Ardunio has announced "Arduino Day" - a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s first 10 years.
I have registered for an event in Mumbai for the same, awaiting for their approval now.
If any one interested we can club somewhere on the same day with discussions/sessions on Ardunio hacks.
*About Arduino Day*
*Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s first 10 years. It’s 24 hours full of events – both official and independent, anywhere around the world – where people interested in Arduino can meet, share their experiences, and learn more.* *ho can participate?*
*Arduino invites all Arduino user groups, makerspaces, hackerspaces, fablabs, associations, teachers, pros, and newbies to participate. Let’s make this the biggest birthday party yet!*
*What can you do during Arduino Day?*
*You can attend any event or organize one for your community.*
*It doesn’t matter whether you are an expert or a newbie, an engineer, designer, crafter or maker: Arduino Day is open to anyone who wants to celebrate Arduino and all the things that have been done (or can be done!) with it.*
*The events set up by independent organizers will offer different types of activities, tailored to local audiences all over the world.*
Hi,
Nice - Count me in if you need volunteers to organise/speak at the event!
Regards, Ankit Javlkar
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Ardunio has officially approved our Ardunio Day Mumbai event.
I have made a simple website (in wordpress) for the same. http://arduinomumbai.wordpress.com/
Request you to register yourself @ http://arduinomumbai.wordpress.com/register/.
Now we need to get some speakers to conduct sessions on Arduino. Pls suggest.
Hi Siji,
To be honest I'm an amateur 'Duinoist. I'm open to your suggestions as to Arduino topics that may need some love (meaning need to be brought to attention of the public).
Otherwise I could handle/co-organise/volunteer simple tutorials for Arduino newbies.
Apart from speaking I can also help you with overall organisation.
P.S. Do I need to register on the registration link as well???
Thanks & Regards, Ankit
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Siji,
I'm looking forward to your feedback.
In the meantime - If I may suggest - can I take a session on 'How to use GitHub for Newbie Open Source Hardware enhusiasts' at the Arduino day?
Please let me know if you agree at the earliest.
Thanks & Regards
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Ankit Javalkar ankitjavalkar@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Ankit,
Sorry for not replying.
Yes, you can talk about 'How to use GitHub for Newbie Open Source Hardware enhusiasts'. I will add it in the schedule in sometime.
Pls share your contact no.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ankit Javalkar ankitjavalkar@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Siji,
Thanks for your reply - If I may ask can you amend the Talk heading to "How to use Github for Newbies" as I'd like to keep it generic and agnostic (not specifically about Hardware/Software).
Thanks for the opportunity.
Regards
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
My personal opinion is that maintaining the international date for the event will provide the event weightage and significance.
Not to mention the online aspect, it will be easy to gather and channel the online attention as attendees/participants will be tweeting and posting on the same day as the event is going on around the world.
I vote for the date to stay on 29th
Regards
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
It makes sense to keep the event separate. For venues, you could check Maker's Asylum https://www.facebook.com/makersasylum or The Hive https://www.facebook.com/alivehive I can put in touch with someone at those places.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
If I may - You can also look at The Playce (Mulund West, Mumbai) https://www.facebook.com/theplayce [I can give you the contacts of one of the founders if required]
Maker's Asylum is great if the attendees are limited to 15-20 people max.
Regards
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
The only problem with The Playce is that it's in a corner of Mumbai whereas other 2 are centrally located in Bandra. Else The Playce is a good option too.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Ankit Javalkar ankitjavalkar@gmail.com wrote:
So let's keep "Arduino Day" separately, as planned on 29th March.
Regd. venue :
Mehul, Pls introduce to the responsible persons @ "The Hive' and "Maker's Asylum".
I do agree with Mehul's point, THe playace is in Mulund which may not comfortable for many people. And I believe there wont more than 20 audience. Right now I have received the registration of around 8-10.
Can there be a really short session on basics of electronics + soldering, for noobs like me , i'd be deeply interested in that (even though it's just show and tell and the attendees don't get actual practice)
*Cheers !!!*
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
As the discussion happens with ISDI (Indian School Of Design and Innovation, who also registered for the same event in Mumbai), am thinking to merge these separate events into one.
What's your opinion ?
Here the facilities having at ISDI :
1. 2000 sq. ft of space (at least) + some interesting open air, corridor, and breakout spaces 2. Studio work benches 3. WiFi! 4. Projectors and stuff 5. Art and Craft materials
Awesome piece of electronics. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-chip-sized-arduino...
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome piece of electronics.
Hello All,
Arduino Day will be celebrating at Maker's Asylum Mumbai ( https://www.facebook.com/events/379786245492757/).
We are thinking for a "Uniconference" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference), which will start by 11.00 AM on 29th March, 2014 (Saturday).
Below the current planned sessions :
Sessions:
1. Demo on Serial Oscilloscope, how to use it and how useful it is. - Shreeyash Salunke
2. Show-n-tell on E-Bag 2.0, E-Bag is an electronic bag which makes day to day life easy. Some features of e bag are: It has a mini refrigerator, it has a heater, it has a mobile phone charger, it has anti theft protection which prevents your phone or wallet from getting stolen, it has a 230 Volts 50 Hz Power plug which can deliver upto 150 watts of enegry and all this runs on a 2200 mAh lithium polymer battery. - Kaustubh Shivdikar
3. Demo on FiftyFiveDSL - Tweet to shoot (http://vimeo.com/53140201http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F53140201&h=rAQFb7ytD&enc=AZNZWrtZUiu9pplSuELfnBMvNTfL1rWM6-5ASlDEECnST9P9BQAmJhacz-iXA7ze3fk&s=1) A gun, wired up to the internet was set up in the middle of a mall in front of a moving target. Passers by were encouraged to tweet @fiftyfivedsl along with #GetHit The tweet would trigger the gun and anyone who hit the target would win 55DSL goodies. - Arjun Jindam
4. Show-n-Tell on various Arduino projects. - Karan Satish Chaphekar
5. Talk on Open Hardware. - Anool Mahidharia
6. Show-n-Tell on various Arduino projects. - Anool Mahidharia
7. Arduino The Documentary screening. :)
Hi Siji,
Just two things to clarify so that I can structure and prepare the talk accordingly;
1> Structure - A PPT Presentation + Talk + Demo (Demo = Guide all the Github Newbies to register a/c on Github, Install Git and initialize, commit and branch a sample project) 2>Time duration - 45 min + 15 min buffer (in case the demo exceeds the 45 min limit)
Like I mentioned if you can pleas eamend the Talk title to "How to use Github for Newbies" .
Thanks for the opportunity.
Regards
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ankit Javalkar ankitjavalkar@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Ankit Javalkar ankitjavalkar@gmail.com wrote:
Like I mentioned if you can pleas eamend the Talk title to "How to use Github for Newbies" .
It makes hardly any sense to have a talk on "github for newbies" for Arduino day. It would be more useful if you rather have "Arduino Developer's Introduction to Github" where you cover github introduction to begin with but also address scenarios that hardware developers are more likely to face e.g. we taught a friend how to store his KiCad source files on github since it's a XML format and can be diff'd and we were supposed to use git hooks to run a process to convert each build to a final PDF output which can be shared to the end user. Thus, it will be more helpful if you can address more specific issues that Arduino Developers will face than just a github introduction.
Hi,
I have not used github in that context and hence will not be the best person to guide.
As you are already aware, github is not technology specific - in fact in github's educational vids, they explicitly mention that any 'knowledge worker' can benefit [where a knowledge worker is any person who makes use of a computer]
I understand that your suggestions are aimed at making talk more inclined towards the overall theme - but I guess there's no harm in having a github training session as I'm sure not a lot of people may have started of with github, at least not the newcomers.
The final decision is in the organizers hands - please let me know
regards
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ankit,
I do agree with Mehul's view, also there is session on the same topic happening @ ILUG Meetup on 23rd. So as you mentioned initially, if you can find some relevant topics with reference to Arduino, Open-Hardware an github will give more sense.
Another suggestion from me is to Introduce "Arduino Programing Language", prepare some examples on the same, publish it on your Github account. And demonstrate/ explain these programs with basic Github features for publishing/sharing the code with community.
(**We are not trying to discouraging you :) , just want to make sure that the proposed sessions are relevant to the event title.)
regards
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Siji/Mehul,
Thanks for the suggestions - Like I mentioned earlier I do understand that you are trying to make sure that the topics stay faithful to the theme of the day - no offence taken.
If I were to go ahead with the talk - the demo that I mentioned earlier would be taken using simple arduino sketches (blink etc) and fritzing files to demonstrate that OSHW enthusiasts can use Github as well.
As the Arduino Programming Language is a independent topic in itself - I don't think it would be fair to club it with github as a talk/demo.
Trying to figure things out.
regards
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Siji Sunny sijisunny@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just to clarify, in keeping with Siji's and Mehul's advice - I'll withdraw the proposal for my talk.
Kindly let me know if you need a voluntary hand for helping organize the event.
Regards, Ankit
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Ankit Javalkar ankitjavalkar@gmail.comwrote:
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