Hinchley Wood Computing, Amateur Radio & Electronics Society

10/10/2019

At our Computer Club tomorrow (Friday 11th October) we will have a short talk for beginners looking at the Anatomy of the Computer. For further details www.hwcares.uk/computer-club

08/10/2019

Autumn Programming Challenge - Are you up for a fun little programming challenge? This is to get you thinking about how to programme some Artificial Intelligence into an autonomous robot that has to fight for it's life against other hostile robots.

PCRobots was written back in the 1990s, but in it's simplicity it provides a very easy way to begin programming something fun that you can experiment with and develop.

For more details of what is involved, and how this works, check out https://www.hwcares.uk/pcrobots/

02/10/2019

Our New Computer Club opens this Friday 11th October, More details www.hwcares.uk/computer-club

14/09/2019

Today, from 10am to 4pm, we are operating a special event radio station from St. Christopher's Church. This event is called CHOTA (Churches and Chapels on the Air), and is organised by the World Association of Christian Radio Amateurs and Listeners.

10/09/2019

We have arranged some Computer Club sessions, starting on 11th October. For further details see our website https://www.hwcares.uk

12/07/2018

HAM / Amateur Radio to the Cave Rescue

It seems that few people are aware that Mobile Phones, or most other radio systems used by emergency services, simply do not work in Caves.

Read this interesting article about Hey Phones, specially designed amateur radio equipment that was needed for the Thai Cave rescue of the 12 children with their football coach.

When mobile phones don’t work, radio amateurs come to the rescue.

Unless you live in a cave, you’ve probably heard a little about the thirteen people — mostly children — trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand. What you may have miss…

28/06/2018

WANTED: Old computers, laptops or tablets. Monitors, mice, keyboards etc... We want to start a new Computer Club for kids in the autumn, but we need some old kit to refurbish and play with. Whatever you have we can recycle it, and it will be going to a good cause.