Now the telepresence robot has an actual support mast for the netbook it uses as the control server and video chat interface. This is much better than the stack of shoe boxes I was using temporarily. For now it is just a four inch PVC pipe with 4 inch flange on both sides screwed into […]
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Using Johnny Chung Lee’s post as a guide, I was able to get my telepresence robot up and running for the first time. Then plan is to figure out a low cost way for people to tour other hackerspaces remotely and communicate almost as if you were there. I had a friend two states away
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Sorry for the late update everyone. Life’s been pretty busy with all the holiday stuff happening. Class 3 at the Melbourne Makerspace was a recap of weeks 1 and 2, as well as an introduction to basic circuits. 25 attendees enjoyed getting together and learning together basic electronics. Using components such as resistors, capacitors, transistors,
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Today, we held our second course on the Basic Breadboard Electronics classes. Today’s session we discussed component identification. There are 2 parts to this course. Part 1 and Part 2. We apologize for the delay of the classes by a week. The parts that Jaycon Systems ordered were held up in customs last week and we were unable to hold the
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This past weekend was the Introduction of our 10 week Basic Breadboard Electronics classes. It was a great turnout for the first class with over 20 in attendance. The kits provided to us by Jaycon Systems were very helpful in providing a basic knowledge of Ohms Law. James did a fantastic job introducing basic electronics principles to
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Here are a few pictures from our latest Show N Tell. This week, we had several great projects shown. Brad from Ultibots showed off the ability of their 3D printers by bringing in a Hexcopter. There was no flight but telling us about the abilities of their robot. Maybe we’ll invite him to the Makerspace and
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You can now sign up for James’ class on meetup! Looks like it’ll be a great series. He taught the recent Learn to Solder class and it was very informative…
Basic Breadboard Electronic Series- Sign-up now live on meetup! Read More »
Here are some pictures of the Intro to Arduino and eTextiles and wearable electronics workshops that we conducted over the weekend at TrepHub. A huge thank you to everyone that attended and helped. Intro to Arduino [srizonfbalbum id=5] Intro to eTextiles and wearable electronics [srizonfbalbum id=6]
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Here is a really cool flashlight design. that Instructables user EngineeringShock built that charges a bunch of caps and charges via a 9v wall wart. Unfortunately, super capacitors can only be charged to lower voltages; typically around 2.5v or 2.7v as a standard. If you place some super capacitors in series, you can charge to
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