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
Components
- 2.8" Touchscreen module for RPi (17.40 $) - same as Adafruit one
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.