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PIN13 Protospace – Robotics and other exciting things
We are now PIN13 Protospace: http://www.pin13lab.com
MicoNAS Introduces Arduino
MicroNAS will offer free Arduino workshops as of Oct 1, 2011 as part of our educational mission to help bridge the IT gap in marginalized communities. We are NO LONGER MICRONAS. We are now PIN13 Protospace: http://www.pin13lab.com
Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary areas including arts and entertainment projects more accessible.
Arduino is a very popular open source platform with hundreds of freely available resources and shared projects that can be used as examples and re-mixed to support new Arduino projects.
Arduino projects range from complex robotics, telecommunication, to blinking LEDs and intelligent toys. Arduino can help simplify entry into the world of microelectronics by incorporating simple to understand and replicate fun projects.
Arduino can be programmed from a PC via a USB connection using a C-based free integrated developmet environment called Sketch.
For more information visit the Arduino website: http://www.arduino.cc
Arduino Uno
We need IT volunteers!!!
Are you an IT professional living in Jordan?
Do you have technical skills such as programming, digital content production, , robotics, networking, computer repairs?
Do you like to contribute to narrowing the IT gap in Jordan?
Contact MicroNas for more info:
Hazim Bitar
07764004434
Hazim.Bitar {at} gmail (dot) com
Madaba – Digital Media Production Workshop
At the Madaba Refugee camp, Jordan, and in partnership with UNRWA, a digital media production workshop was held to students of the camp. The students learned basic skills of story-telling, shooting, and digital editing.
IT Training Center Launched in Ghour Mazra’ah
Part of MicroNAS’s mission is to be an enabler for IT culture in disadvantaged communities. We bring partners together and provide the needed vision and technical know how. With funding from UMNIAH and with the space provided by Zikra, Hazim Bitar setup an IT training facility and internet cafe, and possibly and IT incubator in Ghour Mazra’ah, the first of its kind in the village.
Hazim Bitar of MicroNAS provided requirements and specification, network design, and oversight for the implementation of the first IT center in Ghour Mazra’ah, issued call for quotations, interviewed bidders, and selected winning bid and ensured successful completion of project.
The IT center, which was originally a farm house, now includes power cabling and CAT 6 cabling in every work room, and power and CAT 6 outlets, wal-mounted network rack cabinet, router, switch, wifi, firewall, air conditioner, ADSL internet, shared multi-purpose printer, UPS, Windows 2008 compute server, workstations, centralized power switch, video projector, etc.
The computers were connected to the server, installed and configured for workshop setting, with simple maintenance procedures, imagine procedures, user accounts, security, etc.
Baq’ah Refugee Camp – Scratch Programming & Animation Workshop
Where: Baq’ah Womens’ Program – computer lab, Jordan
Who: Camp youth.
When: Saturday May 15, 2010 – 10am – 6pm
Cost: Free
Over 100 more young kids learn to program using Scratch in Jordan
Five workshops and over 100 young kids in Jordan have participated in Scratch programming and animation learning activities. This is in addition to the previous workshops we have completed in the Palestinian refugee camps and Ghour Mazra’a. We are ready to hold our first Scratch programming competition. More on this soon.
Marka Refugee Camp – Scratch Programming & Animation Workshop – Jordan Feb-2010
Workshop: Classrom Network Design & Maintenenace
Using the computer lab at UNRWA Women Program/CDO at the Jarash refugee camp as real world example, 3 volunteer network administrators and MicroNAS volunteers have participated in a practical workshop to help transform an environment infected with viruses, Trojans, and misconfiguration software, and network issues into a fully operational and secure network using available freeware tools and borrowing from industry best practices. The three latest volunteers of MicroNAS are Mr. Ismail Siam, Ms. Tamam Abuzahra, Mr. Fayegh Gaitha, all residents of the Jarash/Gaza refugee camp. Their experience is summarized in this case study.
http://micronas.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/case-study-jarash-computers
