Workshop - Galileo stage & workshop 2 area
Arduino and the Internet of Things: How to connect to/from almost anywhere

IoT is a computing paradigm that is being explored lately by many research laboratories and universities around the world. It tries to bring to life the idea that everything can be connected to the internet: your microwave and your car, passing by your door lock and your bike at the gym. All those objects should be able of talking to each other in some way and exchange data to offer people better ways to handle different situations. M2M is concerned with the connectivity between devices using wireless, wired or hybrid communication. In a sense, M2M makes IoT possible as it offers the infrastructure for devices to gather data and transmit it through a network to a remote location. For some people M2M is a synonym of telemetry in whatever form, but in recent years the concept has mutated to refer mostly to wireless communication and to be more specific it is mostly referring to the use of cellular (mobile) communication for remotely controlling devices. During this workshop you will learn how to connect sensor to the Internet and how to make intelligent objects that gather information from any web 2.0 website and use it to remotely control devices. You don't need to have any previous knowledge in computing or hardware but it would be good if you came in knowing something in advance.

Speakers:

David Cuartielles (@dcuartielles). Co-founder of the Arduino Prototyping Platform, Research Fellow Medea Studio, Malmo, Sweden.

Fransisco Javier Zorzano (@zorzano). Director of the Physical Internet Laboratory at Telefónica Digital, Madrid, Spain.

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Ubiquitous hardware you have never hacked

Despite current discussions about open hardware, it appears obvious that many everyday technologies remain highly proprietary. Ubiquitous areas such as thin films (which modern touchscreens depend on), spintronics (which enable high-capacity hard disks) and logic design techniques (used to build microprocessors) remain carefully avoided by most hardware hackers. This lecture will give a rapid overview of a few such topics, and point out DIY and open source projects going in their direction. It will also present the Exceptionally Hard and Soft Meeting, to be held in Berlin on December 28-30, 2012 and aimed at raising awareness about those technologies and building open source communities around them.

Speaker: Sébastien Bourdeauducq is an inventor passionate about science, electronics and open source. After working for several small companies - which included developing the Wi-Fi stack and driver for the Nabaztag/tag - he founded Milkymist in the summer of 2007. This endeavour combined his interest for the world of music with the desire to learn about and open up system-on-chip design. It has now grown into a full-fledged open source community developing industrial-grade hardware. Since 2011, he is also providing electronics engineering services to great scientific and open source projects such as CERN's open hardware repository and the Rhino software-defined radio platform.

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The Raspberry Pi computer

Every year Moore's Law gives us more transistors for the same money and these are used to provide `more' facilities. Every year computer hardware and software becomes more `boxed' and less open for learning how to program. The Raspberry Pi is a reaction: it exposes a one-Watt CPU and graphics card with linux support for US$25/US$35. I explain why and how we did this, why it is important, and some fun things which have already been done. Come and join the Raspberry Pi community.

There are associated practical sessions (Daniel Bates) on using the Raspberry Pi for Robotics in the Workshop areas.

Speaker: Alan Mycroft. Raspberry Pi Foundation and University of Cambridge

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Sonic Cyborg (demo-performance)

Last year, Berlin based artist Onyx Ashanti presented a challenge to himself toward the end of his much discussed TED Presentation, "This is Beatjazz": to MAKE the future happen! by way of a 3-way wireless midi controller he designed and built out of cardboard and arduinos. since then the scope of the project has expanded to other concepts he is pioneering such as gestural performance sound design, 3d printed "sonic prosthetics", and integrating dance into sonic creation, all open source and evolving at an increasing rate. To demonstrate the full potential of the beatjazz construct, he will be premiering the latest, full open source iteration of his beatjazz system, as a combined performance AND presentation, using this new mode of expression to blur the distinctions of both.

Speaker: Onyx Ashanti, Sonic Cyborg. 

Onyx Ashanti will be helping 3D workshop participants print out models on 4 RepRap printers all Saturday in the Workshop area!

Workshop - Workshop 1 area
Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi

Learn how to sense and control the physical world using computer programs running on the inexpensive and low-power Raspberry Pi. After a brief introduction on how to interact with the outside world, campuseros are free to explore and be inventive, or follow a selection of tutorials. Raspberry Pis and a range of sensors, motors, robots and USB devices will be made available, and campuseros are encouraged to bring along any additional components which they would like to connect.

Requirements: Some programming experience (preferably in Python) is a prerequisite for this workshop. There are many websites and books available with Python tutorials if you want to brush up beforehand (e.g. www.codecademy.com). Please bring a 4G SD card and a micro USB power adapter if you would like to participate, we have a limited amount to lend.

Coaches: Daniel Bates, Olly Andrade, Alex Lee

Workshop- Workshop 1 area
The Sonic Cyborg Workshop

Ever wanted to attach sensors to yourself and make music? to BE a sonic cyborg? Onyx Ashanti, full time sonic cyborg, inventor and creator of Beatjazz, will, over the course of two hours, take you through many of the most importatn processes he has discovered over the last few years of investigation into this new field, using free and open hardware and software.

In the first hour you will look more deeply into what it is you want to say thru digital interfacing, and we will look into the many ways to use sensors and open source software, Pure Data, to realize your vision. Then in the second hour we will look at ways of using CAD and 3d printing to design and create custom prosthetics that fit the exact criteria that is neccessary for your mode of expression. You will leave with custom sensor abstractions for pure data, and templates for designing prosthetics that will allow you to express yourself in ways not before imagined.

Speaker: Onyx Ashanti, Sonic Cyborg.
Onyx Ashanti will be helping 3D workshop participants print out models on 4 RepRap printers all Saturday in the Workshop area!