Official Workshops

@ShrimpingIt accepts commissions for programmable electronics prototyping workshops delivered in person, either delivered by the core team, headquartered in the North West, or by a network of affiliates across the UK.

Workshop formats and project builds exist for learners of all levels from 9 years through to university degree level depending on the hosts' preference. Workshops can be delivered direct to learners, or to support educators' continual professional development. Because we share all our project resources for free, skilled educators are normally able to replicate any @ShrimpingIt workshop after participating once as a learner.

A typical half-day workshop format built around the ultra-simple Persistence of Vision is approximately as follows (omitting breaks).

Different learning formats are available around each of our project kits, the The Shrimp, Persistence of Vision, Conductive Keyboard, Alarm Clock, Memory Game, LED Clock and we have experience also developing bespoke devices to suit the needs of commissioners.

In a full-day workshop formats, the second half of the day can introduce, for example Potential Dividers including potentiometers, light-dependent resistors, switches and conductive keyboards. Servos, RGB Leds, Serial UARTs and controlling circuits using Python scripting.

Standard workshop formats can be augmented or replaced with bespoke activities to serve the needs of those commissioning the workshop. At one extreme, we have run 2-day, open-ended, internet of things prototyping workshops for corporate experimenters, supported by our mobile electronics stocks. At the other, we have guided 8 year olds through the construction of a pre-designed Spy Gadget in support of a well-known TV show.

Around the World

As an open documentation project, we strongly encourage others to take advantage of our project builds and workshop materials, and there are workshops happening all over the world. A few of those experimenting with @ShrimpingIt resources have added themselves to the map above.

Other notable experimenters include Michael Margolis, author of the Arduino Cookbook who has been teaching using @ShrimpingIt materials at London Hackspace, Adrian McEwen author of Designing the Internet of Things, Sjoerd Dirk Meijer co-author of Make:Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects and pioneer of the ShrimpKey which we have recently remixed as our Conductive Keyboard project.

Past Workshops

@ShrimpingIt has been invited by lots of different individuals and institutions to run @ShrimpingIt workshops and demonstrations for them, including...