[spectre] Call for participants: Hybrid Sensor Network workshop led by Arctic Perspective Initiative 30.11.-3.12. Helsinki/Finland

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* Call for participants: Hybrid Sensor Network workshop led by Arctic
Perspective Initiative http://bioartsociety.fi/archives/2115 

* 30.11.-3.12. at Aalto Media Factory/FABLAB Helsinki/Finland

* Apply with short CV and motivation to erich.berger [-at-]
bioartsociety.fi before 20.11.

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This hands-on workshop led by Marko Peljhan & Matthew Biederman from
Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) http://arcticperspective.org/ , is
organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart from Friday 30.11.- Monday
3.12 at Aalto Media Factory/FABLAB Helsinki/Finland. There is a free,
public presentation about API in Media Factory auditorium on Monday
3.12. at 11.00.

The workshop is the final component of ‘The Art of Gathering
Environmental Data’ event-series in collaboration with this year´s
Pixelversity program. The workshop will focus on the details of building
a hybrid sensor network for harsh environments.

The Arctic Perspective Initiative will be introduced and serve as a
conceptual framework for the weekend course. During the workshop, the
participants will construct a simple wireless node for sensing an
environmental condition (such as temperature, relative humidity, light
levels, etc). The nodes will then be utilized to create a small, local
network to collect data. Using open hardware and the free software
codebase that API has created, the workshop will conclude with simple
geolocalized visualizations using a variety of tools built for this
purpose. Tools and frameworks to be discussed will be Arduino, Geopedia,
Nunaliit, Remote Sensing and Unmanned Systems, among others, with a
particular focus on issues such as ruggedization, calibration, and
validation.

To begin, on 30.11, there is a session for participants without
electronic experience: ‘Introduction into the electronics of collecting
environmental data’. For the rest, Saturday 1.12.- Monday 3.12. follows
from 10-18h with Hybrid Sensor Network workshop. There is a 40€
materials fee for the workshop.

Apply with short CV and motivation to erich.berger [-at-]
bioartsociety.fi before 20.11.

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