The folks over at arduino.cc have a "project hub" which is a great place to get ideas and inspiration for a summer microelectronics project. We are really excited to launch Arduino Project Hub, our tutorial platform powered by hackster.io. We cannot wait to [...]
We had a great start to our Thursday night tech series last week. This week we will move the early meetup for kids and newbie adult programmers back a half hour to now start at 5:30. This will give some [...]
Please join us Thursday evening between 7 and 9pm for a series of demonstrations on the practical use and power of the simple Arduino microcontroller. Rick will show how to use a moisture sensor to notify you of wet or [...]
Our Introduction to Microelectronics class is back this winter, starting Tuesday at 7pm. This class will bump our CoderDojo meetup to Thursday evenings at 7pm. Dojo Ninjas are also welcome to meet on Saturday mornings at 10, when we will [...]
So, Minecraft is looking more and more like a great programming platform, for kids of all ages and old geeks like me. You see, I've been a software hacker for 38 years. By hacker, I mean I'm not a professional [...]
The Arduino is a small inexpensive microcontroller that can be used in a wide variety of engineering, arts, and crafts projects. Any project that interfaces or interacts with the physical world can probably benefit from using an Arduino, with sensors, [...]
One of the drawbacks to starting a project to deploy data collecting apps in the field is the cost of the data plan. You can use a pre paid cell phone SIM card, but what if we got the price [...]
