Block Party 2022 at the Centre for Computing History #VintageComputing @grim_fandango
The Centre for Computing History are kindly providing their classroom area for our semi-regular celebration of teletext, videotext, and other character-based delights Saturday and Sunday April 23 & 24th.
There will be panels and workshops, to introduce passing Bamboozle! fans to the more esoteric aspects of our hobby, plus some of the biggest names from the tiniest of scenes.
The museum will be open from 10am to 5pm on both days, and their visitors will be welcome to drop in and out of our room as they please.
There’s still time to get in touch if you have any type of low-bandwidth technology or art that you would like to share with the world. The room is getting a little cosy now, but we can still find a space for you. Teletext, Viewdata, Prestel, Minitel, or PETSCII – it’s all good.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
