Takeaway Festival: Workshop Day 2

Takeaway Workshop Day 2

11.00 - 13.00 Arduino/RFID with Alex Zivanovic
11.00 - 13.00 iPhone apps with Christian Benesch
11.00 - 13.00 Creating zines using TextPattern with Olivier Ruellet

13.30 - 16.30 Arduino/RFID with Alex Zivanovic
13.30 - 16.30 iPhone apps with Christian Benesch
13.30 - 16.30 Creating zines using TextPattern with Olivier Ruellet

No pre-booking required. Sign up to workshops at Dana Centre reception from 09.00. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Arduino/RFID
Alex Zivanovic
Want to step up your Arduino know-how? Then come along and learn how you can use RFID technology with the Arduino system and how to get the Arduino to communicate with software such as Processing running on a laptop.

This workshop is for people with some experience of the Arduino system. You must bring your own laptop (Windows, Mac or Linux) with the Arduino software installed. In order to attend the afternoon session you must have attended the morning session.

iPhone apps
Christian Benesch
Take the next step towards creating that hit app as we look at iPhone-specific functionality, location-based services, tilt mechanisms and networking, as an extension of the Pong app from Workshop Day 1. The workshop will include a review of what is currently out there and discussion of how existing apps work and the capabilities they use.

In order to attend this workshop you should have knowledge of object-oriented programming, ideally C, C++, Objective C or Java.

Creating zines with TextPattern
Olivier Ruellet
Do you have a burning desire to create your own website or blog? This workshop will take you step by step through the installation, customisation and more advanced features of TextPattern, a free open-source web application for creating dynamic websites that are easily updateable, standards-compliant, RSS-able and even multilingual.

This is a demonstration session. No prior HTML/CSS skills are necessary, but a basic understanding of web-design/publishing concepts would be beneficial to follow the workshop.

Returning to the Dana Centre for a fourth year, this event is part of Takeaway Festival 2009 in collaboration with the Science Museum.

This event is part of Takeaway Festival