Schedule a talk on open source hardware/Arduino.

nandgate commented 11 years ago

There has been a request for this kind of material on Twitter, I'm game to put something together but need a heads up on the schedule. -John Lowe

virtualandy commented 11 years ago

This would be awesome. +++would buy from again The Arduino documentation is pretty good (especially the guide that comes with the SparkFun kit) so the 'connect to a machine via USB and make an LED flash' is probably pretty easy for most. What I'd love to see at a DOSUG talk are ideas/tips/tricks that go beyond step 1 (whether arduino or other hardware based). Such as:

How do I build a circuit in software/in an app to test and see if it works before I put the jumpers in the breadboard? Is there such a thing and is that useful (i.e. 'The way you have that designed won't work so don't bother'). Maybe this includes an Ohm's law primer.
What can an Arduino or RaspberryPi do for me - what sort of input/output can it do and at what 'resolution' (i.e. I can hook a temp sensor to it but how good is the quality of that data)
What sort of add-ons are available and how easy are they to build myself? (i.e. I have an idea for a nuclear-bomb-sensing shield (not really, but let's pretend) so how do I build that and hook it up)
My device is doing I-don't-know-what, how do I debug/test this?

Any of those would be cool but I'm sure John has a ton of awesome topics he could cover.

tlberglund commented 11 years ago

@nandgate We would love this on April 9. Bring it, John!

nandgate commented 11 years ago

April works for me, though the meeting (1st Tuesday of the month) is on the 2nd, not the 9th. (right?) I will post an abstract here soon.

tlberglund commented 11 years ago

Yes, that's correct. April 2. Oops. :)

So...let's do this. Glad you're in!

nandgate commented 11 years ago

Here is a the abstract:

Over the past few years a number of open source friendly embedded platforms have become very popular and received some press, the Arduino and Raspberry-Pi being the most popular examples. This evening we'll compare the capabilities of a number of these platforms and evaluate how to choose one of these platforms for a project. We will then discuss some basic electronics concepts (and yes, Ohm's law will be mentioned) needed to interface one of these platforms to the "real world", how to prototype a project and other things a "maker" would consider when working with embedded platforms. We'll wrap up by going over some of the tools used for testing and debugging both the software and hardware for a project, and maybe do a little live coding to see the tools (both HW and SW) in action.

tlberglund commented 11 years ago

This is so incredibly approved. Guise, any problem with John taking both slots? He really needs them.

@danhillenbrand I think it would be fine to get this abstract on the site.

danhillenbrand commented 11 years ago

The site is now updated: http://meetup.denveropensource.org/events/105154162/

Arduino

matthewmccullough commented 11 years ago

@danhillenbrand Gorgeous!

virtualandy commented 11 years ago

This was an awesome talk. @john_lowe posted his slides at http://nandgatetech.com/files/Presentations/OpenSourceHardware.pdf and @andrewserff took some notes and shared them at https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/905af51e-4bc8-410e-8c97-1ec66d89d4c2/812a3e187105042c2eeec74958a3fcff

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