Category: Meeting Announcements & Notes

Meeting Announcements & Notes

October 25, 2019 Meeting

Robin

We will be meeting in the open space on the first floor of 25N.

Agenda & notes:

  • Welcome for any new memebers
    • Let’s make sure everyone is signed up in Slack and Codesters
    • Any questions, comments, or ideas from our last meeting?
  • Main Room: Codesters & Python
    • We will continue working through the challenges together – you can also work by yourself!
  • Yellow Room: Intro to Micro:bits
    • What can we do with these cool little things? 🙂

See you there!

 

Meeting Announcements & Notes

January 11, 2019 – Meeting

Robin

photo of a woman holding an ipad

TONIGHT: Makey Makey meets Codesters – PART TWO!

It was pretty fun last time – so we are doing it again!

We will playing around with drum sets, frogger, etc with Makey Makeys, in Python on Codesters.

Here is a rough example of a drum set:

https://www.codesters.com/preview/346bfe77835a4fdca41faa40da5866fb/ 

Here is a fun way to make a game controller with Makey Makey and Play-Doh: https://labz.makeymakey.com/cwists/preview/1490x

And the new version of Scratch (3.0) includes a Makey Makey extension that expands its capabilities. Take a look at this example:

https://labz.makeymakey.com/cwists/preview/1996x

Join us in the boardroom at 25N at 5:45pm!

 

 

 

Meeting Announcements & Notes

December 7, 2018 – CANCELLED

Robin

Meeting CANCELLED! Please stay home, nice and warm and code! Or maybe go to the Geneva Christmas walk! See you December 14, 2018!

On December 7th, we will be meeting at the St Charles Library. Geneva will be hosting the Geneva Christmas Walk.

We will be re-writing the pong game that we build in the beginning of October with Scratch, in Python. We will be then seeing if we can also use a Makey Makey to play the pong game. 😉

Here is the scratch game: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214256666/