[p2pu-webcraft] New: Arduino - Build and Hack the Planet

[Chloe Varelidi]

I really love your challenge Nick, especially because you made it about
more than just Arduino!
It would be great to see how that one goes and add more advanced ones down
the road.
A couple suggestions;


   - not sure you need the last part of your description : An Arduino
   electronics board with multi-colored lights will be livestreamed over the
   internet for submitters without their own.
   - overall I would make the description a tiny bit shorter and to the
   point of who is this for, what will you be doing at the end of the
   challenge, why is this important
   - it would be nice if the picture for your challenge was a picture of a
   DIY light show that you have made. It will give your peers some hands on
   example of how awesome what you are asking them to do will look at the end

kudos again, can't wait to see what else will come out of it
Chloe


On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:

> Hi,
> I created a challenge based on the Arduino/electronics course idea.  This
> is the first time I've created a challenge so I could use your input:
> http://bit.ly/arduino-lightshow
> If you don't have the electronics, I've set up a livestreamed,
> programmable Arduino.  Try the sample program at
> http://mapmeld.com/crowdbot if you'd like to try completing that part of
> the challenge.
> Regards,Nick Doiron
> On Tue, November 29, 2011 2:03 pm, Alison Cole wrote:
> > Agree with Philipp.
> >
> >
> > Nick, I know you've run a few courses/groups before. Have you checked out
> >  the challenge model yet? It might be perfect for this topic. I bet you
> > could even get some co-organizers from MAKE magazine. They're obsessed
> > with arduino.
> >
> > Alison
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Chloe Varelidi <chloe at varelidi.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hey Nicholas,
> >>
> >>
> >> super idea! we <3 arduino As a starting point you might want to look at
> >> the Arduino community for some good tutorials. There are some good
> >> tutorials on their learning page http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
> >> and I also like the creative applications page for arduino
> >> http://www.creativeapplications.net/tag/arduino/ & then
> >> http://www.adafruit.com/tutorials & then
> >>
> http://www.eyebeam.org/events/beyond-the-joystick-introduction-to-altern
> >> ative-physical-interfaces
> >>
> >> In general my suggestion if you go along with this to frame it more
> >> like " we will make this and that using arduino" rather than " let's
> >> learn how to use arduino and here are some tutorials". From experience
> >> creating smaller themed challenges that have a context and a clear goal
> >> makes it easier for non-tech people to get engaged with the often hard
> >> process of putting together physical computing interfaces.
> >>
> >>
> >> cheers, Chloe
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hey Nicholas,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This sounds great. Let me know if you need any help. I think I can
> >>> help you get people to sign up once you're ready.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> John Britton
> >>> --
> >>> contact info: http://www.johndbritton.com
> >>> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Nicholas Doiron
> >>> <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd like to propose a P2PU course that's a bit more concrete.  In
> >>>> "Arduino: Build and Hack the Planet", you learn how to use a small
> >>>> open source hardware board to build electronics projects in the real
> >>>> world. Even if you don't have an Arduino, I have tested a video +
> >>>> data stream for people to try out their programs over the internet
> >>>> and watch the results on sample hardware.
> >>>>
> >>>> PC World: What is Arduino?
> >>>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/239454/geek_101_what_is_arduino.html
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Course Page and Photo
> >>>> http://p2pu.org/en/groups/arduino-build-and-hack-the-planet/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't suppose it falls within Webcraft, since we're using actual
> >>>> wires and LEDs, but I wanted to post the announcement here first.
> >>>> Let me know
> >>>> if you already have an Arduino and can share a project or two!
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Nick Doiron
> >>>>
> >>>>
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