Let's turn our tents into videogames! Making games for fairy lights
Workshop by Ben Kirman
In this workshop we'll power-up our tents and campervans by making them interactive. We'll be working with Raspberry Pi Pico-based devices, strings of LED fairy lights, and buttons to make playable games that can run from a power bank. We will provide you with the bits, you just bring a computer and a USB-C cable. You do not need any experience programming, we will help you get everything working and help you through making some simple games. If you have experience with Python you can enhance them further and make your own new ideas, and if you have experience with electronics, you can add different controls. We'll also talk through how to design games for 1 dimension, share some examples, and talk about some the weird stuff you can do when your computer is the size of a stick of gum and your television is just a really long wire. We'll turn the campsite into an arcade, one tent at a time!
| Attending this workshop will cost | £28 (see below) |
| Suitable age range | 12+ |
| Attendees should bring | You will need to bring a laptop for doing some coding, and a USB-C cable to connect your laptop to the Pi Pico devices we will use. You should also install Thonny (https://thonny.org/), which is the program we will use for coding in MicroPython. You can optionally bring a USB battery pack, that you can use to power your game without it being attached to your computer. |
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