Our WIC (Women Igniting Creativity) is taking a hiatus – possibly returning in September. If you’d like to see it come back sooner, and can help organize and host sessions, get in touch!
We’re moving the Blender meetup to THURSDAY evenings (from Wednesdays)- same time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm. This is a temporary change. We will be returning to the regular Wednesday evenings late June/early July.
Day Change for the Blender/Game Dev/VFX/… Meetup Read More »
Adrian is looking for some more games and activities to play on his creation! To speed up the creative process, Adrian has been using the WokWi interactive microcontroller simulator. This allows you to quickly create a virtual microcontroller and add other simulated components, such as LEDs, servos, and more. You create real code and can
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I was asked for some (more) resources to learn about electronics, especially those that include some details about analog circuits. Here are some personal favorites and others that have been recommended. Dick Smith’s Funway into Electronics This was my way into electronics, and one of the only books I was ever allowed to take scissors
I was recently asked How do you learn Python for system automation?
Thanks to Adrian, we have a new members board! We’ll be working on getting everyone who is willing on both!
9th January 2024 Electronics/Linux/Retrogaming Meetup At last nights meetup someone asked What online resources are there to learn the basics (fundamentals) of electronics?
We succeeded in getting a Raspberry Pi to interface with an ICS43434 MEMS microphone! Screen shot is of an example python script that is capturing and plotting live sound data. Next steps are to document this setup, and see if we can create a system to automatically detect CNC milling operations. Part of our AI
Home Schoolers Meetup 9th September 2023 Come see our Makerspace, meet others in the community, and have a chance to organize and collaborate in person! Kids welcome! Guardians: Please RSVP using the form below; it’s not mandatory but will help us gauge numbers, and arrange for helpers if needed. Mentors and Programmes: we’d love to
In our SciTech Friday’s kids group, we’ve been looking at measurements, and touching on decimals and exponents. Found this excellent ear-worm: It’s spectacular, in that “so eye-rolly, but it’s awesome!” sort if way. And best of all it works: even adults I’ve played it to can’t help singing along and discovering a prefix or two.
