An undisclosed Librarian, has approached me to see if our Makerspace can help them implement something similar to our 48 Projects for the undisclosed location. Joe and I made a field trip to survey their facility and resources; we would like to meet this Saturday morning at 10:00 to lay out the project. There is …
Brainstorming Session for Library Mini ’48 Projects’ Read More »
A fast-track course to basic electronics and programming lite. Saturday, April 22, 2017 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Saturday, April 29, 2017 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Saturday, May 6, 2017 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Learn more about the class’s content at: https://electronicsarduinobreadboardlab.wordpress.com/ The breadboard pictured above will be assembled in the beginning …
Today was day one of the Arduino Bootcamp. Arduino is an easy to use micro-controller platform that allows you to create simple or very complex electronic projects. You can learn more at Arduino.cc. We will hold the second class in this series next Saturday on June 25. To RSVP, head over to the MeetUp page …
It’s Pi Day! Here’s how we celebrated this holiday at Melbourne Makerspace. Our great presenter James brought a few of his projects involving Raspberry Pi’s along with versions of the brand new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. He also discussed a few uses and ways to hack your Pi. His wife baked a few delicious …
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, …
Basic Breadboard Electronics Week 3 of 10: Basic Circuits Read More »
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 …
Basic Breadboard Electronics Week 2 of 10: Component Identification Read More »
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 …
Basic Breadboard Electronics Week 1 of 10: Introduction Recap Read More »
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…
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 …
