I just want to thank everyone who helped make the Open House happen. I want to thank everyone who joined us and hope you come again. For everyone else, here is a bunch of pictures of what you missed. We shot lasers, we crashed the go cart, we made beer (not in that order however). […] Read more
During last night’s Open Hack Night, while trying to explain things like how transistors and mosfets work, it was discussed that maybe taking a step back and outlining some of the basics of electronics would be beneficial to everyone. So I decided to start with Ohms Law. There are 3 things that Ohms Law deals […] Read more
Just playing around with the iPad app Animoog, which I believe is still available for $0.99 at the iTunes app store. This is a huge bargain on a really really cool app. I won’t get into the specifics of the app, but if you want to know more about what Animoog is or how to use […] 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
If you’ve ever come across an OpenSource or OpenHardware project then you have probably heard of Sourcforge. I have to admit that I have know about Sorceforge and (Sub)version Control for years but I could never figure out why someone would want to use something so complex. I finally figured it out…it’s because Sourceforge and Version control is not at […] Read more