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MegaSquirt 'MegaMeet 2009'

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Thanks to everyone that came out and for those that helped with the presentations and all for helping to make this a very successful meet. In all we pretty easily had 120+ people out which is easily double that of any past meet, there was alot of new information shared (MS3!) and alot of cool people to chat with. I think good times were had by all.

Just looking at tags in the parking lot and talking to people, we had people here from Georgia (of course), Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, and then from as far away as Canada and the U.K.!

We'll have some videos up in due time, but in the meantime, here are the presentation powerpoint files, and some pics that we took. Kyle (from 1320Video.com) will have some more pictures posted soon as well as all of the mountains of video he took. We'll update this page with that when it's available.

Presentations from MegaMeet 2009:

In case you missed it, download and view some of the presentation material here!

MegaSquirt Fundamentals

Intellitach - Death to tach signal noise

X-Tau - What it means and how it works

TunerStudio

MSII Sequencer, MegaSquirt-III, and MicroSquirt Module Introduction

MicroSquirt Module In-Depth*

Peter Florance on getting started with MegaSquirt

Pictures from MegaMeet 2009:

* A note about the module in-depth presentation: The coordinates for the J1 header in the dimensioned drawing are a bit off; first pin should be at (1,0.3).

Old schedule and planning info for the meet is below, just kept around for history's sake....

When: Meet will be Saturday April 18th, 2009 -- We'll be hanging out in the area Friday 17th thru Sunday morning the 19th. See schedule below.

Where: DIYAutoTune.com's home base in Suwanee, GA just North of Atlanta. See detailed directions below.

What: The Annual MegaMeet is the opportunity to come and hang out with all of the major car geeks that make the MegaSquirt project happen. Just about everyone that's played a major role in the project from early on, which of course includes Bowling and Grippo and most of the masses of contributors that have made this project possible. If you can think of a name that you've heard, a firmware / tuning software / etc coder or contributor, or documentation person, or support guy, or just hardcore 'when I bleed it MegaSquirts out of my body' type of guys/gals they will very likely be there. We've had people travel from as far as the UK to be here and that's likely to happen again this year.

So what do we really do?

Well, you'll get a glimpse at upcoming hardware and get to hear all the skinny on it. Tuning software as well. Anything MS related that's in the works or coming together, it will likely be here and you'll see it first. So basically we gather around, geek out, ooo's and aaa's are heard, we check out each other's rides, throw em' on the dyno and see what they can do, have some food, have some more formal discussion times where upcoming hardware/software can be shown off and/or technical concepts can be discussed/explored, and generally just have a good time.

There is plenty of parking on-site and plenty of room to hang out here...

Schedule

We'll firm this schedule up more soon, but here's what we've got now.

Friday 4/17

People start rolling in in the afternoon/evening, get settled in at the hotel, we grab a bite to eat, have a beer if you want it, and hang out until ??

There's an Applebees right next to the Fairfield Inn Hotel most people are staying at, those who can, will meet there at around 8pm or so, casually as others show up at the hotel and check in, come on over and join us! If we're not there anymore, you'd probably already know it by the large crowd of guys/sometimes gals geeking out over some car and usually a laptop attached to said car, in the hotel parking lot. Actually, that's likely to be happening even if we are still over at Applebees, so pick your poison...

APPLEBEES SUWANEE -- 8pm or so until sometime after that...
125 Gwinco Blvd
Suwanee, GA 30024
Phone: 770.945.1352

Saturday 4/18

Breakfast at the hotel early, then get on over to DIYAutoTune as the presentation schedule is busy.
9:00am - Discussion/Tech Sessions including the following topics:
- Bruce: MicroSquirt and uS Module Update - 15min
- Bruce / Al / Bill Lucas: Sequencer Update - 30min
- Phil Tobin: TunerStudio and MegaLogViewer - 30min
- Ken: PID Loops in laymens terms - 30min
- Bruce / Al: Intellitach - 30min
- Bruce / Al / James / Ken: MegaSquirt-III Update -30min
- Lunch Break
- Bruce and Ken: Basic MegaSquirt Calculations/How it works - 1hr
  - Fuel and Ignition Calculations
  - MAF/MAP mode
- Peter Florance: Practical Installation Tips and Bringing it all online. - 1hr
  - Best practices for wiring/installation. Avoiding, detecting, and correcting electrical noise.

2:30pm - After the tech sessions we'll bust out the dyno and play a little bit.
- Power pulls only. $20 per car for three pulls. That's dirt cheap and will pay poor Justin a few bucks for being stuck on the dyno all day while the rest of you have fun.
- Bring $20 cash for your pulls to keep it easy...
- We've already shut down the signup list, trying to leave room for a few drive-ups if possible. We'll fit in what we can so come on out and hang out.
- Note this is the MegaSquirt meet, cars running a MegaSquirt EMS will be prioritized on the dyno.

Saturday night, more food/drinks and hanging out in parking lots staring at cars and laptops until ??

There's no telling what else may happen, we've completely fabbed an EFI system up for a car and had it dialed in and driving away by the end of the weekend before--

Sunday 4/19

Breakfast at the hotel and people start to go their own way.....

Where to stay?

We've arranged a group rate at the Fairfield Inn Suwanee. There are currently 25 rooms blocked out.
4 Doubles @ $75 each
4 King rooms @ $75 each
17 King Suites @ $79 each <-- these could be considered the 'nice doubles'. Has one King bed and a foldout, so someone will be on the foldout couch, but it's a big room and has a flat screen TV on the wall.

Fairfield Inn Suwanee
105 Gwinco Blvd.
Suwanee, GA 30024
Phone Number: 770-932-9292
Group Name (for the group rate) is 'MegaSquirt Meet' at the 'Suwanee, GA Fairfield Inn'
You have until March 28th to reserve your room or they will be released.
My guess is the King Suites will go fast!

Directions/Travel

If you're flying in, you want to fly into Hartsfield. It's a massive airport, and most of it is dedicated to Delta. That means you'll likely get the best ticket rates on Delta...

Directions from Hartsfield Airport to the Fairfield Inn

From the Atlanta Hartsfield Internation Airport, take 85N. Stay on 85 through Atlanta, you'll have to stay in the left lanes when 75/85 split.
Stay on 85N, exit at 111, Lawrenceville Suwanee Rd.
Turn RIGHT on L'ville Suwanee Rd.
Take your first RIGHT on Gwinco Blvd.
The Fairfield Inn is at 105 Gwinco Blvd on the right.

Directions from the Fairfield Inn to DIYAutoTune.com

Turn LEFT out of the Hotel onto Gwinco Blvd.
Turn LEFT onto Lawrenceville Suwanee Road.
Go about .8 miles and turn LEFT onto Satellite Blvd.
Go about a mile a turn RIGHT onto McGinnis Ferry.
Go about .5 miles and you'll cross a concrete bridge, immediately after the bridge turn LEFT on Burnette road.
Take your first LEFT onto Burnette Park Drive.
We're the second building on the right, 3690 Burnette Park Drive. In the back, suites D and E.