I signed up for a workshop held by Makerspace on uottawa campus.
Taken straight from the calendar of events themselves it is described as:
"This workshop will show you how we can program electronics to read data and produce results, from the Makerspace's own RFID scanner to the colour changing l.e.d. strips programmed to be controlled by an app. We will brush upon using Raspberry Pi and how to use a Pi to control devices over a network."
While I'm not the greatest with technical things I'm very interested to see how my knowledge of these sorts of things.
Okay so after the event- I'm not sure I am that much more knowledgeable on what Raspberry Pi actually is. I did take some notes so from my understanding Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer and costs around $40-$50 dollars and is useful for the internet of things because you can program the device to open your blinds, turn on lights/ music when you walk into a room/home. Other than that what was explained went beyond my base knowledge was going into the event (which by the way there were only six of us and one left around halfway through). I do want to learn how to code though, so I'll update this blog once I begin that leg of my journey.
Here are a few images I took:
Taken straight from the calendar of events themselves it is described as:
"This workshop will show you how we can program electronics to read data and produce results, from the Makerspace's own RFID scanner to the colour changing l.e.d. strips programmed to be controlled by an app. We will brush upon using Raspberry Pi and how to use a Pi to control devices over a network."
While I'm not the greatest with technical things I'm very interested to see how my knowledge of these sorts of things.
Okay so after the event- I'm not sure I am that much more knowledgeable on what Raspberry Pi actually is. I did take some notes so from my understanding Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer and costs around $40-$50 dollars and is useful for the internet of things because you can program the device to open your blinds, turn on lights/ music when you walk into a room/home. Other than that what was explained went beyond my base knowledge was going into the event (which by the way there were only six of us and one left around halfway through). I do want to learn how to code though, so I'll update this blog once I begin that leg of my journey.
Here are a few images I took:
I had hoped this would be more like the Makerspace Mobile experience I was able to have during my Tuesday class but alas, it was not.
During that class we learned about 3D printing and the Arduino board.
During that class we learned about 3D printing and the Arduino board.