3D printing has started to become the talk of the town; so why not throw a workshop and teach others how to use it for their own personal projects? After all, we have 2 of them and have spawned about 18 of these self replicating machines with many other prototypes, trinkets, gadgets, and gizmos that […]
Posts Tagged ‘Arduinos’
Arduino Class at Communikey Festival
April 29th, 2012 
lizbaumann
On Friday April 27, Solid State Depot teamed up with SparkFun and the CU Hackerspace Club to offer an Intro to Arduino class as part of the Communikey Festival. The class was held at the CU-Boulder campus in the ATLAS building. About 15 students attended. Dave from SparkFun led the instruction and did a wonderful […]
Arduino Workshops
March 16th, 2012 admin
Saturday March 17 from 11 am – 2 pm we will be having an Arduino workshop. It will be a combination of “learn basic Arduino” and “train the teachers”. Joel is bringing several Protosnaps for the basic Arduino instruction, cost details forthcoming. March 24 or 31 we are planning for a more advanced Arduino workshop, […]
Our First Basic Arduino Workshop
December 6th, 2011 lizbaumann
On Saturday we held our first workshop on the popular open-source electronics prototyping platform, the Arduino. We plan to offer this intro workshop again along with some more advanced Arduino workshops as well in 2012. While we certainly had a few bumps – fresh snow, one of our instructors unable to attend, a late start […]
Project Update
April 22nd, 2011 lizbaumann
There’s been a lot of activity at the space lately and here are just a few of the awesome projects happening here: Plans are underway for us to hold a light-your-bike workshop on a Saturday afternoon in May. We are thinking of having 2 projects people can choose from, one pretty easy for novices in […]
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Tags: Ardouija, Arduinos, autoponics, boulder hackerspace, hydroponics, lasers, light painting, sifteo, solar steam engine, spray paint art, thermoforming, wearable technology 
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Reason # 1 Why Hackerspaces Rock – The people
March 30th, 2011 admin
This post has been a little over due, not a little, a lot and thanks to Dan’s persistence here it is. During February I was searching for ways to create more permanent arduino based solutions when I stumbled upon a neat kit from a Hackerspace out in Provo Utah named The Transistor. I contacted them before I purchased […]
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Wearable LEDs Update
March 6th, 2011 admin
Just a quick note on a couple of our wearable technology (WT) projects: Liz’s raincoat and John’s top hat. Raincoat: This was Liz’s first real WT project taken to completion, and there was definitely some “pound to fit, paint to match” involved in order to meet her goal of having it ready in time to […]
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eTextiles Workshop
January 20th, 2011 admin
Reposted from Hackerspace member Liz’s blog The Path Not Taken When I was a senior in high school I had plans to be a fashion designer. I earned some college credit in fashion attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago one summer. I designed and made some of the clothes I wore. I […]
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