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= Workshop CATkit in Huddersfield = 

''2-3-4 July 2007
Bates Mill, Huddersfield, UK''

CATkit is a 3 day workshop dedicated to physical computing. During the workshop you’ll learn how to use the CATkit board to create small stand alone objects that use sensors, knobs and switches to generate sound. The workshop is based on 100% FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) and open hardware. You’ll go home with the board and all the software you need to keep building.

Teachers: Tom Schouten, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk

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== Workshop Schedule ==

 * DAY1 - HARDWARE Quick introduction to electronics: batteries, digital zeros and ones, voltage and current, resistors, capacitors and microcontroller.
    * What is a sensor and how they work. Review of different types of sensors: digital (switches, phototransistor) and analog (potentiometer, LDR)
    * Building the CATkit: how to solder, how to put components on a board, how to not hurt yourself and fry components
    * ping ! First contact with board

 * DAY2 - SOFTWARE Introduction to FORTH: the stacks, first words, the dictionnary
    * Proof of concept: How to make a blinking LED
    * Learning the environment and the application: write some scripts to control a simple audio synthesizer

 * DAY3 - PROJECTS individual project day: try to design a simple interactive system with the help of the teachers

''This workshop is brought to you by GOTO10 and the Digital Research Unit which has commissioned a prototype of CATkit as part of its support for GOTO10’s Packets project.''