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
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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Hi Radomir Glad to have you on board so far!
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.
I was wondering about that too – in their 2019 booklet, everyone seemed to labeled as a company representative, but in the material about 2021 I actually find very little mention of companies. Also in the submission tool, neither the personal info form nor the event form have any company fields. But we can ask. We'd need to inquire anyway about how to handle material costs, I haven't found anything about that. And I could always pose as a representative of FabLab Winti – not really a company, but maybe close enough. If I understand correctly, there are no advance signups for workshops, so we would probably need to decide on a number of kits beforehand and stick to it, bearing the risk of too few or too many participants ourselves. On the plus side, we could do that early on and I hope that would give us enough lead time until October? I can't really judge, I have no experience with the chip shortage myself. I could write up a draft inquiry about all these things and we can discuss it before I send it off? -Christian
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