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Let me introduce, myself, your blog writer for today, eb4890, aka Will. | Let me introduce, myself, your blog writer for today, eb4890, aka Will. | ||
It has been a busy week at london hackspace. We instituted the 24 hour rule on Tuesday, which meant that if 24 hours went by without any discussion of the project then the project with the most votes would be picked. The projects discussed in the following | It has been a busy week at london hackspace. We instituted the 24 hour rule on Tuesday, which meant that if 24 hours went by without any discussion of the project then the project with the most votes would be picked. The projects discussed in the following 27 hours were an Opensource Spectrometer and open source buzzer system to allow children to give feedback to the teacher. We finally settled on the buzzer project. | ||
That accomplished we swiftly set about ordering components and doing some initial | That accomplished we swiftly set about ordering components and doing some initial designing. We are designing it via wiki. | ||
http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Classroom_HackSpaceChallenge/Buzzers | |||
Details are tenuous, but we are thinking of a 4 button dumb buzzer system, with multiple of them wired to a hub, this then talks wireless-ly with a teachers terminal that is connected to a computer. | |||
Follow us on [https://github.com/eb4890/lhsgghc github] to see the code/designs as it happens. | |||
I also had an interesting time trying to skype on my mobile phone to Mark and the crew from the States. Quite often I thought that R2D2 had hacked into the phone call and was not at all happy with me for some reason. After some conversation we ended up agreeing that email was far more reliable. | |||
Ciarán got lumbered with the finance officer and is busy figuring out how to get the stipend transferred to us. | |||
I note one of you has his hand and wants to ask a question. Go ahead. "What is our hackerspace's philosophy?" you ask. Well I'm glad you asked that question as I was struggling to come up with an un-contrived way to work this into a blog post. You really saved my bacon. Well our hackspace can been summed up with three sayings. | I note one of you has his hand and wants to ask a question. Go ahead. "What is our hackerspace's philosophy?" you ask. Well I'm glad you asked that question as I was struggling to come up with an un-contrived way to work this into a blog post. You really saved my bacon. Well our hackspace can been summed up with three sayings. | ||
