In all my programming life I never tried communicating in code with real-world objects. But now there is something to make it easy (or at least doable): Arduino. Sharon Cichelli demonstrated it at the All Girl Hack Night in October of 2011. Arduino is a microcontroller that lets you program blinky LED lights, or things that make buzzing alarm ( Read more... )

My not-yet-6-year-old daughter E isn't very curious about what I'm doing or where I'm going when I'm not with her. So it was unusual for her to show interest in my going to All Girls Hack Night. As I said before, All Girls Hack Night is a monthly meeting of female developers, where they get together to work on their code projects and talk, with a ( Read more... )

My post on the first All Girls' Hack Night meetup is now on GeekAustin.org . On 9/28/2010 female programmers of Austin got together to socialize and work on their code projects.


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