looking for projects that we could help with

[Colin Rowat]

My sons (ages 13 and 10) have a week’s school vacation in the middle of February.  I am trying to find out whether there might be any projects at hackerspaces that could benefit from some volunteers for a few days.

 

We have fairly basic skills – some soldering (through hole and surface mount), fabrication, 3-d printing, laser cutting, basic programming…  Our most successful project to date was a simple brain-computer interface (see https://icibici.github.io/site/).  We are interested in getting started with software defined radio.

 

If you knew of anyone with interesting projects that we might be able to help with, I would be grateful to hear from you.

 

Thank you,

 

Colin Rowat

[Joyce D]

Hi Colin!

My 14 year old daughter will be visiting hackerspace for the first time at the open houses on Tuesday and Thursday next week. 

Will you be there? It would be fun for her to meet other 'teens' who are interested in working on projects in the space.

Her background is more in robotics.

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[Colin Rowat]

Hi Joyce,

 

Thanks for your e-mail!

We don’t live in Taiwan, so are looking for somewhere to visit during their February ½ term school break (18 – 22 Feb).

 

We’d started going to the London Hackspace years ago after my daughter and I visited one of their open nights – she had a fantastic time, and we were hooked.  I hope that your daughter has a similarly good time.

 

Best,

 

Colin

[Joyce D]

Hopefully, she'll have a similarly great experience Tuesday and Thursday this coming week.  She'll be visiting the Hackerspace with one of her 'local' friends. 

We're in town Feb 18-22, but she's got class from 10-2. If you want to meet at the Hackerspace after 2 that week, it'd be fun to put a project together.

Let me know if you come to Taipei!

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[Patrick Connolly]

This whole thread is heartwarming. That is all :)

-patcon

[Colin Rowat]

Thank you Patrick and Joyce.

Actually, here's another possibility: would anyone be interested in working with us on building an AI to play the board game Diplomacy that week (18 - 22 Feb)?

Initially, there are hard-coded bots in Java that we can start with (as part of an annual competition).  Eventually, we'd like to introduce proper reinforcement learning.

Here are some slides introducing the project: http://www.wrongdoing.org/181004_Diplomacy_AI.pdf.  We gave a 'lightning talk' over the summer on this: https://youtu.be/Ojpn3UXZuGM?t=1033 ?

Best,

Colin

[Joyce D]

My daughter, Julia and I, definitely would be interested in working on this with you.  

[Colin Rowat]

Thanks Joyce.

We'd need someone with more software skills than I have.  Specifically, we'd need someone with some Java (Eclipse is the IDE used in the documentation for the current bot framework) and machine-learning (I don't know which of TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch... makes the most sense) experience.

If my sons were up for this (I'm predicting a split vote right now), I'd be happy to help pay for someone with these skills - but suspect that the key would be to find the right person: someone willing to work with children; someone willing to work for less than their market rate.

I don't know how to find someone in Taipei who could help us.  Would you have any suggestions?  I'm happy to write people and describe what we'd need.

Best,

Colin

[Shelandy Ting]

Welcome.
ML for 13 and 10 could be tough, however, if they know basic stuffs, we can discuss these while your trip in Taipei.  There is a nice garden on top of Taipei hacker space.   Since you guys know SDR, one possible short project is to make a non-wifi (for very long distance) IOT monitoring station to transmit garden's info to web server.  Of cause, there are some toy cars over there waiting for converting into wireless controlled car.  3D printers waiting for adding camera monitoring capacity,... We can discuss further...       

Colin Rowat於 2019年1月9日星期三 UTC+8上午11時54分06秒寫道：

[Shelandy Ting]

Welcome.
What I have told to Colins also applies to you.  Your daughter's backgroud and interest are different than theirs.  However, I believe we can work on something that everyone can participate and enjoy.  There is a sewing machine and a CNC.  For a girl interesting in robotics, I was wondering if she will like to work on enhance tools, for example, make the sewing machine computer controlled, or add something for 3D printer?  We can discuss fiurther      

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[Yusuke Dada K]

丁先生你好，

2/22 (六) 的話，白天會在 Keyholder ，可以利用 Hackerspace 。

目前在內部確認 2/18 (二) ~ 2/21 (五) 的 14:00 以後 Keyholder 會不會在 HS ，如果在可以使用 Hackerspace 。

另外，這邊有了【Taipei Hackerspace 小朋友利用原則】這文件，請注意參考：

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZm6HZ_EOPObZQICXE9Br9eIJWvHhjpiv3HqaTk1a0I/edit?usp=sharing

 yusuke

Shelandy Ting於 2020年2月8日星期六 UTC+8上午2時55分33秒寫道：

[Yusuke Dada K]

丁先生你好，

2/18~2/22 期間白天的話，除了 2/20 之外，有 Key holder 會在 HS 。

我該先跟你說抱歉，因爲我的英文能力問題，可能看錯上面有些人在談的內容。

我本來以爲在 2/18~2/22 期間內有些外國人士拜訪 Taipei Hackerspace (HS)，

不知道是否那樣。

因爲我們團體內目前英文話者不多，所以如果他們在那段時間真的會來到 HS，

還是我想請你幫忙迎接他們。

謝謝

 yusuke

Yusuke Dada K於 2020年2月11日星期二 UTC+8下午9時38分26秒寫道：

[Shelandy Ting]

The keyholder at day time will be there Feb 18~22, except for 20.

 I certainly will be there 18th and 21st afternoon.  The rest of days depends on my available schedule.   If help are needed, I may come more often during those time.
Mr .Yusuke Kokubu has reminded that there are guarding rules for children.  I will translate it in to English and post in a separated post.

Regards

Colin Rowat於 2019年1月5日星期六 UTC+8上午5時05分21秒寫道：