[Noisebridge-discuss] Ready to restart Arduino Thursdays at Noisebridge

[Mitch Altman]

While on my most recent workshop tour (Eastern Europe and Belgium hackerspaces and hacker conferences) someone asked if I could do a workshop on TV-B-Gone on Arduino.  I didn't even know someone had created an Arduino version of TV-B-Gone, but someone did.  There were a few bugs in their setup which I fixed, and I bought all the parts so that 10 people could make a TV-B-Gone from a Ladyada BoArduino kit.
 
I'll be home all of October.  If there's interest, I could lead a workshop for totaly newbies to solder together a BoArduino (learning to solder, if needed -- this is no problem for anyone!), and showing how the Arduino works enough to make it turn off TVs in public places from up to 50 meters away.  We'll use solderless breadboards, which are a great tool to get to know so that you can quickly put projects together without needing solder (and if you like the results, you can then solder together a more permanent solution).
 
Is there interest in such a workshop?  It would probably be a 4- or 5-hour workshop.  It could be in one night, or in two.
 
Mitch.
 

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> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:58:02 -0700
> From: michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
> To: michael at michaelshiloh.com
> CC: Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Ready to restart Arduino Thursdays at Noisebridge
> 
> ARGH!
> 
> I just realized that my Thursday evenings are booked for a couple of months.
> 
> I'm going to rethink my schedule, but for the next couple of months if 
> someone else wants to make this happen please do so.
> 
> I'm trying to burn the candle on ends that don't exist.
> 
> On 10/04/2010 07:53 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> > Thanks for all the great feedback.
> >
> > I propose we start next week, and consider doing it every two weeks,
> > carefully skipping Five Minutes of Fame (3rd Thursdays).
> >
> > I'll add this to the calendar
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 10/04/2010 06:26 PM, rachel lyra hospodar wrote:
> >> I'm really interested in the jeenode board, which sure looks like
> >> arduino + zigbee communicator in one tidy package.
> >>
> >> On Oct 4, 2010 5:55 PM, "Daniel Garcia" <dgarcia at dgarcia.net
> >> <mailto:dgarcia at dgarcia.net>> wrote:
> >> > On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> >> >> Me too! I have yet to do anything wireless, but am anxious to try. Do
> >> >> you have any modules?
> >> >
> >> > I have a pair of xbee modules, and the usb explorer and a fio
> >> (arduino w/xbee mountings) - but I got the series 1 models, which don't
> >> do mesh networking.
> >> >
> >> > So far, i've just been using it for wirelessly programming - which
> >> has been fun, but not what I got them for. Once I finish up my current
> >> project (an led clock) i'll probably go back to looking at using the
> >> xbees to talk to each other.
> >> >
> >> > I think if I want to play with mesh though, i'll have to go with the
> >> series 2.5.
> >> >
> >> > --Dg
> >> >
> 
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