Month: December 2011

USBuino / Hack the future

    Toby and I met up on Thursday and devised the USBuino – combining the Arduino Pro-mini with the USB shield.  It is  a single board with full Arduino and USB capability! We can think of a couple of applications and high on the priority list is the cellbot-racer :  

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3d-printer update – it’s alive

Jossekin (mostly) and I continued the 3d printer build and managed to get to the point where we manually control the x,y and z axis.  Marius helped me to shoot a short video using my phone – so apologies in advance for the quality 🙂 To make up for this, I found a creepy soundtrack…

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Basic Electronics Course – Saturday 10 December

Due to popular demand :-), we are planning to have the Basic Electronics Course this Saturday the 10th. Nick will be presenting this course and as per his mail will cover 1. transistor ac & dc amplifiers Emitter followers , darlington pairs , inverters 2. Op-Amps (741 / 747s) 3. D/A converter using OP/amps ,…

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