[IEE EC3 News] Lecture reminder - The Power of Open Systems and Open Minds to Improve Aviation Safety - 24 January 2019

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

You are being sent this reminder message because either you gave your
email address at one of our previous lectures or you signed up on the
web site associated with this email list:

http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/iee-ec3-news

I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you
there.

You can download a poster from the following IET web page to display
in your place of work:

https://communities.theiet.org/files/16598

Please note that this lecture is in the Edith Morley Building at the
University of Reading.

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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The Power of Open Systems and Open Minds to Improve Aviation Safety

Keith Vinning, PilotAware Ltd

Thursday 24 Jan 2019 19.00 for 19.30

Van Emden Theatre, Edith Morley, University of Reading RG6 6UR

Small, inexpensive but powerful single board computers, like Arduino
and Raspberry Pi, allow ideas to be turned into prototypes and
products at an accelerating pace. The success of such devices is well
known when they are used as an educational device for the young, but
this talk will show how they can also be used very successfully to
meet a real demand at a fraction of the price traditionally expected.
It will explain how initial ideas to produce a homebuilt device to
detect nearby aircraft at a local Flying Club has grown, with the help
of several otherwise disparate communities to be the fastest-growing
Electronic Conspicuity device in Europe over the last 3 years.

It will also show how this would not have been possible without
individual and collective passion to engage and deliver at the
community level, and it will also demonstrate the tangible benefits of
sharing a lifetime's knowledge with the community can be fantastically
rewarding and very worthwhile.

This event is free of charge and open to all: refreshments at 19.00,
lecture at 19:30. Contact: Prof Richard Mitchell -
rjmitchell at theiet.org

http://www.theiet.org/ec3

The Van Emden Theatre is in the Edith Morley Building, on the
Whiteknights Campus. If you come by car it is recommended that you use
Car Park 1A on the Whiteknights campus which is free in the evenings.
The SatNav postcode for this is RG6 6UR. The car park and Edith Morley
buildings are shown in the PDF available at
https://communities.theiet.org/files/16684 . See also the University’s
web page at http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/visit-us.aspx for
other means of getting to the campus.