Based on your feedback and my plans, I hope to have the following classes at least once this year:
- Learn to solder (TV-B-Gone)
- Learn to solder (Mintyboost)
- Arduino Programming 101: LED ticker
- Arduino Programming 201: DIY Tetris + Joystick
- Build a Line following robot
- Build a Maze solving robot
- Build a Core XY
- More to be revealed as my plans unfold
- Making a game console from a Raspberry Pi
- RFID+U
- Discover the membership system API
A class a week would be awesome, but for that I would need reliable people who can teach the classes when my schedule doesn’t permit. until then it’s probably going to be every other week. All of this depends on the VHS being open for classes.
Would you like to take a class? Would you like to lead a class (on the list or not)?
I would be down for the Arduino classes and the TV-B-Gone Learn to solder as well. Even the Robot courses too. I think my middle son would get a kick out of them.
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Added building a game console from a raspberry pi. I want a pi connected to the TV. Anyone can play any game on there, provided they can make it run on the pi. We could later do a “make your own joystick” course for playing games on the pi.
Added RFID+U. If I can teach 10 people how to read/write RFID cards then we can set up a system to manage RFID access cards connected to the membership database.
Added Discover the membership system API. By learning the API we can build the RFID system, the “one month coupon from the vending machine” system, and more.
I’m actually just downloading PiPlay to see how it works on the RPi… I have a spare monitor and bought a X-Arcade dual joystick setup. I have shades of a cocktail table or possibly some sort of compact wall mount setup for PacMan (mainly interested in MAME stuff)… I’ll happily get involved in any such class assuming I can get it working…
Anyone have any experience and potential words of wisdom?
I’d be down for the Raspberry pi game console. The RFID would be great too.
I’ll add some topics I know I need to understand more clearly in the near future…
- Using I2C to spread computational load (and pin requirements) across a group of Arduino’s and breakout boards.
when to divide tasks off to other boards
drawbacks to this infrastructure
how the clock thing works and why it’s important (SCL)
- I’m not sure if this is of interest to anyone else but I am going to explore the inverse of powering a motor with an Arduino signal… that side is very straight forward… it’s the moment when the signal to drive a motor ends and there is momentum driving the motor spindle (as in an electric car) and the vehicle can utilize the rotational input of the vehicles momentum to turn around and charge the batteries. The sequence of events that occur is something I am not clear on and likely would provide a deeper insight into how electricity flows and can be harmful to circuits.
Maybe this should be viewed as a course on how to manage changes to the flow of electricity within a more sophisticated project… electricity 201? LOL… it’s probably 101 for all of you but this is something I am very interested in.
I’ll add more if I think of anything! Thank you!!!
I knew I had thought of another project/class…
- Environmental monitoring for sound levels. I live next to railway tracks and the antics that the local train driver/conductors get up to at 3am is sometimes mind blowing. I wouldn’t mind learning how to build a decibel level monitor that stores the data on an SD card for later analysis and presentation of material to CP Rail and the federal layer of government that manages them. (Yes I’m turning 40 this month so I’m becoming a grumpy old guy asap)
