ABOUT ARDUINO/GENUINO DAY
Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s 12th birthday on 2 April 2016. Globally, it's 24 hours full of events, and we are hosting the third Wellington edition in the MDI Lab of Victoria University's School of Design.
Arduino/Genuino Day is a free and open event.
We know there is lots of making happening in Wellington - it doesn’t matter whether you are an expert or a newbie, an engineer, designer, crafter or maker: Arduino/Genuino Day is open to anyone who wants to celebrate Arduino and all the things that have been done (or can be done!) with it.
HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?
Arduino/Genuino Day is a free event: Anyone interested in physical computing, all makers, designers, artists, hackers, geeks of all ages and levels of expertise are welcome to join us. There will be talks, demos, show&tell, workshops and discussion.
Come and spend the day with us and have fun with microcontrollers!
Feel free to bring along your own kit and showcase your work, ask questions, present your ideas in a lightning talk.
Contacts:
walter.langelaar@vuw.ac.nz -------------------------------- anne.niemetz@vuw.ac.nz
Arduino Day Wellington
Saturday 2 April
1 - 5 pm
School of Design
MDI Lab
139 Vivian Street
Te Aro
Wellington 6011
entrance on Dunlop Terrace
the MDI Lab is on the
2nd Floor of the Wigan Building
PROGRAMME
___ 1pm: START!
___ 1.15pm: Intro + welcome by Walter Langelaar from VUW School of Design
___ 1.30pm: presentations by Anne Niemetz, Peter O’Dowd, Birgit Bachler, Chris Caukwell
___ 3pm: open session with project demos, discussion and workshops
___ 4.30pm: wrap-up, catch-up and networking/future plans
Similar to last years Arduino Day, we are running the second part of the afternoon session in typical 'unconference' style, which means we will have a whiteboard up from the start of the day where everybody can sign up for a time slot to demo a project, discuss a certain topic, or give a short workshop.
We will have different spaces available in our MDI Lab for this, and workstations (Mac/OSX) for demoing projects. If you want to bring your project along for showcasing, please prepare to give a brief intro of 5-10 minutes, which can be followed by another 5 minutes of Q&A.
The time available for the Open Session is between 3pm and 4.30pm, and please get in on time to allocate your project slot on the board!
SPEAKERS
Anne Niemetz presents on the “Wearable Technology” courses and programme at VUW School of Design, and recent work involving the Arduino platform.
Anne holds the positions of Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of the Media Design department at VUW School of Design.
Peter O’Dowd will present and demo his “Waveophone”, an instrument that has three physical strings strung over a bridge with 12 frets, similar to guitar. The strings are plucked by triggering sensors on the hand rest and the pitch is determined by the distance between the performers other hand and an ultrasound sensor.
“The Internet of Wild Things” - in this talk Birgit Bachler, PhD researcher at the VUW School of Design will discuss the complex nature of networks for interspecies communication. Birgit Bachler is an Austrian new media artist, designer and researcher with a background in interactive, audiovisual art, design and programming.
Chris Caukwell will showcase and demo several of his homemade guitar pedals, some of which he recently donated to the Wellington Musical Electronics Library (MEL). The first Musical Electronics Library (and first of its kind in the world) was started in Auckland in 2014 by Pat Kraus and a group of makers, and the Wellington MEL is a recently spawned satellite of this – hosted at the Pyramid Club on Taranaki Street.
