[MinnowBoard] Outreachy contribution for MinnowBoard

[John 'Warthog9' Hawley]

Howdy!

So the best place to start is with the code itself, which can be found
at https://github.com/MinnowBoard/fishbowl-notebooks.  I'd recommend
digging into the code and taking a look at what it does.  Specifically
things like the Calamari class:

https://github.com/MinnowBoard/fishbowl-notebooks/blob/master/Calamari.ipynb

which implements a quick explination of some of the things you can do
with the Calamari lure ( http://wiki.minnowboard.org/Calamari_Lure ).
The iPython notebook stuff builds on some another repo:

https://github.com/MinnowBoard/minnow-maker

which in turn has the Calamari python driver:

https://github.com/MinnowBoard/minnow-maker/blob/master/pyDrivers/calamari.py

(as well as the ADC driver for the potentiometer that's attached to the
spi ADC
https://github.com/MinnowBoard/minnow-maker/blob/master/pyDrivers/calamari_adc.py
)

If you are looking to get something committed, the best place might be
to take a look for something to extend the functionality to do something
novel or more useful.  Considering most folks don't have hardware, I'd
suggest taking a look at extending something like

https://github.com/MinnowBoard/minnow-maker/blob/master/pyDrivers/rgb.py

and possibly adding some additional functionality there, possibly a
function to cycle through the color wheel (since the values could be
checked for that.  There's also a few "# WRITEME" tags in the code, but
that might be difficult to develop without some hardware to test against.

There's always things that could be added in

https://github.com/MinnowBoard/fishbowl-notebooks

particularly

https://github.com/MinnowBoard/fishbowl-notebooks/blob/master/broadcast_ip.py

which we've used (in the past) to act as a mechanism to discover what
the IP address of the board is, and I'm sure there's some things there
we could be doing either on the broadcasting, or even writing up a
simple receiver since I don't believe we have one fully available yet.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 03/15/2016 12:07 PM, Anna Liao wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm interested in applying to Outreachy Round 12 with a contribution for
> MinnowBoard.  I'm thinking the ipython project since I'm familiar with
> python and ipython.
> 
> What is the best way to make a contribution?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anna
> 
> 
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