Events Archive

Here is a list of previous PLUG events, organized by year.

Statecharts, State Machines, and QP/C by Harry McNally
Harry McNally will tell us about State Charts, State Machines and QP/C in embedded systems.

Using VLANs at Home by James Henstridge
James talks about how he used virtual LANs to set up a private guest network at home, spanned over both wired and wifi devices.

Running a Homelab by Jasper Greenhill
A Homelab is a great way to learn new skills and Learn more about Servers and Computers if you work in IT . Jasper goes through the Challenges of running a maintaining his servers and self hosted services at home from 39tb of Storage and a Highly Available Virtualization Cluster running on Enterprise Hardware. He will go over the challenges of keeping things running well and the things he have learned along the way.

Raspberry Pico Sensor Hacking
The UCC has recently set up a door sensor - a Raspberry PicoW and reed switch, talking MQTT to a backend VM - but we’ll be wanting more soon, and perhaps other types of input/output.
Getting Started with Gaming on Linux by Jasper Greenhill
With the popularity of the Steam Deck, gaming has been really good recently. How hard can it be to setup and play games on Linux??

Jasper Greenhill goes through his experiences playing games exclusively on Linux.

Turning your Editor into an IDE with the Language Server Protocol by James Henstridge
James will show us how LSP can add Integrated Development Environment features to your coding. Syntax highlighting for every type of file!

Inkscape and T-shirt printing by John McCabe-Dansted
Join us as John C. McCabe-Dansted gives an overview of the vector drawing program InkScape. This talk is in preparation for a T-Shirt printing day at the Artifactory on April 14th.

Raspberry Pi Jam
February 29th marks 12 years of Raspberry PI releases and development. To celebrate this occasion we are hosting an event to celebrate our favourite SBC single-board computer. Come along for a chance to win a Raspberry PI 5.

Raspberry Pi Jam - Introducing the New Raspberry Pi 5
With the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 5, we are hosting an event to celebrate our favourite SBC single-board computer. We will be going over the new features on Raspberry Pi 5.

Linux sound/audio stack by Lachlan Baker
The Linux audio stack is infamous for it’s turbulent history, plagued by competing standards with dubious compatibility. Join us as Lachlan leads us down the rabbit hole that is the history of audio on *nix, why making your computer play sounds has been such a struggle, and how we’ve finally reached a mostly-good solution.

Android Phone ROMs by Jasper Greenhill
This month, Minilandl gives a presentation on installing and using custom Android ROM’s.

If you have ever been interested in running a custom ROM on your Android phone come along and hear how Minilandl does it.

When a homelab gets too big by Benjamin Arntzen
Wings talks on the situation when a home lab becomes a behemoth unto itself, akin to something comparable to a supercomputer.

SBC Jam on Pi Day
Single Board Computer Jam, on Pi Day: after last year’s Linux Smörgåsbord, we’re holding a SBC workshop. Bring your own laptop/Raspberry Pi/etc. Let us know it you want to talk about or demonstrate a project you’ve done.