What are we going to do with our newly acquired vintage 1977 Lear Siegler terminal? Why, we’ll play ASCII Star Wars Episode IV on it, of course! Recently purchased at the 2011 Techno Swap Fest, this baby-blue beauty has classic 70’s styling, comfortable keyboard and gets 80 columns on the screen in a lovely white […] Read more
When Jeremy ‘Awesome’ Ashinghurst is not busy hacking at HaHa, researching new and interesting ways to make power tools dangerous or just generally being awesome, he’s busy riding his custom-built gravity-powered vehicle, also known as a soapbox kart, at dangerously high speeds down steep hills. Well, all of the hard work and road rash paid […] Read more
We will be at the second annual Techno Swap Fest. Come buy our junk! Feb 19, 2011 – 9am to 2pm National Electronics Museum 1745 West Nursery Road Linthicum Hts, MD 21090-2906 More Info… https://sites.google.com/site/technoswapfest2/ Entrance Donation: Adults $5, Kids under 16 FREE Seller’s Table: $10 (limited number, reserve early) Club Sponsorship: FREE (just send […] Read more
We hosted our first CNC/Makerbot User Group meeting. A special thanks goes out to Brian Dolge for organizing the event and making it a success. We had a great turnout with about 20+ people in attendance. Marty McGuire demonstrated his Makerbot by drawing on Post-Its with a Sharpie. Harford Hackerspace demonstrated their CNC Milling machine […] Read more
Chris has been dabbling with CPLD’s and FPGA’s. He wanted to share some helpful resources with anyone else looking to get started with them as well. Difference between CPLDs and FPGAs: http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-fpga-and-cpld/ VHDL Tutorial: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ese171/vhdl/vhdl_primer.html Xilinx ISE Software (Windows or Linux, 32 & 64 bit available) http://www.xilinx.com/tools/designtools.htm Digilent Xilinx FPGA Board: http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,790&Prod=BASYS2 Digilent Xilinx CPLD […] Read more