Diyode [@Diyode] is a Guelph Hardware Club that meets at 9pm on Monday nights at The Penny Whistle Pub in downtown Guelph. This group offers hands on learning with simple breadboard electronics building.
Get Your Geek on with an Arduino
The Volunteers of The DIYode Makers Club are putting on an Arduino Workshop.
Venue: 10 Carden Theatre
Location: 10 Carden St. Guelph, Ontario
Date: Saturday May 15th, 2010
Time: 1pm – 3pm
What is an Arduino?
Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.
Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can be communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP.) The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.
The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment
Where can I find more information?
Find out more about the event, then sign up for the event.
I hate to say it, but I think we’ve gone off the tracks. We’ve lost our can-do attitude. We are a generation who would rather buy something than make it. Who would rather throw something away than fix it. More kids are swinging Wii remotes than hammers, and the venerable soap box derby has been completely displaced by Mariokart. Is this something that we are going to stand for, or are we going to fight it?
