Raspberry Pi Weekend

2 day event sometime in March/April at Fixme, focused on exploring and playing with the Raspberry Pi. The idea is to organise a big RPi event with lots of talks, workshops, and projects for everyone, especially the public.

Event ideas

 * Introduction to RPi
 * Downloading and setting up NOOBS
 * RPi history
 * Introduction to GPIO
 * Advanced GPIO
 * Command line basics
 * Introduction to scripting
 * Python basics
 * Introduction to programming with scratch
 * 3D printing RPi cases
 * Laser cutting RPi cases
 * Connecting LCD to RPI
 * Connecting camera to RPi
 * Connecting WiFi to RPi
 * Project: LED controller
 * Project: weather station
 * Project: TL bus display
 * Project: something else that is cool

Schedule

 * Early march: set a date and discuss possibilities
 * Mid march: start developing workshops and finding motivated people
 * Mid march: start advertising the event massively
 * Late march/early april: have event

Resources
It would be nice to have some more RPi's that we can give to the public with a caution, as well as a wide selection of RPi sensors. We will also need to make sure to place this event in all of the calendars that univercite and hackuarium use to avoid confusion.