Mitch Altman

About

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman

TV-B-Gone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone

Adafruit kit [1]

2019 Talk at Google

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Conversation

Jun 2, 2020

• Jul 25-Aug 2, 2020. People can help make videos. 40 mintues, prerecorded. + 10 min Q&A
• Live MC for the prerecorded talks
• Peer moderators
• Big Blue Button - definitely does same quality of size - Zoom Like - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBlueButton
• Server limit - Big Blue - Appo - Belgium -
• 2 hr Arduino lesson
• There's a workshop, Arduino for Total Newbies - https://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects/tvbg_arduino/tvbg_arduino_workshop.php. Like this but minus 1.5 hours of soldering.
• 45 minutes on electronics - 45 minutes thaqt
• Software and blinking an LED. Or motor. Or speaker for sound. Or a TB-B-Gone. So enough
• Worst case is solderless breadboard.
• Bootloader pre-programmed. So what we want to use Arduino
• FTDI cable - FTDI is the first company that made USB-serial converters. RS232 - was the 3 then 9 pins.
• $5 boards - http://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/products/buy.php?productId=usbcable&PHPSESSID=320k2jrt5abmcpcnj09422alh0
• Silicon Labs - has the USB-serial converters. Good company.

Tue Feb 4, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVOV5aml5z4

• Come up with a first draft of Cordless Drill challenge, after some comments from Mitch.
• STEAM Camp Schedule
• Mitch can do it anywhere. By the time we publicize, we have an outline. Cost structure. First 4 days are more stuctured. Then rest can be more outlined in a vague way. We have an exammple project that we want to kick off.
• OSE Collaboration Protocol
• https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/January_2020_STEAM_Camp#Program
• Curriculum for September 1. Start with a curriculum. Then put out the word massively.
• Hackerspace Ghent. Good place to have as well. All bunch of spacers.
• 50 people max event - with Mitch.
• Sep 1-9. For Mitch Altman. Member of small hackerspace. More people. In Wales - there are 2 chapels. Chapels there. Economy depressed since mining. Cheap to buy. 50k pounds each. Astroship - super fun, voyage. .
• 10,000 units sold per year - plus several thousand kits sold per year. 700k sold.
• Share this with some friends.
• People interested in this? Hundreds of Hackerspaces all around.
• TV-B-Gone - 2004. So explore the possibility of making a living from a project they love.
• Arduino from kit, basic electronics, TVBgone. Charges materials and low cost.
• Platform like Github that they contribute to - contributions that are redeemed for value
• Solution - communities all over the place, all helping each other. Large or small, supporting each other.
• Bucky Fuller
• 13 years - hackerspaces - 1000s of these. Challenging. We need these more than ever.
• Community - as physical community.
• Rural areas it's challenging to meet. Internet as a tool.