Arduino Lecture, Friday February 4, 10h00
On February 4, a public lecture about Wiring and Arduino boards is offered. The lecture is part of the Hardware & Physical Computing course, but it is open to everyone who is interested.
When: Friday February 4, 10:00-13:00
Where: room 413 of the Snellius building, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333CA Leiden.
Who: open to everyone!
Arduino and Wiring are very popular and cheap (~20 euro) standalone computers with many connection capabilities. They are very popular for interactive artworks and robotics, and can be easily programmed, even with intermediate programming skills. The boards can control all kinds of sensors and actuators. Sensors allow the board to acquire information from the surrounding environment (temperature, light sensors, distance, etc). Actuators are devices that allow the board to create changes in the physical world (lights, motors, heating devices, lcds, etc). It can also interact easily with other devices and computers, such as your PC/Mac, GPS receivers, barcode readers.
Live demonstrations will teach you how to connect various stuff (motors, servo’s, GPS, lcds, etc) to the Wiring and Arduino boards, and how to write code for this. You do not need electronics knowledge to do this and intermediate programming skills are enough.
Read more about the lecture at http://www.maartenlamers.com/ThisIsWiring/.
