Festival2012/Submit/Codebender: Hack the real world
- Title of session: Codebender: Hack the real world
- Your name and affiliation: Vasilis Georgitzikis, lead developer of Codebender
- Session format: Learning Lab
What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?
Our goal is to teach people to hack in the real world, and construct things that have the ability to change (and better) our everyday lives, using easy-to-use tools like the Arduino microcontroller and a variety of sensor and actuators. We will show you how to use the Arduino to get started on your next interactive installation, robotic design, or hobby electronics project.
How do you see that working?
We will be showing and using codebender to develop your first Arduino program fast and easily, and in order to facilitate the collaboration between participants.
We will start by introducing the Arduino and its capabilities, and we will proceed to showcase a couple of projects that use the Arduino. We will then start developing a couple of easy and handy Arduino projects, and get acquainted with programing physical installations and devices.
How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?
5-10 participants is the ideal number for this workshop. we will get everyone's computer set up and ready to use an Arduino, and we will then start hacking. In case we get more participants (or in case someone doesn't bring their laptop), we will divide people into groups and get them to code together and collaborate.
How long within your session before someone else can teach this?
1 hour. After that, people will be encouraged to teach others, develop their own idea, or both.
What do you see as outcomes after the festival?
People will get started with coding on the physical world, and to design things that influence their lives (or the lives of others). Our goal is to bridge the gap between the web and the real world, and we can work towards that by teaching people to code and develop cool, interactive projects.