Classroom HackSpaceChallenge/Report/4

Brief

Is everything going to plan? Perhaps provide footage of a visit to an educational institution you’re working with.

Draft

There was not much to report for a while. The software is somewhat complete, we have the backend of a multiple choice quiz system (using python and Twisted), it is not pretty and lots of work needs to be done on presentation. It also has a web based buzzer simulator so we could test the

Bank holidays have conspired against us working with an educational establishment, I had hoped to demo it to a school, but the Royal Wedding means there won't be time before the dead line.

Unfortunately our electronics guy had an unexpectedly busy period with work and his other projects, so progress hasn't been as quick as it could have been.

We do have a some progress, a pcb for an arduino shield that houses an rfm12 and an LED driver for the handset hubs. We also are working on the design of the PCB for the handset. These are very simple, just a voltage divider so we can tell what button was pressed and a RGB LED. Once these are done, it will just be a matter of soldering up some PCBs and coding up the simple software to control the arduinos.

We also have a few cunningly designed laser cut housings (mdf to keep the price down) for the various handsets

Things have got busy at the last moment, hopefully we will get it finished, but it will be down to the last day.