manufactures hall cranes. I think the M5Stack is great, not like the Arduino loose circuit board and so on, but the m5Stack and the sensors all compact and well thought out packed in housings.
Unfortunately I don't always have so much time and I would be happy if sometime a manual and also UIFlow would appear translated into German.
I have a little knowledge of Arduino, but I am not the great programmer.
Since I also have other hobbies like 3D printing with the Anycubic Photon,i3 Mega S and the Chiron and milling with a portal milling machine for model making (Stepcraft-2/D.420).I'm just fascinated by writing, programming, drawing and when it's done the printer or the milling machine or the M5Stack does it.
And the possibilities are almost unlimited because there are so many sensors, I'm still at the beginning and have to understand the M5Stack, unfortunately there are only books about the ESP32, but maybe it will change when there are more people who use it.
Maybe someone here has a tip how and where I can learn the M5Stack and programming , would then like to program with Arduino or UIFlow !!
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@skink Hi, I am currently working on the UIFlow book in english and hope to release a german version along side a polish and english version before the year is out.
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@ajb2k3
I know that I should be more familiar with English, because when it comes to programming, it will always be in English see Arduino programming software and of course UIFlow.
I've already downloaded your manual if not yet finished and sent it through the translator, that's a really big help.
Thank you very much for your efforts in advance!
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@ajb2k3
By the way, the software for the IOT Demo Board
revised in the meantime and works now !
There is a new version at Github.I had written to "support@m5stack.com" and they took a closer look at the program and the bug during compilation were fixed!
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@skink Glad its of use. I'm currently passed the main book to work on a pure UIFlow version. I will be posting an update to it later but after that there wont be any updates until December.
I have someone who has offered to help me with the German version so that will be of help.
