Posted by Dave Ingram, Thursday 13th November 2008 @ 5:13pm
I want to push ahead with planning and building the Disco Dance Floor. I've had a sudden burst of enthusiasm for it, and so let's get things rolling. I'm considering running the first HackWeekend meetup during a weekend in late January. As many people live in the Southampton area (or are from there), I think it makes sense to hold it there. We may be able to use a school's design/technology rooms, but that will have to be organised with them once we get the date fixed.
Things that need doing for the Disco Dance Floor project:
- Planning/designing/building the physical module (excluding electronics). This mainly includes the wooden frame, but also consideration of how we will link multiple modules together and deal with distributing power.
- Planning/designing/building the circuit for each module
- Planning/designing the PCB (after the circuit is complete, of course)
- Planning/designing/building the firmware
- Planning/designing/building the controller software
Here's a list of skills that would be useful for this project (but only the first is essential):
- Enthusiasm!
- Physical design
- Woodworking skill/knowledge
- Electronics knowledge
- Soldering (especially fine-detail)
- Software design/engineering
- Firmware engineering
- USB knowledge
- PCB layout experience
- User interface design
- Project management/organisation
So email me and let me know which task or tasks you're interested in. All of the information above will be on the project page: http://groupspaces.com/hackweekend/pages/projects/ddf/. I will also be adding people to the list of participants when they reply. Finally, I will create a mailing list just for the people interested in this project, to keep things organised.
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