Penguicon

This page is for planning i3's participation at the 2011 Penguicon.

Brad and Roger (Karen, where were you?) met and came up with this so far: Brainstorm thoughts in no particular order ...

Green Room

Open 24 hours with scheduled activities:

3 pm - 8 pm Friday

9 am - 8 pm Saturday

9 am - 3 pm Sunday

Note that these are planned available hours, not committed hours.

We have a budget from Penguicon of $500 for anything needed.

Three areas:

eRoom

crafts

mechanics

Hands-on workshops

• How to Solder - Mitch / Jimmy, maybe have twice
• Creative mending class
• Oscilloscope class
• Using the Cloud (e.g., Amazon S3 vs Google vs ?)
• Intro to PCB layout and design with FreePCB - Trevor[0]

Open "office hours" when not scheduled for workshop - who will staff?

Contests

• Contests for skills, e.g., assembling an electronics kit, sewing something
• Contests for creativity, e.g., give people a bunch of stuff and make something
• Prizes related to the topic of the contest
• Make unique prizes like a soldering iron holder trophy cast from someone's hand
• An "Anything But Ethernet" communication contest

Arduino - Custom Arduino circuit boards with i3 printed / etched on them - First to do something or one of a choice of things using an arduino (or other thing)

AVR - AVR programming challenge (ideas?)

Relay Race (Matt)

1. Pick a Padlock
2. Link Buckyballs
3. Hula-Hoop helicopter course
4. (something else)

Suite

A mini-i3

• Showcase projects
• Post large pictures of i3 to form a "virtual i3" space
• Video composite of events we've held/attended. - Needs video and photos from everyone (Nate_LapT)

Open 3 pm Fri - 3 pm Sun

Parties

Two room parties from 9 pm to 3 am (or when drinks run out!)

• Need a dedicated bartender for each party, nit just "shifts" (Roger for one?)
• Music from Ammo Box or Pirate Box

Other Activities

Things to get people to interact:

• Vinyl cutter: let people customize and make something to show off?
• Makerbot: let people customize and make something to show off?
• i3no (read it out loud)
• Write on your friend's forehead and upload picture for prizes (or was this just for the party?)
• QR Challenge - Ribbons for those who complete the challenge. (Yeh,ney?)

Other Places at the Hotel

• Lobby posters
• Lobby schedule
• QR codes linked to website pages of containing
• Skeeball in hallway (Matt promises it will be ready!)
• MIT Mystery / Scavenger Hunt (Ed?)

Publicity

Ribbons (from previous discussion on group blog) ?

Clipboard with email signup sheet for events and classes.