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

[Chloe Varelidi]

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-alternative-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
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>
>
> 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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