Diogenes Hackerspace

Last Edit: 20 March (Friday) @6:00a CDT

Arduino Days 2026

• https://days.arduino.cc/about
• March 27 & 28

Diogenes

• Arduino Days 2026
• March 27, 28, & 29
• 10a - 4p CDT

March 27 (Fri):

• 10a - Arduino Days 2026 Streaming - For more details please visit https://days.arduino.cc/about

• 12p - 4p - Group Arduino Automaton/Robotics Project (J. Choate) - Day 1/3

- This will be a group project where the participants pick a project goal involving control of some sort of mechanical assembly of their choosing.

- It is expected the group will break their project down into modules and then individuals or small (e.g. pairs) sub-groups will take specific modules and assemble them. The final goal will be to assemble the modules into the finished work product within the three (3) day time limit.

- We'll be using Bass/Balsa wood, plastics, foam, string, straws, etc. along with motors and solenoids. We'll have a supply stock on hand, but feel free to bring additional materials.

- Suggestions (The group has the final say in their project):

- Karakuri Ningo (からくり人形)

 Karakuri Puppet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_puppet

 Japan's Only Karakuri Doll Master. 300 Years of Exquisite Mechanical Art. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-kqpkZWjc

- Target Tracking Nerf Compatible Weapon (Diogenes will supply Nerf ammo)

- da Vinci Mechanism

- Lego Technic - Mindstorms Robotics

 Lego Technic -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Technic

 Lego Mindstorms -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms

March 28 (Sat):

• 10a - Arduino Days 2026 Streaming - For more details please visit https://days.arduino.cc/about

• 10a - 12p - HABEX Monthly Update - "Arduino & LoRaWAN" - Seeeduino LoRaWAN (J. Choate) - Hands-on pair/group. (HABEX - High Altitude Balloon EXperiment)

- The first hour will be a presentation of the HABEX2 project and the hardware.

- The second hour will be a hands on familiarization with the SEEEDuino LoRaWAN board. I have 3x boards. You'll need a computer with the Arduino IDE installed to program them. The first two basic examples, blink and GPS, are the intended targets.

- https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Seeeduino_LoRAWAN/ (Be sure to visit this page and become familiar with it. It is critical to success in working with the two examples.)

• 12p - 1p - "Fencing buddies" Arduino Project Presentation (T. Aarush)

- The first 5 mins will be an explanation of the various aspects of fencing buddies.

- The next 10 mins will be a deep dive into how the ultrawide band technology works.

- The next 20 mins will be for Q/A

- 10 mins for buffer

• 12p - 4p - Group Arduino Automaton/Robotics Project (J. Choate) - Day 2/3

• 1p - 3p - "Beginner git User Intro" (Daniel Morely)

- This is intended for persons who have no experience using change management in their programming.

- Participants will need to have git installed on their laptop before the presentation (or arrive early to install it).

- All git operations will be on your local machine, no network services or 3rd party software or libraries are required.

March 29 (Sun):

• 10a - 12p - Wanna get Weird? Plan 9 on Raspberry Pi (J. Choate) - Hands-on as you will need a Raspberry Pi, SD Card, & Computer

- Plan 9 Installation on Raspberry Pi 3 -- https://web.archive.org/web/20200111162735/http://ssz.com/Projects/RPi_Plan9_Install.html

- Plan 9 available -- https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=24480

- Plan 9 operating system for the Raspberry Pi – demonstration by Richard Miller -- https://raspi.tv/2012/plan-9-operating-system-for-the-raspberry-pi-demonstration-by-richard-miller

- 9Front -- https://9front.org/

• 12p - 4p - Group Arduino Automaton/Robotics Project (J. Choate) - Day 3/3

To Do:

- We're looking for more volunteers to suggest their own project ideas or willing to work on the ones below...

• ESP32 (We have several ESP32s and ESP32 WROOM boards available)

• BeagleV-Fire (Has RISC-V w/ on SOC FPGA) - I (J. Choate) have one board and have done a couple of projects with it, very beginner. The toolchain for this is mostly provided by Beagle online (though I do have the toolchain installed locally as well). Not sure I'll have time to do something with it by the event dates.

• Arduino Uno Q - I (J. Choate) have one board but not sure if I'll have time to do something with it by the event dates.

• The Linux Build System - A High Level Introduction - 2 hrs. - Presentation w/ discussion

Notes:

• We have a DTEN DTX 55 conferencing system running Ubuntu available for presentations. It consists of a 55" 4K Display w/ an audio bar and 4k camera. To use the display with your own computer it will need HDMI. Note that this system was designed to use a closed source proprietary Android or Windows IoT OS and application. It was not designed for Linux support, so we are still hacking on this puppy (i.e. the audio bar, a 15 microphone phased array, is still not functioning completely).