Who is the new volunteer for Humanitarian Aid?
Steve Kalaydjian and I presented this talk at the Toronto Social Tech Unconference on October 23, 2010
The conference details: http://stcu.freegeektoronto.org/
Thanks to Ushnish Sengupta and Free Geek Toronto for having us.
Two university students: Vasileios Georgitzikis and Pierros Papadeas, spent yesterday in the Hackerspace Playground and Arduino. Their goal: create an Arduino xbee open web powered bicycle. The night before they worked on their script. Then, they refined it by creating the device and testing speeds without a bike until about 3:30pm.
How it works
What they built was an Arduino wireless transmitter and a hall effect sensor on the wheel of a bicycle.
This calculates speed and then broadcasts this wirelessly. The receiver module connects to a usb.
Every bike broadcasts and id and speed. The script reads and visualizes using Html 5.
The Arduino demo at the hackbus:
The team:
TechSoup Canada hosted NetSquared Tuesday on October 19, 2010. I had the pleasure of sharing the CrisisCommons/CrisisCamp story with attendees. The second part of the talk was to provide participants tips and lessons learned about crowdsourcing. I also gave people some homework to consider adding Crowdmap to their own crowdsourcing mix for local NGOs and NFPs.
(Wow, I posted this two days ago on Slideshare and it has 118 views. Thanks!)
I was honoured to join the O’Reilly Ignite family by presenting at Ignite Toronto on Thursday, September 2, 2010.
Video:
(Thanks Brian Chick for recording.)
Heather’s Ignite Slideshare:
It was a fantastic experience. I learned so much from preparing and presenting.
Please share. Hopefully this will inspire people to volunteer.
Thanks,
Heather Leson