That seems like an excellent idea! One thing I am a bit concerned about is that in all their materials, they talk about companies doing the talks and the workshops — not sure if individuals can apply as well. As for partially assembled PewPews, Makerfas can make anything we specify (I was also thinking about making a version with through-hole buttons, because I found some really nice buttons like that), with the caveat that the unit price will depend on the order size. I think the PewPews they sell in their online shop are produced 100 at a time, so fewer than that would be a bit more expensive. And of course we also need to consider the lead times and the current shortages of chips. For a smaller number of units (10-20), I can easily make them myself (after all it would be only 4 components to solder). That would let us avoid the problem with chip shortages and order sizes, though we would still need some lead time to order the PCBs, buttons and LED matrices. On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 23:35:30 +0200 Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch> wrote:
I was recently pointed to this:
https://cdn.vis.ethz.ch/vc2/2021/call-for-proposals.pdf https://viscon.vis.ethz.ch
The association of computer science students (VIS) of ETH Zürich is organizing a conference in October with talks and workshops with the general goal of showing students exciting computer applications that they don't typically learn about in their studies.
Anyone up for proposing a PewPew workshop together? (Radomir in particular, but maybe there are others in the vicinity.)
Provided of course that face-to-face workshops are safely possible again by then, I think that would fit nicely into their "interdisciplinary" track. Especially if it can include soldering one's own device (as we did at Flick the World) and connecting electronics (as we did at EuroPython), which are probably things many computer scientists don't encounter during their studies, while Python and game programming may be more familiar. (Can you get half-assembled PewPew Standalones from Makerfabs?)
-Christian
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