July 2011
4 posts
Arduino Workshops on Sunday 7/24
Arduino is an open source prototyping platform. It combines a microcontroller (computer brain) with input and output ports to enable virtually any project.
Example projects range from playful, like LED cubes, to practical, like a mouse trap!
Two workshops will be held on Sunday: Intro to Arduino from 2-4 pm, and Arduino Programming from 5-7 pm. The Intro to Arduino workshop will...
Big Robot Lives
Late last night, we had our first print on the big robot. This robot eats chipped HDPE milk jugs (the plastic ones, clear and opaque both) and extrudes them a lot like a big RepRap. We’ve been working on it for a few months now.
The nucleus of the machine is a CNC router table, a DynaCNC 1000. The company is out of business, as you might notice from the website, but they were located...
Clonedel Electronics Packages
What do you do when the electronics kit you want to buy is more than you’d like to pay, or doesn’t have the right mix of features? Stop by Metrix and create your own of course! I recently spoke with Logan Bowers about his plans for creating and selling his own electronics package to work with the Clondels- also being made at Metrix.
For those who aren’t sure what Clondels are, I’ll give...
Summer Workshops
Here is our upcoming schedule of workshops. Please see our workshop wiki page for more information, or click on the individual workshop listed in our calendar. For Youth Summer Camps, please read more information here. As always, please call the shop (206-357-9406) to reserve your place in advance. We look forward to seeing you down here!
Thursday, July 14, 2011 7-9pm Basic EL Wire
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