Specialty Series: Arduino Workshop

Making with Arduino Workshop

Making with Arduino is a hands-on workshop designed to guide you through the fundamentals of prototyping with Arduino. You will be provided an Arduino and a small assortment of electronics components to work with throughout the workshop (and take home with you!).

There will be about 1 - 1.5 hours of explaination and guided instruction. After that, you are free to choose a project and begin working! I'll have some sample projects that you can try out, or you can bring your own idea.

Workshop Goals:

• Gain an basic understanding of electronics & circuitry.
• Get an overview of using the C programming language for embedded programming.
• Practice designing and prototyping small projects with Arduino.
• Learn how we can get our projects online and interfacing with external services or APIs.
• Finally, discuss how we can apply lessons learned from embedded programming to improve our Ruby or JavaScript code.

Presenter

Ryan Boland is a passionate software developer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is working as a Rails developer at a consultancy where he helps entrepreneurs realize their ideas through code. When he isn't working, you can find him hacking on his embedded programming projects, watching The Wire, or going for a bike ride. You can check out his blog at https://ryanboland.com (https://ryanboland.com/)