Beginner Arduino mini-workshop (make a glow-worm!)

Want to learn the basics of making with Arduino? This mini-workshop is for you!

This brief event will let you build "glow-worms" with the Arduino Micro and Gemma boards. The Gemma is actually a wearable board that you can sew onto clothes! You will learn the basic of hooking up (including sewing!) the Micro and Gemma to LEDs and programming it.

Why glow-worms? This mini-workshop is inspired by the Into the Night project at UCL which will culminate in nature/wellbeing activities coinciding with Earth Hour on the evening of 25 March 2017. The glow-worms you help make will take part in one of those activities, where people try to find them when the lights are switched off during Earth Hour!

WHAT TO BRING: A laptop and micro USB cable (the one you use to charge your phone with). We'll have some cables (but not laptops!) to lend too just add a comment below if you need one.

WHEN: 18:30 UTC on Tuesday 14 March 2017

WHERE: Room G23, ground floor, Pearson Building, University College London, see here for a map: http://imgur.com/a/XnqpG

Attendance is FREE OF CHARGE with LIGHT REFRESHMENTS so please sign up now! Spaces are limited. (let us know if you have specific dietary requirements)

More information: (1) The workshop is built on the basic lesson here (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoUno), but slightly expanded to teach the Arduino Micro and Gemma boards. (2) We plan to take pictures during the event, so let me know if you don't want to be photographed.

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