Raspberry Pi Weekend

2 day event sometime in 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.

The events will be held in two places, the goal is to hold two talks/workshops at the same time. It still needs to be decided where these two places will be. Carmelo has given approval to accommodate 50-100 people.

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
• Analog input/output on RPi
• Project: LED controller
• Project: weather station
• Project: TL bus display
• Project: something else that is cool
• Project: infobeamer

More ideas on Pihunt

Participants

Rough interest expressed for participation during weekend:

• Francois - playing with the RPi camera, possibly streaming if he can figure it out
• Simon & Laura (fragment.in) - something with occulus rift? their friend made a turtle tweeting pi
• Max - xbmc media center set up, maybe something else
• Oscar - bring 10~20 old laptops for event that were previously used at his office
• Rorist - something
• Pierre - creating your own NXT coin/FixmeCoin
• Sasha - filling in parts that no one else is willing to do

Components

• Screens
  • 2.8" Touchscreen module for RPi (17.40 $) - same as Adafruit one
  • 7" Screen for RPi (21.60 $)
  • 3.6" Screen for RPi (7.65 $)
• DB18B20 sensors
• Plexiglass for laser cut cases
• SD cards
• RPi cameras
• WiFi USB adapters
• LED strips
• BUZ11 for LEDs and other peripherals
• Breadboards
• Jumper cables

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
• April 18/19: event (likely date)

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.