In other news, I’m also talking at the LFPUG about messing around with Arduino - check out the event page here. It’s free - and as it’s in Cosmo Bar, you can get progressively more drunk as the evening progresses!
In April, I’m leading a workshop with the Arduino folks on physical computing wih flash and arduino - a neat microcontroller board that lets you connect switches, sensors, motors, lights - anything electronic, really - to flash.
The event page is here.
“Lead by Alias Cummins and assisted by Brock Craft, this workshop is aimed at people who are comfortable with Flash, and want to start experimenting/working with Arduino, but have little or no experience of physical computing. The workshop will focus on getting them through the first few steps, which are usually the most difficult, and give them the tools and knowledge to continue learning on their own.
First, you will quickly cover the basics of getting your Arduino connected up and writing simple programs and finally getting Flash to talk to an integrated circuit via Arduino. All the while you will be approaching this from a flash perspective, with our primary development language being ActionScript 3.
What do I need to bring?
- A laptop
NB: Prior Knowledge of electronics is not necessary to attend this workshop but you MUST have prior knowledge of Flash.
What we will provide- The beginners Arduino kit which you can take away with you after the workshop.
When?
April 5- 6th 2008
From 10am to 6pm”
So, I’m back from snowboarding, and happy to announce that I’ll soon be taking up residence at Something Labs. There’s a lot of very talented and awesome people there, including Toxi, Chris O’Shea, Tinker.it and many others. Hopefully lots of exciting developments will come of this new arrangement.