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Arduino Course Saturday 2 February

Introduction to Arduino Course for February 2nd is fully booked! We will have another session in March so watch this space! For those who have booked: The course cost is R600 and includes the Arduino UNO, cable, breadboard and everything you would need to complete this course. You can pay either on the day in…

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The ZS6BVR “End-fed” “SlimJim” as receiving Antenna for the SDR Receiver

This antenna is designed to give you 3dB gain over a dipole and its omni-directional  for use with your SDR receiver Its so easy to make antennas with different lengths I used Banana sockets so you can make many antennas of different lengths for the different bands giving you gain as well as a frequency…

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Round 2 of 3d printer builds kicks off today

Peter has been working day and night to prepare for round 2 of the 3d printer builds.  The first round saw most people completing PrintrBots and it seems that the Ecksbot has found some favour in this round.  There is also a couple of custom builts and hackers were given these four options when enrolling:…

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