Open Source SG - Shrimping (hand-built Arduino) workshop
Event Information
Description
Speaker(s): Led by Jeremy Bennett, Chair, BCS Open Source SG
Summary of event:
The shrimp is a small Arduino compatible computer built on a breadboard.
In this 1.5 hour workshop you will learn how to build and program a Shrimp, with two projects.
Project 1: Flashing LED. This project is to get you started. You will build the shrimp, and get it to flash a small LED. You will then learn how to program the shrimp to change how the LED flashes.
Project 2: Persistence of vision. You will add a line of LEDs to your shrimp, and program it to flash them at very high speed, so when waved in the air it spells out a message.
At the end of the workshop you can take your shrimp home with you.
This workshop is suitable for anyone over the age of 7. For children 7-11, it is very much about following instructions to build a computer. For older children (our record is 92), you will start to understand how a computer works and want to explore how much it can be modified.
Pre-requisites: BCS Open Source SG will supply the Shrimping kits. You'll need to bring a laptop with the free Arduino IDE installed (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software).
Speaker Biographies (50 words per speaker):
Dr Jeremy Bennett is Chair of the BCS Open Source Specialist Group. He is also Chief Executive of Embecosm who provide open source compiler development services. A former academic he is author of the standard textbook “Introduciton to Compiling Techniques” (McGraw-Hill 1990, 1995, 2003).
Agenda:
18:00 - Registration, including tea, coffee and networking
18:30 - Workshop start
20:00 - Workshop end
Networking: Continues after the workshop in the Coal Hoal Pub on The Strand
Will catering be provided?
Refreshments are provided, though no food is being provided.
About the organiser:
This event is organised by the BCS Open Source SG, find out more about the group at http://ossg.bcs.org/.
For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.
Organiser BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Organiser of Open Source SG - Shrimping (hand-built Arduino) workshop
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