[Noisebridge-discuss] Pumpkin Hackin

[Mikael Vejdemo Johansson]

Last tuesday, I advanced the idea of doing a pumpkin workshop - and Mitch 
latched on happily. Thus, the current plans are (seem to be) to have a 
Pumpkin Hackin' Solderin' workshop on October 25 or 26 at 83c.

There is a separate signup page for the pumpkins on 
https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php/Pumpkin_Hackin - and I have listed a 
few of the ideas I've stumbled across so far on what one can do with a 
pumpkin on that page.

My wild unsubstantiated guess is that a typical smallish (i.e. 
non-Arduino) pumpkin controller project should land somewhere around a 
handful of dollars in materials - plus the pumpkin itself - in costs. 
Diodes, resistors et.c. cost "almost" nothing - unless we get fancy and 
start playing with cooler kinds of diodes. For the basic dark-sensing or 
microphone-equipped et.c. pumpkin ideas, I'd think that $5-$6 is a very 
realistic expenses cap on the project.

What (the pumpkin part of) the workshop hasn't got yet is _participants_. 
Go, and sign yourself up as interested if you want to participate!

(Also - someone who'd help me get hold of the actual .. y'know .. pumpkins 
wouldn't hurt either)

As a bonus - I plan to bring enough pots-and-pans and ingredients to make 
pumpkin pies and pumpkin soups out of the parts we remove from the 
pumpkins! It is my naïve and firm conviction that we will extract enough 
pumpkin flesh from carving to actually cook with it!

-- 
Mikael Vejdemo Johansson, Dr.rer.nat.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
mik at stanford.edu