This is the follow up class to our Electronics 101 class. We will be looking at resistor networks including: series circuits, parallel circuits, combination of series and parallel circuits and how to analyze all of these.
What you should bring: If you have a small breadboard and a laptop computer, you should bring them. If you don’t have a breadboard or laptop, we will have some for you to use at the class.
This is an electronics class for the absolute beginner – we will cover many basic concepts such as:
Current
Voltage
Resistance
Ohm’s Law
Power
Measurement tools
Breadboards – How to use them to prototype circuits
Circuit diagrams and circuit elements
If you’ve never heard of these concepts, or have heard of them but don’t understand them, then this class is for you!
What you should bring: If you have a small breadboard and a laptop computer, you should bring them. If you don’t have a breadboard or laptop, we will have some for you to use at the class.
Workshop 88 is offering a follow-up to the Introduction to the Arduino class featuring a concentration on interfacing the arduino with various sensors and learning to use the serial protocol with the arduino. If you already have an arduino, you have all the materials you’ll need for this class. If you need to get an arduino, please see the Workshop 88 Arduino Store.
Every Thursday night we have our public meeting starting at 7:00 pm. Meetings are always free and open to the public. Come build something with us!
The vinyl cutter is now cutting accurately! Here is a video of the first cut that it made:
And here’s the result of the cut:
What are you going to make with the vinyl cutter?
Workshop 88 is offering our introduction to the Arduino platform at our makerspace in Glen Ellyn. Class attendees will learn how to configure their arduino programming environment, how to design simple circuits for interfacing with the arduino and how to write simple programs to control the arduino. What is Arduino, you ask? From their home page:
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
If you need to get an arduino, please see the Workshop 88 Arduino Store. Sales from that store are fulfilled by amazon.com, and help support Workshop 88. Alternatively, you can order Arduino systems from several places, including Adafruit and Sparkfun. Both companies have lots of tutorials and howtos to get you started with Arduinos. If you’re looking for a local source to get Arduinos, try Trossen Robotics.
What you’ll get from this class: If you choose the registration + materials option, we will have an arduino and assortment of electronics components for you to take home after the class. (The Workshop 88 Arduino Store is by far a cheaper route to get supplies.)
In this class you will learn how to start programming in the Arduino environment including interacting with the inputs and outputs of the Arduino.
You should bring: a laptop with the Arduino environment downloaded installed.
Please contact us (info@workshop88.com) if you have any questions.
Image credit: By Linuswiki (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
We are thrilled to be a part of the Open Source Mechatronics Outreach & Creative Exchange Symposium (OSMOCES) on October 13th at the IIT Rice campus in Wheaton. We’ll be there showing off some stuff we’ve been working on as well as running our introduction to Arduino workshop. See you there!
Workshop 88 is thrilled to have 2DKits back to host a FREE learn to solder workshop with their blinkie kits. This workshop will be FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC. Did we mention the event is FREE? You only need to pay for the cost of the materials in the kit. (Hey, if the materials were free, we’d give them away.)
Info from 2DKits:
What is Build-A-Blinkie and why are we doing this?
Our goal is to demystify electronic circuits. They are amazing pieces of technology that control vast areas of our lives. The complexity can be so great (take your cell phone for example) the technology is indistinguishable from magic. Well, we can do something about that! With building a blinkie, you get to build a circuit that does something interesting, with the satisfaction of doing it yourself. In the process we hope you gain an understanding of how they work, as well as a desire to learn more.
Never soldered before?
No problem – we provide as much or as little assistance as you require. We guarantee you will leave with a working blinkie. Thousands of kits have been built by folks of all skill levels in our workshops, and all will end up with a working blinkie.
We have easy-to-build blinkies for beginners that take minutes to assemble. We have blinkies of an intermediate skill level for those who have built them (or other electronic circuits before). And we have blinkies for those who desire both a challenge as well as an opportunity to build a work of art.
You asked for it; we’re making it happen! On Saturday, September 8th at 1:00 pm in the afternoon, we will be hosting a class on how to use the 3D printer at Workshop 88. Are you just interested in seeing how 3D printers work? Stop by and check it out! As always, this class is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Questions? Email us: info@workshop88.com
The class will show how to go from some simple geometric description to a real printed object using workshop 88′s CupCake 3D printer. We’ll briefly describe using Sketchup to create a 3D model, then show how to convert to printable (.stl) format, compile to gcode, and print the object. We’ll show the parts of the printer, how to turn it on, how it’s controlled, and how to print an object. When class is done, you should feel fairly comfortable experimenting with the printer, and have an idea about what you can do with it.
Workshop 88 is offering a follow-up to the Introduction to the Arduino class featuring a concentration on interfacing the arduino with various sensors and learning to use the serial protocol with the arduino. If you already have an arduino, you have all the materials you’ll need for this class. If you need to get an arduino, please see the Workshop 88 Arduino Store.