[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop

[Mark Keating]

In the heady enthusiasm of all the fun things we are doing at this 
year's London Perl Workshop I may have missed telling you all when the 
workshop will be....

London Perl Workshop: Saturday 7th November 09:00-18:30 - University of 
Westminster, Cavendish Campus.

Also a few more details, once more, about the Arduino Workshop:


      Sponsored Arduino Workshop <http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2014/news/1247>


This year we will be presenting a Sponsored Arduino Workshop with 
part-sponsored equipment. Adrian McEwan and Hakim Cassimally will 
present a 4 hour workshop (split into two parts) focussing on the 
Arduino and Internet of Things.

The workshop will divide into a structured introduction, and a free 
period, where you can play with more electronics or code depending on 
your interests.


      First half: Basics of Arduino and Electronics

  * connecting Arduino, basics of IDE, basics of C++ for Arduino
  * breadboard basics
  * wiring up a simple output (LED)
  * wiring up a simple input (button, potentiometer)
  * more complicated outputs - RGB LED
  * connecting to a simple internet app (basic PSGI) to change colour of LED


      Second half: Playtime!

Collaborate with other attendees or work by yourself on, for example:

  * more electronics, wiring up a more complicated input/output from our
    goodie bag
  * more client code: play with C++ on the Arduino side
  * more server code: extend the basic PSGI you connected to earlier
    into a full featured Cat/Ox/Mojolicious app
  * more Perl interfacing: play with Device::Firmata,
    Device::Arduino::LCD, or Device::WebIO

As part of this workshop all attendees will leave with an Arduino Uno, 
Ethernet Shield and various small components. The cost of these 
components is close to £60 per kit; but thanks to generous sponsorship 
the attendees who sign up to this will only be charged £25 per person.

To sign up to this you must contact Mark Keating 
atm(dot)keating(at)shadowcat.co.uk <mailto:m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk>or 
Claire Jacksonc.l.jackson(at)shadowcat.co.uk 
<mailto:m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk><mailto:c.l.jackson at shadowcat.co.uk>and confirm 
your participation. They will give you a link of how to pay. Payment 
*must* be in advance and numbers will be limited to 15 persons. We 
recommend you sign up soon as two thirds of the places are gone.

The speakers have been generously sponsored by theEnlightened Perl 
Organisation. <http://www.enlightenedperl.org/>

Please feel free to share this news around. Remember that the submission 
of Talks/Workshops, submission of Sponsors and registration at the 
conference should be done as soon as possible.

-mdk