[Swansea Hackspace] Kit,money,turning up :)

[Emyr Morris]

there is a box full of Arduinos available for members to buy at the
HackSpace...

£5 each (comes with a nice sexy USB cable too)

One of the benefits of membership - bulk buy power and the sharing of
knowledge of how to source things cheaper (collectively) and learning from
the experience of grand masters like JM ;-)

Arduino is a good way to start programming, C based so it would be
familiar. Disadvantage of Pi is that the GPIO pins are wired directly to
the CPU and you could damage it with careless electronic build

The Arduino is VERY robust... I have done many stupid things with mine and
to date I have failed to destroy a single Arduino

There are lots of tutorials for Arduino, check the learning/tutorials
sections here htttp://arduino.cc/

Emyr


On 9 July 2014 10:06, Ian Bullfrog <sevendev.tk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, a few questions and stuff.
>
> Sorry about missing the grand launch-Im pretty crap with dates and unless
> I get prodded before and then on the day, I tend to miss things. nuts. feel
> free to prod me when things are on :)
>
> so,
> kit
>
> Arduino, or Raspberry pi or both>?
> Is there a preference of one over the other and why or whatever.IVe just
> picked up a book from Pontardawe library on the Pi and programming it in
> Python. Id like to try and learn Python, so that seems like a reasonable
> excuse to git it a try :)
>
> which to get?
>
> there are several Arduino boards that I have seen, not sure about
> raspberry pi,
> but
> I checked out maplins, then ebay (of course) big price difference. Do you
> guys also have a favourite source or can supply them yourselves from
> somewhere too?
>
> Money.
> can I pop along to a view events/meetins first to check that I like the
> set up and that I dont annoy you more than I usually annoy people? as the
> first meet would be a 20 quid sign up , then a tenner for the month.
> both reasonable I guess, to pay bills etc, but Id rather spend it on a
> micro board, so that i could ACTUALLY do something with you guys :) then if
> I get along, Ill have to get a job, sell a child, ebay my life away in
> order to attend regularly :)
> Im also a bit of a traveller so tend to be away and this can mess up
> continuity etc.
> I missed the 14 months of gelling and stuff first and just rolled in as
> you got the space.
>
> curses. - I missed the printer workshop on saturday. still , I now know
> where the venue is ( on paper) are there people milling around during the
> day or whatever as I will be going down to dragon art centre to do
> photography today so could check it out then. thats about 10.30 till 12ish.
>
> and so finally, well done on getting it together! :)
> I'll try and set alarms , cattle prods, paint signs on my front door and
> inside of my eyelids in order to turn up to the next meeing, as I dont use
> facebook or twitter, email is the way.feel free to annoy me about meeting
> times and venues.
>
> ps does anyone fancy going to that techie festival that someone posted a
> link too on here?
> -I think you get an Arduino board with an LCD display as a name badge that
> tells you whats going on too.
> not sure if thats yours to keep after or you hand it back in, but sounds
> interesting anyway.
>
> long mail huh?
> :)
>
> ciao for now
> Schpengle
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