Arduino
@ Ravensbourne College - Saturday March 13th 2010 10:00am - Sunday March 14th 2010 5:00pm
The Arduino is an open, hackable microcontroller, designed to be easy to program and easy to build things with. Simply put: the ultimate hacker toy; you can have a device that you can program from any computer with a USB port, and that is capable of interfacing with the outside world. It doesn't require any special training in electronics, and is ideal for experimentation. You can add an amazing array of sensors and add-on boards to allow you to do just about anything you can imagine, from reading the temperature to getting GPS coordinates.
RAD is a framework for programming the Arduino physical computing platform using Ruby. RAD converts Ruby scripts and helpers into code that can be compiled and run on the Arduino microcontroller. This course introduces this new designer-friendly way of embedded programming.
Delegates should bring a laptop with them - you will need to have admin rights - but you don't need any prior electronics knowledge - we will also provide an Arduino beginners kit to use on the day.
Schedule
Day 1
Introductions and the history of Arduino
Introduction to interaction design and the history of Arduino
Getting started with Arduino
Day 2
Presentations of project proposals
Build your project
Documentation