September 2011
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Mod Your Plush Makeshop POSTPONED
Unfortunately due to a number of factors beyond our control (apartment upheaval; extended family funeral) this Makeshop is POSTPONED. Watch for it closer to the Winter Solstice holidays, and keep thinking of new and different things to do to improve on your stuffies!
Mod Your Plush Makeshop
Thursday October 6th 7pm to 9pm
Metrix 623A Broadway East Seattle WA 98102
$25 with all materials,...
Everybody loves robots part 2
Awesome things you can do with your Arduino driven robot:
1. Connect it to the internet, get visual feedback from it, and control it through your computer or phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsvqQ5h7QMY&feature=player_embedded
2. Attach a Wii nunchuck to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlukl5fLi7s&feature=player_embedded
3. Or make it remote controlled.
4. Make your robot...
Everybody loves robots!
Making your very own servo robot is only a workshop away. Did you always want to make awesome things with microcontrollers but thought it might be too complicated or didn’t know where to start? No idea what a microcontroller does but like the shiny robot in the picture?
Come to the Intro to Arduino workshop, Tuesday, September 27th, 7-9 PM.
You’ll get your very own Arduino board...
Resistors, Capacitors, Integrated Circuits, oh my!
Want to know how to turn this:
into your very own cool light fixture…
or a super sneaky spy robot?
Come to the Basic Electronics workshop, Tuesday, September 20th, 7-9 PM.
You’ll get the foundation in electronics that will get you started on your path to all kinds of awesome projects. With a few basic, cheap components you can create the beautiful light fixture above or...
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Open 7400 Logic Competition and the Logic Counter...
Dangerous Prototypes just announced their Open 7400 Logic Competition, and it just so happens that Metrix Create:Space has recently acquired more logic than Vulcan.
We’ve been sorting and cataloging what we have over the past week and putting it on the LogicCounter wiki page.
Are you working on a project? Do you want to win prizes and fame on the Internets? Come on down and make...
Mod Your Plush Makeshop Thursday October 6th...
Come to our October Makeshop on stuffed animal surgery! We will provide you with the raw materials to create a complex recreated animal with lights and noise, and you will go home with an awesome modded plush!
You are also welcome to take on one of our advanced projects (hack a Furby!) and/or plan making your own electronics (noise/sound/lights).
Your Makeshop catalyst has interned at...
