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MintyBoost Build Night: May 26
Posted on May 27th, 2010 by theron • Filed under Events • 1 Comment
The May kit of the month was the Adafruit MintyBoost.
It was pretty quiet, but we ended up with some working MintyBoosts.
Kelly was a solder newbie, but she got hers working right away!
We have some extra kits if you want to buy one, or we can do another build night.
Take Apart Tuesdays: May 25
Posted on May 26th, 2010 by outlawpoet • Filed under Events • 4 Comments
So this Tuesday we got a whole set of pieces for those claw machines, joysticks, controllers, motors, claw, sidings, the whole set. It’ll keep us busy for a while and was a bit too much for one night, so we focused on what was most interesting to us.
So I, of course, headed straight for the money.
MintyBoost Build Night Wednesday 5/26
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by theron • Filed under Events • No Comments
On Wednesday 5/26, we will be having a MintyBoost kit build night.
The MintyBoost is a portable battery-powered USB power device that can be used to charge a cell phone, iPod, portable video game, Arduino, etc.
We have a bunch of kits. Come on in and build one! Don’t know how to solder? We’ll show you. We have several soldering irons, or you can bring your own if you want.
The MintyBoost is designed to fit in a Altoids gum tin, but it works in the regular mint tin as well, along with some space for a cable. We may have a few Altoids tins, but you can bring your own if you want to case it up.
Starts at 8 PM. $20 members/$30 non-members. Price includes the kit.
CrashSpace at DorkBot
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Daryll • Filed under News & Updates • No Comments
On Saturday Kevin Nelson gave a great presentation at Dorkbot Socal 40 introducing them to CrashSpace. If you’d like to know about what CrashSpace has been up to lately, click on the link to watch Thomas Edwards video.
Radio Mondays: amateur achievements
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by outlawpoet • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments
Given this last weekend’s (by all accounts) wildly successful maker faire, at Radio Mondays yesterday we decided to highlight amateur projects through history. This turned into a quick and dirty retrospective of Radio amateurs in general, (or at least the parts that struck my fancy). It seemed popular with the attendees, but unfortunately I didn’t record it. Here’s the slide outline of the presentation, just remember each slide had at least ten minutes of expansion and side notes.
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