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They should have area for group meeting area to host regular meetup / learning tutorial sessions for hobbyist and students. Also a lab/work bench where anyone
by srcmap 8y ago
They should have area for group meeting area to host regular meetup / learning tutorial sessions for hobbyist and students.
Also a lab/work bench where anyone can plug and play different components together and experiments, measure voltage, signals with an USB oscilloscopes (make with PI? ).
Volunteers can come in regularly to demo, share info, organizer classes.
Instead of just shelf full of the products - it should also have area where it run a lot of the interesting projects found on the web AI object recognition with YOLO2|3, PI self driving car, etc
- maaaats 8y agoWhy should they? This is trying to reach new people, not cater to existing hackers in the same way. You could always just visit a hackerspace. Having this in a high street locations would be extremely expensive and waste of resources.
- GordonS 8y agoWhat about maybe getting groups of school kids in? I'm sure plenty would have their interest piqued and end up making a purchase (or their parents, depending on age)
- untog 8y agoEven in that context I think a learning space would be good. Apple runs classes in their Apple Stores, and I know a good number of (typically older) people who learned to use their iPad that way. Something similar for the Pi could bring in a new audience, not cater to existing hackers.
- roywiggins 8y agoStuff on the high street seems more likely to reach new people than stuff in a hackerspace, which are a bit intimidating if you don't know anything about hackerspaces. Offering taster classes and workshops to get people interested in the product could be a great use of the space.