[Bradford] Arduino 101

[David Carpenter]

Wow - good work Nige.

If you want any help with this Nige, just ask.

For a venue, I think the Kirkgate centre (Shipley) would be interested
in having this event and be ok with soldering irons. I'm happy to check
that out for you.

Any more thoughts people?
David
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 16:26 +0000, Nigel Smith wrote:
> I'm currently in talks with a supplier to get a discount on Arduino
> for the day, if I could get a rough idea of interest, that would help,
> currently I'm working on approximately 10, but if you could reply and
> show your interest that would be better.
> 
> 
> I think that targeting this day at a level anywhere above total
> beginner would be disadvantageous, I'm at the stage now where I'm
> putting together some course materials and will be able to provide a
> workbook/handouts and a slideshow/talk to explain exactly what Ardunio
> are and how and what they may be used for.
> 
> 
> There will be a number of basic programming tasks, anyone with the
> smallest amount of experience with C will have no problems, for those
> without any prior programming experience, I'll be explaining the
> basics and show you how to do it through worked examples.
> 
> 
> I shall be explaining my experiences with control engineering and
> different types of sensors along with a warning that you shouldn't
> really be using Arduino for any safety/health critical projects, other
> than that, anything goes.
> 
> 
> Ultimately I can see this as a recurring workshop, moving on through
> more advanced projects as people find their feet.
> 
> 
> There are likely to be small costs involved in the day, would anybody
> be interested in sposorship? If so please get in touch, privately if
> you'd prefer, and I can explain what the costs are likely to be.
> 
> 
> I'd like everybody that attends the day to leave with a Arduino and a
> good understanding of how to get by on their own, I'll make some more
> worksheets for people to take away with them, and point people in the
> direction of a whole wealth of self help material.
> 
> 
> Soldering on the day is unlikely, we don't know what CVS's policies
> are with regard to this as yet (if that's where we hold it), but I
> shall endeavour to find out.
> 
> 
> I hope that answers a few questions for now, once numbers are in I'll
> organise the date, given that it's only a few weeks until March, it
> may be that we have to re-coordinate a more suitable date.
> 
> 
> I expect we'll make this last a full day and arrange some food, I'll
> need to speak to a few people first though, but I feel that if we're
> to do this, we should do it properly.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nige

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