The class will happen April 2, 2016, which also happens to be Arduino Day.
How perfect, eh :-) https://day.arduino.cc/#/
-Geno
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Ryan J. Priore <ryan.priore@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Geno,
Yes, I can certainly float the class around the scouts for some father/son
time. Having me lead a field trip down will help with these suburbanites
that may not make it into down that often.
Ryan
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*Subject:* [hackpgh-discuss] Re: Basic Arduino Programming Class
Ryan, that would be awesome! Another thing you could do, maybe some
father's and son's in your cub scout troop are interesting in learning how
to program an arduino. Cub scout field trip to HackPGH? ;-)
-Geno
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Ryan J. Priore <ryan.priore@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I am still willing to design up a 3D printable stoplight housing once we
nail down a LED size and board layout…
Ryan
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Yes
On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Do we have red green and yellow led of the same size?
On Feb 20, 2016 9:56 AM, "Robert Berger" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have a lot of 10mm diameter LED's. Can we design the housing to use
those?
On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Or Saturday evening works too. Looks like we emailed at the same time. Haha
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Good idea. I will probably be at the shop around 8pm tonight. Maybe we can
work on it then.
-Geno
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We need to connect to different places on the Arduino header, so I was
thinking of cutting these in half and soldering the wire ends directly to
our board
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003B1XR28/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1455905127&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=male+to+male+jumper+wires
On Feb 19, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Yohe <cjyohe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the future too, if we designed the simple board for that a place like
Dirty Boards (or even OSH Park) would be a cheap way to get a bunch and it
looks like it would be a great 1st "Learn to Solder" Project. Also if the
female headers on the bottom were swapped out for male there are a bunch of
cheap ebay cable deals to wire up the interconnect from the board to the
light. I've been snagging them recently for some wiring harness work and
they seem to do ok.
Just a couple of thoughts.
Chris
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Geno,
We can use this project to teach you how to do it.
The board is so small it would probably be < 10 minutes to mill each one.
We already have lots of LED's in the shop we could use.
On Feb 19, 2016, at 11:21 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Bob if youre thinking of CNC the pcb's for the traffic lights, we would
need 10-20 of them. I don't want to overburden you with that much work. You
are the only one who knows how to do that right now.
If we bought the ones Ryan posted it would be $6 for each traffic light.
It would be nice to save $5, but its not that big a deal if it means
forcing you or someone else to manually CNC these.
Let me know what you think.
-Geno
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We can make one for about a dollar in materials
On Feb 19, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Totally awesome Ryan! You even get 2 for 12 bucks. We could 3d print a
small enclosure for it maybe. Or maybe thats not even necessary. I'm going
to go ahead and order one right now so I can begin planning the class.
Thanks for the find!
-Geno
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Ryan Priore <ryan.priore@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Geno,
I found this today while reading the latest issue of the MagPi:
http://www.amazon.com/Pi-Traffic-Light-Raspberry-pack/dp/B00RIIGD30/
I like this form factor for the traffic light less and may redesign the
traffic light enclosure on thingiverse due to its size and resulting print
time.
Ryan
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*To:* hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [hackpgh-discuss] Re: Basic Arduino Programming Class
That would be awesome Ryan! Thanks a lot! Maybe they would look better in
yellow?
-Geno
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Ryan Priore <ryan.priore@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Geno,
I like your application idea a lot! I would be happy to assist in printing
the traffic light enclosures on my printers at home as well.
Ryan
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hackpgh-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Geno Soroka
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2016 6:53 AM
*To:* hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [hackpgh-discuss] Basic Arduino Programming Class
I looked at the previous Basic Arduino class HackPGH did in the past, and
I would like to cover all the topics from the class we did in the past, but
to keep things interesting every year, present them in a different way.
My idea is this. We 3d print 2 of these for all the students.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14646
The student brings their own arduino (which they got and soldered together
at the soldering class), or just one they already have.
The object of the class will be to control two traffic lights at an
intersection. First just with timing, and then to introduce the ADC input
and map() function to have a small sensor which would make the light green
if a car just arrived at an intersection (like many real traffic lights at
quiet intersections do)
This will teach the student about basic arduino concepts such as I/O and
timing functions such as delay(). In the advanced course we can introduce
how to use interrupts for timing. And it will teach the students the basics
of ADC and very very basics of sensors, which they can learn more about in
the sensors class.
This can actually be a cool practical toy for your kid's RC cars or
hotwheels. They could even build real intersections for a small toy city. I
really wish I had this when I was 9. ;-)
If anyone has suggestions on how to make this class better, ideas to make
the traffic lights more cool, or even better 3d printed traffic lights we
could download, that would be awesome!
This class will most likely take place in April (definitely after learn to
solder)
-Geno
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