Merge pull request #6 from JavaScript-NZ/feature/nodebots-js-con

Add new guide for nodecopters

Author: jamesmacfie

README.md

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 Welcome to NodeBots New Zealand. Here you will find all the things you need to get up and running at a NodeBots New Zealand Event.
 
+If you're here for the NodeBots event for nz.js(con), then head on over [here](events/nodebots-nz-js-con-2017.md).
+
 For general help on getting started, checkout our [setup guide](setup.md) and [getting started guide](guides/getting-started.md#getting-started). These two guides should cover everything you need for a NodeBots day.
 
 [Join the chat at http://slack.javascript.org.nz](http://slack.javascript.org.nz)

events/nodebots-nz-js-con-2017.md

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+# nz.js(con).nodebots
+
+Haere mai, and welcome to the nz.js(con).nodebots workshop.
+
+Thanks to our awesome sponsors at Xero, who you should checkout if you're looking for JavaScript jobs, we have 12 Parrot mini-drones to hack on.
+
+So today we'll be working with drones 🤖!
+
+For the first part of the workshop, you'll be connecting to the drones, using node and JavaScript.
+
+Once you're up and running it's up to you how you control them. Through controllers, phones, pebble watches, leap motions... the sky is the limit.
+
+Thirty minutes before the end of the event, we'll be hosting a drone racing knockout elimination tournament, where you'll be racing your drone around a course, in groups of 4 to find the ultimate node drone racing champion.
+
+There will be prizes for the winners, with spot prizes in the mix, and no doubt drone crashes worthy of tweeting about.
+
+If you're not in to drones, or we've run out of drones to offer, we'll also be running our classic sumo-bot tournament, where you can build a two wheeled sumo-bot, and battle it in a sumo-fighting tournament.
+
+## Gear up
+
+There are only 12 drones, so we'll be working in groups to get the job done, so form a group or grab a buddy, then be sure to pick up your drone from the nodebots depot, likely located on the table where everyone is scrambling too.
+
+Once you have your drone, and a few backup batteries, you'll want to make sure you have a lego mini-figure your team relates to, then you're ready to start hacking.
+
+Alternatively, if we're out of drones, then pickup a sparkfun inventors kit and a sumo-bot chassis and head on over to: [link here] for details on how to build it.
+
+## Getting friendly with your Drone
+
+Although you can use the Parrot Mini app for for [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/freeflight-mini/id1137022728?mt=8) or [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parrot.freeflight4mini&hl=en) that's not nearly as fun as controlling it with JavaScript!
+
+The npm module you're going to want to use is [node-rolling-spider](https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-rolling-spider). When you grab your drone we'll tell you the Bluetooth name so that you can use that to connect with.
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+We'd recommend getting a simple example working first just to get used to how everything connects. There are examples inside the above module in the `/eg` folder.
+
+What's next? It's up to you!
+
+Good luck 👍🏼
+
+## Things to keep in mind
+
+tl;dr; Be careful of other people ;)
+
+ - Don't fly the drones *at* people or annoy anyone by buzzing them around their heads. Those blades are super sharp
+ - Keep the indoor hull on your drone
+ - The drones are going to hit the wall or the roof, we know, but please don't do that on purpose
+ - Just generally be curteous of other people's space where you can