January 2012
3 posts
Snolon wants you to learn Arduino
I know you don’t want to disappoint Snolon. Come learn about microcontrollers at our Intro to Arduino Workshop on Tuesday, February 7th at 7 PM. The workshop will cover the basics of microcontrollers through the Arduino platform. You can learn to make your own happy Snowlon, or any number of other fun, useful, quirky projects. The Arduino platform is versatile and lends itself to many...
Jan 20th
The first Intro to Electronics Workshop of 2012!
Besides being fun an colorful, resistors are a very useful electronics component found pretty much in every electrically powered device we use. Want to learn how they work? Been itching to trick-out your old phone/toaster oven/lighting fixture?Interested in building your own electronics devices?  Come to the Intro to Electronics Workshop on Tuesday, January 31 at 7 PM. You’ll get to...
Jan 19th
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Laser precision time[pieces]
Recently, Metrix has lent its tools to some interesting time piece projects. They both use the sky to get their time readings and they both use high-tech fabrication methods, but they couldn’t be more different in their functionality. One [top] is a digital LED clock that is run by a microcontroller and gets GPS readings through a GPS module for its time calibration while the other...
Jan 19th