Robot Fest 2010 has come and gone. Some of the many interesting exhibits this year included the pneumatic rocket experience provided by the Baltimore Node, the many Lego Mindstorms projects, Maker Bot demonstrations, various art demonstrations, and a fashion show. Make coverage and more pics here. We’d like to thank everyone that stopped by our […] Read more
Congratulations Eileen Barnett! Eileen is the winner of Harford Hackerspace’s first ever raffle and she is the proud new owner of an iRobot Roomba. She also received Hacking Roomba book. When we first contacted Eileen she thought we were pulling her leg. Once she overcame the initial shock and realized she had actually won, Eileen […] Read more
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Paul King has created the first tutorial called “Using the PICkit2: As a Programmer” of his planned series of PICkit 2 tutorials. This one covers setting up the MPLAB software and PICkit 2 programmer to quickly compile and program the 44 Pin PICkit2 Demo Boards. Subsequent tutorials will cover using the programmer hardware as a […] Read more
Around the space, we have been using the PICkit 2 Debug Express quite a bit lately. This has allowed us to get pretty cozy with the functions of this handy little programmer and I thought I would share some of these features with you. I’m sure you’ve read the previous tutorial ‘Programming PIC Microcontrollers in […] Read more