Hello,

As Paul suggested there appears to be interest in doing something Arduino related for June. A few ideas were discussed in the pub last Thursday and my mental notes for this are along the lines of (corrections and additions are welcome):

- Plenty of people doing Arduino intros etc, and so little point in doing yet another - What's interesting about Arduino is why it succeeded - suggested success can be largely attributed to community practices etc, and not the tech - Arduino community has diversity and it continues to grow in this respect...

So, one idea was that we might have someone (ideally close to tinker.it) talk about the core Arduino approach and perhaps with emphasis on community. And then have a few other folks talk about derived projects, either from the perspective of "end user" or project lead or contributor. E.g.:

- LilyPad - concurrency.cc board

I think there is a really interesting story here concerned with why Arduino has been so successful, and some valuable lessons for new open source hardware projects.

As ever we'd also love to hear of any suggestions for alternative themes that folks may have, either for June or for subsequent months.

Cheers,

Andrew

PS. Details for the May meeting should be up on the website later this week.