The next scheduled meeting of Grey County ARES is Wednesday, September 12th, 7 p.m., at the United Way Office, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. This is the blue building on the corner, just east of the post office and across the street from Knox United Church. Click for Google map.

This month's topic will be "Hobby Microcomputing." Where once we tinkered with transistors and tubes, and later op amps and logic gates, now much electronics tinkering is done with tiny, inexpensive microcontrollers. It's never been easier to get started with these. We'll talk about the Basic Stamp (PIC), the open-source Arduino, and the MSP430 development kit that you can buy for less than $5.