campey
Enjoyineering, creating the world we want to live in. Helping technology and humanity work together. In Africa for Africa.
"Hello, World!" as a kid in the 80s, working on the internet in the 90s, pro dev in 00's, fell down the Lean-Agile rabbit hole in 2007 and still enjoying the fall. Has helped teams/orgs from 1 to 100 people in both start-up and corporates.
Working on the software production value stream and Engineering Kindness at afrolabs and volunteering to help grow coding at CoderLevelUp.org
Accepted Talks:
turtle-bots: simulated beginnings
Continued adventures with teaching python's turtle new tricks, now heading into robotics, starting with simulation in MuJoCo/jupyter/colaboratory.
Last year David shared turtle-translated a prototype of a multilingual turtle. Since then he has spoken to many brilliant people and gotten inspired to try to get python turtle to control robots, with a goal of "lowering the floor" to get into robotics.
One significant hurdle to robotics is: getting and using robots. They are expensive and fiddly! This makes them impossibly inaccessible to under-resourced learners.
This talk will share a prototype for a really simple starting point in browser-based robotic turtle simulation (complete with live 3d rendered videos and realistic physics!), and hopefully open the door wide open for you to join in.
