Google Summer of Code - Arduino interested?

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I've been looking into participating in the Google Summer of Code but haven't found an open source project that appealed to me. This year the Arduino seems to have peaked my interest.

Would one of the Arduino team members be interested? The Arduino project would have to be declared as one of Google Summer of Code's partnering projects, and a team member would have volunteer to be a member.

There is always room for improvement and I think I can help in many areas - from the website, to documentation, to helping with the release of Arduino 14.

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It's great that it piqued your interest. Are you a student? (Only students can participate in the "write Open Source code for pay" scheme that they're running.)

I hear that the Google Summer of Code's budget and range of projects will be smaller than in past years, but I'm no authority. It would also take a mentor or "boss" figure, such as someone associated with the Arduino IDE or Libraries, to contact Google and help the student(s) set realistic milestones and delivery dates of complete features that will be integrated into the whole.

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Yup, I am a 3rd year Mechatronics Engineering Student at the University of Waterloo in Canada. The coop program at the school is stunning and has really helped me broaden my skills in hardware and software design. I've previously worked at Nuance Communication in the QA department, as a web designer at CUMIS Group, and am currenly working at General motors as a control engineer.

Outside of school and coop, I am currently a mentor for a FIRST Robotics team; and a member of several Waterloo Engineering teams. In the past I have helped in the development of UrbanDrinks.com, and have participated in the Skills Canada competition - in which the team I participated in won Nationals.

I am really hoping someone heavily involved in the project has the time to be my mentor. I do understand that it would be a large undertaking on their part, but I am hoping someone steps up.

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You know what I think would be great if you could find a mentor?

To start a library of component-specific education pages.

Starting with the obvious ones like resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors and specific ICs.

Have a standard format with nice aesthetics and standard content:- Photograph / schematic symbol.

  • Good explanation of how they work. What the different variations are and how to chose between them.
  • Simple example circuits shown as schematics, breadboard schematic and as a photograph.
    I think this would be really valuable as a resource to Arduino and electronic beginners--in some ways more so than any code would be. IMNSHO :slight_smile:

--Phil.