Deadline approaching.. 17th July.

[lat...@bur.st]

So the deadline is rapidly approaching.

I am keen to push this forward myself.. any other that are actively
interested in doing the legwork and presenting/putting it together?

I might start writing up a proposal.. based on the DX stuff I think it
is completely workable financially. I think the main trouble will be
getting the word out to the participants, etc.

- Trent

[andyg (geekscape)]

hi All,

On Jul 13, 3:05 pm, "lath...@bur.st" <lath...@bur.st> wrote:
> So the deadline is rapidly approaching.

Yes ... and at a scary rate !

> I am keen to push this forward myself.. any other that are actively
> interested in doing the legwork and presenting/putting it together ?

Recently, Luke Weston designed and created a prototype board for an
Arduino shield that contains an LCD, Zigbee, sensors and relays.

The project artifacts, including board description and schematics, can
be found on GitHub ...
http://github.com/lukeweston/ArduinoSensorLCDShield

Here is a photograph of the working prototype ...
http://twitpic.com/9lhj8

This is currently running the Aiko (event driven Arduino framework)
software ...
http://github.com/geekscape/Aiko

This project is along the lines discussed for the Arduino Open
Hardware mini-conference in previous emails. Something that could be
built in the morning and used for software applications in the
afternoon. These boards could also be pre-built for those not
comfortable making hardware (or who don't complete the morning session
with a working board).

I'm happy to help flesh-out the proposal in whatever direction we all
agree. And, also happy to commit to helping out with the morning
session and preparing a software application tutorial for the
afternoon.

Note: Even if the LCA submission is based on what we have now ... I'm
sure that we'd iterate and make improvements over the next 5 or so
months.

cheers andyg (geekscape)

[Jonathan Oxer]

Hi Trent,

> I am keen to push this forward myself.. any other that are actively
> interested in doing the legwork and presenting/putting it together?

Definitely. I let things sit for a bit but prompted by your email (and
private email from Phil and others) I've just done a rough draft of a
proposal. It's on the Google Group now as a page.

Cheers :-)
--
Jonathan Oxer
Ph +61 4 3851 6600
Geek My Ride! <http://www.geekmyride.org/>

[Jonathan Oxer]

On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 22:35 -0700, andyg (geekscape) wrote:

> Recently, Luke Weston designed and created a prototype board for an
> Arduino shield that contains an LCD, Zigbee, sensors and relays.

The draft miniconf proposal mentions assembly of a shield, and that's
exactly the shield I happened to have in mind.