Have you been coming to Workshop 88 public meetings on Thursday nights? If you haven’t been yet, or it’s been awhile since you’ve been in, you may be surprised to see all the stuff that is going on at the meetings each week.
Thanks to Workshop 88 member Bill Paulson for snapping the photos last week!
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 and installed. Please contact us (info@workshop88.com) if you have any questions.
Image credit: By Linuswiki (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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
The ShapeOko now has home and limit switches for both X and Y axes. (Z is a little different.) The linuxcnc config has been updated to handle the new switches, though a little tweaking is still needed. Here’s a picture of Y axis switches while the epoxy cured:
We’ve got a new chat service that we’re trying out. Come try it out at https://workshop88.talkerapp.com/r/cf009d