CAOS would like to wish everyone good luck on upcoming finals. If students are looking for something to learn over the summer, CAOS suggests dowloading the Stanford iPad and iPhone App Development series, as there will be a few summer CAOS Learning Series in which we will meet on campus for about 2-3 hours to discuss the material, and develop small iPhone applications. Download Stanford Videos in iTunes

This semesters final meet will be a field trip to UMSL. We will meeting to carpool at 6:15pm SHARP in the CS LAB to go to the 7pm presentation on cyber security by expert Hal Berger. Berger has received the ACM Outstanding Lecturer of the year four times as well as both the ACM Outstanding Contribution and Distinguished Service awards. We all know that finals are next week, but this is an opportunity to hear a distinguished CS person speak and to meet members of other regional ACM chapters.

At this weeks meetup I will be presenting my prototype of a lamp that changes color based upon the current weather report.  Bring your thinking caps because we will be looking at some code in the Processing language as well as the Arduino microcontroller platform.  All code presented is my personal work and is open source under the BSD license.  I hope this will be an interesting introduction to the powerful features of the processing language and the infinite hackability of the arduino microcontroller platform.

Thanks for reading,

BK Turley

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
~Suzie Wagner, 1998, honorable mention in the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge