She Codes Brighton is a social meet up group for female developers co-organised by Happy Bear Software developer Rosa (me) along with Wendy Armstrong and Seren Matthews. In September 2015 She Codes held an event under the umbrella of The Brighton Digital Festival..
Entering its 5th year, the Brighton Digital festival aggregated more than 140 events across the course of September. The festival makes for a great opportunity to meet like minded people and delve into something new, as there are multiple events held every night across the city.
In discussing ideas for our event, She Codes members expressed that they wanted to learn hardware skills to couple with their coding knowledge. Having an understanding of how to build projects with hardware would mean that we could diverge from creating interactions solely via screen which would open up new development possibilities.