July 12-14 at UIC
Location: UIC campus, Science and Engineering Offices (SEO) building at 851 S. Morgan Street. (See map)
We will be in room 1000, which is the conference room on the west end of the 10th floor.
Park at the lot on the northeast corner of Halsted and Taylor. Pull a ticket when you enter, and the sticker we give you will get you out for free.
We will meet 9:00am - 3:00pm on Tuesday and Wednesday and 9:00am to Noon on Thursday. Lunch will be provided on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Acceptances have been emailed out. If you haven't received an email or if you are still interested in attending the workshop, please email Mitch at mtheys@uic.edu
Overview:
We will be using Particle Photons, an arduino based micro-controller, to collect environmental data and learn how data collection and analysis can be used in participant's classrooms. The Photon was chosen because of its native ability to connect to the Internet and Particle’s cloud-based IDE that allows one to push code to the device from anywhere in the world.
To Do Before the arriving Tuesday July 12th
Complete the pre-assessment questionaire from google, which can be found at this link: https://goo.gl/forms/yPKnJDguEb
Download the Particle Application for your smartphone
To make development easier, a terminal window emulator of some kind would be useful
Windows: Tera Term - http://download.cnet.com/Tera-Term/3000-20432_4-75766675.html
Mac OS X: https://www.iterm2.com/
Tentative Agenda:
Tuesday July 12 - 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Wednesday July 13 - 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Thursday July 14 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 12:00
Mini-hackathon: Complete projects,
Break (First group to present may want to cut their break a few minutes short to set up their presentation)
Presentation of projects