In this hands-on workshop, we'll turn tiny microcontrollers into real web servers hosted from the hardware in your hands. We'll get ESP32s running simple pages on the public internet, then decorate them with craft supplies and electronics into what I'm calling "sculptural computation": physical objects that tell a story about how the web actually works.
Bring your laptop. I'll bring the micro-controllers, some craft supplies, and electronics peripherals, and I encourage you to bring your own materials to make something genuinely yours. The goal is to have something you can keep tinkering with for the rest of camp.
I'll ask for €10 to cover the cost price of the electronics,you keep the hardware at the end.
What is cute tech?
Frivolous technology that supports storytelling and knowledge sharing. Building hardware is a creative outlet and a way to understand the infrastructure around us — the servers and edge devices we use every day but rarely see or touch.
Along the way, we'll talk about running compute at the edge, and raise some questions worth sitting with: who owns what bits of our hardware infrastructure? What does it mean to hold your server?
Come to make something interesting and leave with better questions than you arrived with.