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A docking station that charges a phone and, at the same time, shows the people around you whether you are available: a rotating status wheel and a coloured LED driven by an ESP32 that reads the presence status from an online collaboration platform. The housing is plywood and 3D-printed parts; the interesting part is what happens between the object and the internet. The housing is largely pre-assembled before the session, so that the afternoon is not spent on gluing and clamping. Participants wire and solder their own electronics — servo, buttons and an addressable RGB LED — from a wiring diagram, produce the printed status wheel on the UV printer, and mount the mechanism and the screwed panels themselves. The centre of the workshop is the connected part. Participants meet the ESP32 and what its Wi-Fi interface changes compared to a standard Arduino board, then work through how a device asks a service for information: REST requests, the JSON response, the presence states and the token a device needs before it may ask anything at all. The sketch is provided ready-written; participants flash it, read it and adapt the parts that are theirs — credentials, pins, colours and the mapping from status to colour and wheel position. Prior Arduino experience is required.

Target: General

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the practical integration of Generative AI into business processes. Participants learn how AI can support process optimization, automate individual work steps, and increase efficiency in everyday work. The workshop provides an overview of current AI tools, introduces basic prompting techniques, and guides participants through the development and optimization of an AI-supported process. In addition, relevant legal frameworks such as the EU AI Act, data protection requirements, and copyright considerations are addressed.

Target: Other

Microcontrollers turn a passive object into one that senses, decides and reacts. This one-day course builds the foundation needed for that: electrical quantities and Ohm's law, reading and building simple circuits, the Arduino board and its programming environment, and the interplay of sensors, code and actuators. It is designed for people with no previous experience in electronics or programming. The first part of the day works from theory to the first working circuit. After a short introduction to the platform, participants cover voltage, current, resistance and power, then identify the components in their kit and their schematic symbols. They build an LED circuit with a series resistor on the breadboard by hand, size the resistor themselves, and extend the circuit with push buttons in series and in parallel to see logical AND and OR behaviour physically before it appears in code. The second part moves to the board. Participants install the development environment, upload a first sketch, and work through digital output, digital input with pull-up resistors, analogue input, PWM, servo control, and light and distance sensing. Libraries are introduced through real components — a temperature and humidity sensor, an addressable LED strip and an I2C display. Every topic has a base exercise and an optional harder variant, so beginners and faster participants progress at their own pace. The day closes with an open block in which each participant designs and builds a small device of their own from the kit. All hardware is provided.

Target: General