[Gghc-discuss] Electronics coming today and working sessions

[Chris Ritzo]

I actually grabbed the description off of Jonathan's blog post and sent that
to her. I think that will make sense to her and if not, the conversation
will likely generate a list of "suggested documentation" needs that would
support using Duinolabs in an education setting. I'm hoping she'll be
willing to let us quote/record her too, but I thought I'd wait to see if her
reaction was positive first and then approach the subject.

I'll keep folks posted on this as I know the timeline is coming down to the
wire. What is the deadline again?

Thanks,
Chris

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Erich Heine <sophacles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> This is awesome. The stuff that exists is still minimal, but I am willing
> to write up anything else as needed.
>
> Perhaps you can suggest a list of docs, etc that would help her understand,
> and we can start gathering them?
>
> Regards,
> Erich
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> If we can connect, I'd like to see if my friend Lisa would sit down with a
>> description of the prototype and the prototype itself to give feedback on
>> it. We could capture her thoughts as a STEM educator for UI Extension to
>> support it's efficacy in the classroom or in after school programs.
>>
>> Is there a description of it already written?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Manton <jmanton at illinois.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> The electronics for the prototype are arriving today (a day early).  I'm
>>> going to go to the fablab around 4:15-ish to make some breakout circuit
>>> boards so we can connect to the arduinos with ribbon cable (I have ribbon
>>> cable and connectors and headers).  I'd appreciate company/help from anyone
>>> that can show up.  I'll have my acrylic too, if anyone wants to work on the
>>> front panel/case design.
>>>
>>> I'll be adjourning to the makerspace whenever it works for everyone else
>>> to start putting the circuit together, and to sort of merge in with the
>>> Thursday open hours (are there Thursday open hours?).  There is plenty of
>>> work for multiple people - we could probably have 3 people working at the
>>> same time on getting the prototype together.
>>>
>>> Anyone who wants to work on this stuff send an email to the list saying
>>> when you are available and what type of stuff you want to work on.
>>>
>>> Hopefully we'll be able to start doing software on the actual hardware
>>> later tonight.  I'm pretty excited :-)
>>>
>>> As a side note - does anyone have any logarithmic potentiometers?  The
>>> value isn't as important (10K or 100K or whatever) as the fact that it is
>>> logarithmic.  We need 2, one for the microphone (to set gain) and one for
>>> the speaker (to control volume).  U of I EE stores didn't have any.  It
>>> isn't a big deal, we can always order some, but it would allow us to get the
>>> audio pieces working in the prototype.
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