An Intro to KiCad – Part 6: Place Parts and Define Outline:
In Part 6 of the Digi-Key Introduction to KiCad series Shawn walks us through the board layout stage with pcbnew. Shawn will show us how to import a net list, arrange components, draw a board outline, and make trace connections.
#bringahack Bay Area is this Sunday evening, May 20th! Please join us for this wonderful tradition that Jeri Ellsworth started:
2206 Bridgepoint Parkway
San Mateo, CA 94404
650-931-2990
Check out last year for some inspiration:
Didn’t get enough hardware hacking fun at Teardown this past weekend? Dorkbot PDX is 7:00pm TONIGHT (Monday, May 14th) at Ctrl-H PDX hackerspace!
The address for Ctrl-H is:
7608 N Interstate
Portland, OR 97217
Check out the Meetup event page for more information and look for our Drew Fustini in purple!
https://www.meetup.com/CTRL-H/events/wfktgpyxhbsb/
Part hackathon, part geek social, these biweekly meetings are a time for you to come join others for insight, inspiration or just insanity.
Bring your toys for others to see, or come see what others have been painstakingly chipping away at in their spare time.
Whether it’s code or chips, hacking of all sorts is encouraged. But we also like to hear your crazy ideas, so please come join us and bring your willingness to share your brilliance.
We’ll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.
p.s. This event is open to everyone, dork or robot. No ^H membership is required to attend.
Maker Faire Bay Area is this weekend, and the Hackaday and Tindie crew are getting ready to jack some cupcake cars. The Bay Area Maker Faire is one of the greatest gatherings of…
via This Weekend: Hackaday x Tindie Meetup At Bay Area Maker Faire. — Hackaday
There’s a few open source options out there for creating electrical schematics. KiCad and Fritzing are two that will take you from schematic capture to PCB layout.
via QElectroTech: An Open Source Wiring Diagram Tool — Hackaday
Teardown hardware hacking con starts today in Portland! Follow @oshpark on Twitter for updates and look for our Drew Fustini in purple. Check out the sessions page to see all the exciting people that will be presenting and running workshops!
| Who? | Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, students, teachers… |
| What? | A three-day line up of talks, workshops, demos, installations, and puzzles |
| When? | Friday – Sunday, May 11 – 13, 2018 |
| Where? | Beautiful Portland, Oregon on the campus of the Pacific Northwest College of Art |
| Why? | Shipping great hardware to you is rewarding, but we miss seeing you in person |
| How? | With lots of help from our friends, including our partner, Make+Think+Code @ PNCA |
Teardown runs from the afternoon of Friday, May 11, 2018 through the night of Sunday, May 13, 2018. We encourage all participants to attend the entire time – plan to arrive Friday around noon and leave Monday morning. Below is the preliminary schedule.
Registration opens at 11:30 AM.
| Time | Title | Presenter | Type | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30-10PM | Attendee Led Event | You | Event | Hammer Board Room |
| 12:30-2:30PM | Klaxberger Gearheads E-recycling | Shawn Price | Workshop | Atrium |
| 12:30-2:30PM | Modular Hardware for 3D Printing (part 1) | Jesse Jenkins | Talk | MTC Shop |
| 12:30-2:30PM | Transfer Secret Messages Through Light with OpticSpy and Tomu | Joe Grand and Sean Cross | Workshop | MTC Classroom |
| 2:30-3PM | Welcome and Kickoff | Josh Lifton | Talk | Mediatheque |
| 3-4PM | Do-it-Yourself Artificial Intelligence | Alasdair Allan | Talk | Mediatheque |
| 4-6PM | Breadboard to PCB | Monica Houston | Workshop | Room 511 |
| 4-6PM | Hacking with RISC-V | Drew Barbier and Meadhbh Hamrick | Workshop | Room 514 |
| 4-4:30PM | Santa Cruz to Seattle with 2.5 Tons of Electron Microscope: A How To | Adam McCombs | Talk | Room 510 |
| 4:30-5PM | PLM: Hardware’s Source Control Management | Jake Janovetz | Talk | Room 510 |
| 5-6PM | Beginner Circuit Board Design with KiCad | Ken Olsen | Talk | Room 510 |
| 6-7PM | Dinner (on your own) | Event | ||
| 7-8PM | Hebocon Robot Sumo | Adrian Choy | Event | Mediatheque |
| 8-10PM | Construction DJ Set | Nadya Peek | Event | Mediatheque |
| Time | Title | Presenter | Type | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9AM | Breakfast (provided) | Event | Atrium | |
| 9-10AM | Open Source Space: what’s happening, including OreSat, Oregon’s first CubeSat | Andrew Greenberg | Talk | Mediatheque |
| 10-noon | Rapid Prototyping and Linux Kernel Development with the PocketBeagle® Platform | Robert Nelson | Workshop | MTC Classroom |
| 10-11AM | Applications of the Software Defined Radio | Danny Webster | Talk | Room 511 |
| 10-11AM | Proto-pasta Filament: How Hardware Access Fuels Material Innovation | Alexander Dick | Talk | Room 514 |
| 11-11:30AM | Embedded Hardware Development with Rust | Jacob Creedon | Talk | Room 511 |
| 11-11:30AM | Hexabitz: Modularity from Nature to Electronics | Asaad Kaadan | Talk | Room 514 |
| 11:30-noon | Bits to Atoms, the Making of ‘Be Still, My Low Poly Heart’ | Ben Purdy | Talk | Room 511 |
| 11:30-noon | Open Pitch Sessions | Josh Lifton | Event | Room 514 |
| 12-1PM | Lunch (provided) | Event | Atrium | |
| 1-2PM | Bunnie’s Keynote | Andrew “bunnie” Huang | Talk | Mediatheque |
| 2-10PM | Attendee Led Event | You | Event | Room 513 |
| 2-4PM | WTFPGA (part 1) | Joe FitzPatrick | Workshop | MTC Classroom |
| 2-2:30PM | Creating Conference Badges | Jay Margalus | Talk | Room 511 |
| 2-2:30PM | Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Open Source Electronics | Andrew Greenberg | Talk | Room 514 |
| 2:30-3PM | Futel: A Technology So Advanced We Leave It Out On The Street All Night | Karl Anderson | Talk | Room 511 |
| 2:30-3PM | Transforming New Product Development with Open Hardware | Stephano Cetola | Talk | Room 514 |
| 3-3:30PM | DFM with your CM: How to save time and money | Andy LaFrazia | Talk | Room 511 |
| 3-3:30PM | Signet: An Implementation Walkthrough, Hacking Possibilities, and Future Development | Neils Nesse | Talk | Room 514 |
| 3:30-4PM | Hacking Appliances and Prototyping Next-Generation Technology with Netduino and Xamarin | Bryan Costanich | Talk | Room 511 |
| 3:30-4PM | Making Open Source Schematics Not Suck | Andrew Greenberg | Talk | Room 514 |
| 4-4:15PM | Snacks (provided) | Event | Atrium | |
| 4:15-6:15PM | WTFPGA (part 2) | Joe FitzPatrick | Workshop | MTC Classroom |
| 4:15-5:15PM | Programming for the Eye: Understanding Graphics and Light | Zach Archer | Talk | Room 511 |
| 4:15-5:15PM | Quick Enclosure Design with Fusion 360 | Kevin Schneider | Talk | Room 514 |
| 5:15-6:15PM | Eating Rabbits: A Guide to Using Python to Conquer FPGA Video Systems | Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell | Talk | Room 511 |
| 5:15 – 6:15 | KiCad: Designing With Complex Shapes | Andrew Sowa | Talk | Room 514 |
| 6:15 – 7:15 | Dinner (on your own) | Event | ||
| 7:15-10PM | Roof with a View | Event | Autodesk – 221 SE Ankeny St | |
| 9-10PM | Glow Up Your LEGO with Open Source Electronics | Rachel Hellenga | Workshop | Autodesk – 221 SE Ankeny St |
| Time | Title | Presenter | Type | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9AM | Breakfast (provided) | Event | Atrium | |
| 9AM-10PM | Attendee Led Event | You | Event | Hammer Board Room |
| 9-9:30AM | How to Think About Security for Your Hardware Project | Joe FitzPatrick | Talk | Mediatheque |
| 9:30-10AM | Dr. Frankendrive or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Recover Data | Nik Lyons | Talk | Mediatheque |
| 10-11AM | PCB Portrait Workshop | Andrew Sowa | Workshop | MTC Classroom |
| 10-10:30AM | Firmware: Hardware’s Sneaky Passenger | Chau Doan | Talk | Room 510 |
| 10-10:30AM | Searching for the Light: Using OpticSpy to Receive Optical Transmissions | Joe Grand | Talk | Room 511 |
| 10:30-11AM | How to Build a BOM: Sourcing and Open Source | Nadya Peek | Talk | Room 510 |
| 10:30-11AM | How to Make Your Own Designs Hackable | Greg Peek | Talk | Room 511 |
| 11-noon | More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers, and JavaScript | George Mandis | Talk | Room 510 |
| 11-11:30AM | Learning Electronics and Software: The Cheesy Way | Alvaro Prieto | Talk | Room 511 |
| 11:30-noon | Hacking Health: Open Source Hardware and Medical Devices | Ashwin K Whitchurch | Talk | Room 511 |
| 12-1PM | Lunch (provided) | Event | Atrium | |
| 1-3PM | A Definitive Guide to Building Production Hardware in EAGLE | Matt Berggren | Workshop | MTC Classroom |
| 1-3PM | MicroPython on the ESP8266 | Thomas Hudson | Workshop | Room 513 |
| 1-3PM | Signet Development Workshop | Neils Nesse | Workshop | Room 514 |
| 2:30-3PM | Design and Reverse Engineering: Playing on Both Sides of the Field | Jeremy Hong | Talk | Room 511 |
| 3-4PM | State of the Crowd | Josh Lifton | Talk | Mediatheque |
| 4-4:15PM | Snacks (provided) | Event | Atrium | |
| 4:15-6:15PM | More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers, and JavaScript (Workshop) | George Mandis | Workshop | Room 514 |
| 4:15-6:15PM | HeartyPatch Workshop | Ashwin K Whitchurch | Workshop | MTC Classroom |
| 4:15-6:15PM | Modular Hardware for 3D Printing (part 2) | Jesse Jenkins | Workshop | MTC Shop |
| 4:15-6:15PM | Open Pitch Session/Lightning Talks | Josh Lifton | Event | Mediatheque |
| 6:15-7:15PM | Dinner (on your own) | Event | ||
| 7:15-10:00PM | Closing Party | Event | TBA |
| Title | Presenter | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monolith Synth with LED Visualization | Paul Stoffregen | Atrium |
| The Little Purple Painting with the Little OLED Screen | Daniel Block | Atrium |
| Just Intonation Keyboard | Jim Snow | Atrium |
| Mustache Mayhem | Joe Grand | Atrium |
| Futel Public Telephone | Karl Anderson | Atrium |
| You’re Awesome | Kat Miller | Atrium |
| Be Still, My Low Poly Heart | Ben Purdy | Atrium |
Low cost spectrometer project by Kris Winer on Hackaday.io:
AMS’s new AS7265X 3-chip set promises a compact, 18-channel, 20 nm FWMH spectrometer for less than $25
From Brian Benchoff on the Hackaday blog:
Scientific equipment is expensive. It can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up a lab. Simply the cost of machines, like data acquisition units or even a simple load cell, can cost hundreds of dollars. This makes research cost prohibitive, and that’s the case even if you do spend a dozen hours a week writing grant proposals. Citizen science is right out, because the cost of the tools to do science is so high.
For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re going to be talking about Open Hardware for science. This is the chat that’s all about Open Source equipment, hardware modular electronics, and Open designs to make the tools that make science.
Our guest for this week’s Hack Chat is [Dr. Alexxai Kravitz]. He has a PhD in Neuroscience from UPenn and completed a postdoc at the Gladstone Institutes in San Fransisco. [Lex]’s research focuses on understanding the reward circuitry in the brain, and his publications use a variety of experiments to examine this, including behavioral testing, in vivo electrophysiology, and optogenetics.
For this Hack Chat, we’re going to about how Open Source has made more science possible. Of note, we’ll be discussing:
- What Open Source science equipment is being used today
- The initiatives behind Open Source Hardware for science applications
- Scientific application that could benefit from Open Hardware
You are, of course, encouraged to add your own questions to the discussion. You can do that by leaving a comment on the Hack Chat Event Page and we’ll put that in the queue for the Hack Chat discussion.
Teardown hardware con starts this Friday, May 11th, in Portland, Oregon. The schedule has been posted and there are lots of great speakers and workshops:
Teardown runs from the afternoon of Friday, May 11, 2018 through the night of Sunday, May 13, 2018. We encourage all participants to attend the entire time – plan to arrive Friday around noon and leave Monday morning. Below is the preliminary schedule.
Arduino Day is on 12th of May and celebrating at near 500 locations all around the world. TuxCon and Smarty Kids foundation are participating in this initiative and organize event in Plovdiv in Grand center from 15.00 to 17.30. The event is free and anyone can participate and learn how to program ESP8266-EVB boards with Arduino and […]
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