iteles
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4 years ago I think this is a great idea. We need to make sure part of the video (a very small, rapid-fire part) gives people some knowledge about what cool things they can do with their RPi so they have a reason for getting into this. https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en
Although this might not be critical for our current priorities, it's worth investing a specific time block into it because: a) We have a lot of videos in our future and we need to start making progress on them b) Most importantly, we need to have a good idea of what is involved and the time required so that in future we can estimate this correctly. Starting with something small and very specific like this is great! c) It capitalises on our enthusiasm for this idea now
@nelsonic Shall we storyboard this towards the end of the week and film over the weekend? I agree that Braga will likely have better lighting and audio conditions, so maybe we film next week?
nelsonic
We have created over 100 tutorials explaining several technical concepts github.com/search?q=learn. We have never done a tutorial that starts from the very beginning and makes no assumptions about past experience/knowledge. Also, we have not stitched our tutorials together to form a coherent "course" or "curriculum" that someone can follow at their own pace and build a fully working application.
We need to change this. We need to start from unboxing, plugging in and turning on the computer! Along the way we need to inform people that a Raspberry Pi is just one of the many options for a computer and that people can follow along with our tutorial series with whichever computer they have. Our reasoning for using the Raspberry Pi is that it's really affordable ($35), widely available and can be used in a variety of electronics projects.
@iteles we already have the Raspberry Pi 4 Starter. So we have everything we need to do the video. I would like to record the following:
"Hello World"in whatever programming language is available on the machine. We could dopython,JavaScript(document.write("Hello World")) orScratch.I expect the recording of the "talent" parts of the video to take around 1 hour. I am happy to provide as little or as much direction in the recording. Also very happy to follow any ideas that surface for how to make the video engaging/interesting. I Will be the camera person and will do the editing/composition. I expect the final video to be around 10 mins long with several sections (e.g boot sequence) sped-up to not bore viewers.
The ultimate objective is a video that anyone can follow to get their RPi up-and-running. And then we will encourage people to ask questions if they get stuck.
Please note: I know there are many videos on YT featuring setting up the RPi. ✅ But we need to start at the beginning so that we can make a complete series. Think of this first video as the "back story" where we introduce the main characters. It might not be the most interesting video (though we will try our best to spark curiosity), but it's absolutely necessary to setup for the future videos.
@iteles please let me know your thoughts, when you have time to discuss/story-board. 📆 It might be the case that we want to record this in Braga where we have better lights/background ... 💭