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Edison Board training course and IOT Hackathon
13 Oct - 06:00 PM
Exeter, United Kingdom
Go from novice to maker on Intel's Edison board in 6 weeks with our FREE training course. Delivered in partnership with Intel, IBM and FABLABUK https://www.fablabdevon.org/fablabdevon-team-up-with-fablab-uk-intel-and-ibm/
The Edison Boardis designed for expert makers, entrepreneurs, and industrial IoT companies, the Intel® Edison module provides ease-of-development with a fully open source hardware and software development environment for a range of products.
It Features:
A high-performance, dual-core CPU and single-core microcontroller
Integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth* 4.0 support, 1 GB DDR and 4 GB FLASH memory
40 multiplexed GPIO interfaces with expansion board options
The Course
Dates
5 sessions will be run in the FabLab at Exeter Library on Tuesday evenings from 18:00 - 19:00 on:
Tuesday 13th, 20th, and 27th of October
Tuesday 3rd, and 10th November
The course will culminate in an IOT Hackathon:
Thursday 26th November from 10:00 - 17:00 in FabLab Devon.
Outline of the course structure
Open to ages 17+ for anyone who would like to learn and develop the Edison Board
Will allow you to get access to the Edison board, Seed GROVE Starter kit, development tools and software.
Over the 5 sessions will deliver content from powering on the board, using simple IO and network connection to using complex cloud services for storing data collected using Edison on BlueMix.
There may be homework set.
Once you've completed your training you can get creative, use the skills you've learnt and network at our IOT Hackathon on 26th Nov 2015 from 10:00 - 17:00. This will be coordinated with FabLabs in London, Belfast, Manchester and Leeds. Food and drinks will be provided to keep you energised while you Hack and there will be prizes to give away.
*Please register once per person, by registering you are confirming attendance at all dates given above.