0Posted by skullkey on October 24, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Schalk was doing some soldering to get a serial connection to his quad’s radio so he could flash it. A question arose “why?”
the answer might be in here.. http://www.house4hack.co.za/blheli-on-dji-opto-30a-escs i left before 12, and Quentin and Gert was still assisting.
Nic rocked up with his board- see a post from Peter- simplicity.. i can rather see myself build a board like that.
And Hans came around.
And as per normal brought stuff with. http://www.bellice.co.za/ – as i showed Peter
This course was initially scheduled for the 4th of May and has now been rescheduled for the 22nd of June
Overview
This workshop, presented by Toby Kurien and Dr Schalk Heunis, will introduce you to Android development. All the basic concepts pertaining to Android development are covered, such that you will be able to create your own internet-connected apps. During the workshop you will build a simple Twitter client.
Course Contents
On the completion of this workshop, the delegates will have an understanding of :
* App icon, drawables
* Android Manifest file
* Activity, UI layout vs code
* Toasts, LogCat, Exception handling
* Layouts: landscape, portrait, etc.
* UI building, LinearLayout, layout weights
* Resources: strings, arrays, colours, dimens
* ListView and Adapter
* Multi-threading, UI Thread, AsyncTask, Runnable
* HttpUrlConnection and JSON parsing
* Menu items and Intents
* Dialogs
Date / Time
The course is from 9:00 – 16:00 on 22 June 2013
Venue
House4Hack in Centurion – 4 Burger Ave, Lyttleton Manor, Centurion
Cost
R1200 (40% discount available for House4Hack members – please chat to Toby at a Tuesday meetup) – this price includes snacks during the workshop and lunch.
Requirements
You will need to have experience with Java or a similar modern object-orientated language. Please bring a laptop with the latest Android Development Toolkit installed. For download and installation instructions visit http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Random Hacks of Kindness was this weekend, 1-2 June at UNISA, organized by UNISA Pro-Bono Computing (Jabu), CSIR (Ishmael) and House4Hack – although Jabu did most of the heavy lifting as usual.
The event was attended by 40+ enthusiastic and dedicated Rhoksters and 8 of these worked all night Saturday evening!
House4Hack and TUT (Tshwane University of Technology) again collaborated (previously at the Nasa hackathon) and this time won!
Winning team - Hey Go There
Our team had the following members:
Shawn (Peace Corp)
Raoul (TUT)
Khuthadzo (TUT)
Gabriel (TUT)
Guy (H4H)
Schalk (H4H)
Gabriel, Schalk, Khuthadzo, Rauol, Guy and Shawn
We tackled a problem posed by Shawn Joshi from the Peace Corp and the following Prezi by Shawn explains the problem and the solution we built:
As a nice touch we added a Augmented Reality view to the solution and here is a video of Guy checking out the view and discovering where to go and where not to go:
We still have lots of work on this and hope to get it to a working product soon – if anyone is interested, the source code is here:
https://github.com/diraulo/HeyGoThere
Well done to everyone who participated and helped to make this the best RHoK yet!
Here are some photos of the event, courtesy of Geekulcha
