Lincoln Smith, a Sussex University researcher, will be doing a session or two on Arduino, the open-source electronics prototyping platform aimed at artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

He’s going to purchase a number of the boards and bring them along to BarCamp where you’ll be able to quickly write your first “Hello World” and then get hacking. Just look what one enterprising person did with some Linden Lab schwag from the recent Wired Sussex Jobs Fair…

Lincoln will sell the boards he brings at the end of theweekend (£18.51), but they will be for general use until then.

If you’d like to install the IDE and have a bash at doing some coding or buy a board at the end of the ‘Camp, please leave a comment here so he can gage interest and know what to bring.

You can download the IDE (Linux, Mac & Windows) from the Arduino site at http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.

For ideas, help and inspiration have a look in the Arduino playground.

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