When: 9am - 5pm (Sunday July 27th, 2014) -

This is not a hackathon. There will be no prizes other than the satisfaction of making something awesome! We're going to get together anyone interested in node and hardware hacking, and giving them an open space to hack, collaborate, learn, and share their results with others.

Our schedule

• 9:00am Welcome! Introduction by Joe/Adam
• 9:20-12pm Hack some hardware and make stuff work!
• 12pm-1pm Lunch break, provided and sponsored by &yet
• 1pm-4pm Continue working and upgrading projects.
• 4pm-4:30pm Show & tell.

For more info on NodeBots and getting ready for the upcoming awesomeness: http://nodebots.io/ and https://npmjs.org/package/johnny-five

What's provided

We will have space, tables, power, Internets, soldering stations, spare parts, some craft supplies, and soda.

Come Prepared

While we will have some spare arduinos and other electronic bits you can use to build your bot or flash an led, they may be in short supply. We recommend the SparkFun Inventor's Kit as a good starting point as it will offer lots of fun and learning outside the event.

Please bring your laptop and don’t forget your power cord.

Some things you might want to bring if you have them laying around so we can share and make bigger/better/badder bots:

• Rubber Bands
• Popsicle Sticks
• Spare cardboard / tiny cardboard boxes
• glue gun(s) and glue stocks

3d printer!

We are also hoping to have a 3d printer available for you to try and print out something for your bot!

Getting Ready

Before you can start hacking, you'll need to get a few things ready on your laptop.

Install the latest stable (0.10.29) release of node.js from http://www.nodejs.org/

Create your NodeBots Day project setup:

    npm install -g nodebot-workshop@2.2.1

    mkdir nodebotsday

    cd nodebotsday

    npm install johnny-five@0.8.1

• Any newer versions than the ones listed are fine, but please make sure you have at least these versions installed.
• If you are having issues or can’t get something working hit up Joe on twitter via @josephweakley.

Code of Conduct

Please read our Code of Conduct.