[MinnowBoard] Outreachy contribution for MinnowBoard

[Anna Liao]

Hi John,

Thanks for the suggestion!  I will take a look at this more this weekend.
Looks like fun!

Anna

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:24 PM, John 'Warthog9' Hawley <
warthog9 at eaglescrag.net> wrote:

> 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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