[🏫 In-Person] MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards

This event will be a single talk on MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, room TBA.

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Agenda:

• 🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
• 🗣 Introduction (18:30)
• 👉 MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards (18:35ish)
• 🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)

👉 MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic
Can you use a MIDI controller to host TV game show games with the help of an event audience? Does bird song offer the perfect dataset for these games? Will a rainbow clown wig really offer protection against minor head injuries when the audience throws things at the host?

In this session, Tony hopes to answer these questions that no one has ever asked.

Using a 500 item data set of bird sightings and recordings curated in recent years, he'll guide the audience through the creation of a few games as part of a MacCatalyst App using .NET Maui. As well as exploring the high level benefits and drawbacks of choosing MAUI for cross platform development, the session will touch on the mental health benefits of stepping away from a screen and spending time in nature, using our non-tech hobbies to support technical upskilling, and offer a jump off point for anyone looking to explore the worlds of MIDI, MAUI, and ornithology.

No knowledge of any of the topics, nor a desire to use MAUI, is required to take something away from this talk.