The next Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Tuesday, June 12th:
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/251388578/
Hope to see you there!
664 W Lake St Chicago, IL 60661
Chicago
Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire this Saturday, May 5th
We are proud to be a sponsor of Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire 2018 this Saturday, May 5th, at Carl Schurz High School:
Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire
the first and largest officially licensed Maker Faire in the Chicagoland area. We are a local, grassroots celebration of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) spirit in Chicago, focusing on education across all ages and social groups. Our makers represent a mix of beginners and experts, hobbyists and professionals, groups and individuals, and all ages, backgrounds, and interests. With a shoestring budget and only a dream, our inaugural Mini Maker Faire in April, 2012 was a smashing success thanks to the 50+ makers who shared their talents in 3D printing, robotics, jewelry making, and urban farming, just to name a few. Now with close to 100 makers, we’re still growing. Comeexperience it for yourself!
MSI Chicago Mini Maker Faire on Saturday, March 31st
Tomorrow, Saturday March 31st, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago:
MSI Chicago Mini Maker Faire
On Saturday, March 31 we’re keeping our doors open from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. as we host the MSI Chicago Mini Maker Faire! Join some of the most fascinating, curious people—from engineers and artists, to scientists and crafters—in a celebration of local maker culture. Learn how to become an innovator yourself by speaking one-on-one with makers, and leave inspired and ready to invent.
Look for our Drew Fustini in purple!
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago on Wednesday, March 28th
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Wednesday, March 28th! Come hang out with our Drew Fustini and many more:
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/248935521/
Hardware Happy Hour Chicago on 11/28
The next Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago will be this Tuesday, November 28th:
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/245138936/
Hope to see you there!
Hologram.io: Open-Sourcing Our Hardware
Ben Strahan of Hologram.io writes about why development hardware should be open source:
Open-Sourcing Our Hardware
It’s a simple premise – black boxes stifle innovation while open systems encourage exploration. Black Boxes and IP have their place as an essential tool in our economy; but in an industry like IoT where rapid innovation is needed, we need to push for open development tools as the building blocks that lead to innovative end-products for industry and consumers.
Going forward Hologram will open-source all hardware we develop for the developer community, including dependent firmware, through OSHWA. We see this as a mandatory step we need to take to help move IoT forward, to lower the barriers to entry, and to spur innovation in a rapidly evolving ecosystem.
The hardware design files for the new Hologram Nova module are available on GitHub:
Hologram Nova Hardware Repository
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago this Tuesday
This Tuesday night, August 15th, is Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago!
Join Drew Fustini and more at St. Lou’s Assembly (664 West Lake Street):
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/242484184/
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago for June 2017
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago was excellent this past Tuesday at Saint Lou’s!
Sebastian Gajate was in town all the way from Argentina and presented The Amp Hour host Chris Gammell with his own fútbol jersey!
Thanks to Andrew Sowa bringing his camera and taking the above shot and many more wonderful photos. Bart Dring brought his latest CNC build: a drawing robot based on Line-us.
Here the draw bot in action:
Brian Rutkowski’s impressive LED spinner project was a crowd pleaser!
From Anitmated GIF gallery https://goo.gl/photos/AAEzxYTGQ3sq3H8s5
Photo by Andrew Sowa
Watch more of the dazzling LEDs in this video:
The adorable Simula robot by Jamie Laing was another favorite:
Simula made several new friends:
We were excited to get a look at the purple PCB inside:
Andrew Sowa showed the results of his technique in KiCad for converting photos into PCB artwork
We were excited to meet Jose Ignacio Romero who had designed the Low Power Continuity Tester for the One Square Inch contest on Hackaday.io last year. He brought many projects to share including this color memory LCD board:
Peter Zieba of Analytics Lounge community lab demonstrated XRF (X-ray fluorescence)!
View more photos in these galleries:
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago for June 2017
The next Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Tuesday, June 13th, 6:30pm at St. Lou’s Assembly:
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/240425517/
Here’s some photos from the previous meetups:
Build a Synthesizer with Darcy Neal in Chicago
Darcy Neal will lead a workshop in Chicago on building your own synthesizer:
https://www.meetup.com/Solder-Stitch-And-Code/events/238959615/
We’ll learn about some of the building blocks of creating a synthesizer using the 4046 VCO and the classic 40106 CMOS ICs. The 4046 is a well documented and powerful IC that can be turned into a modular synth voice with just a few added components. Participants will learn to solder together their own prototyping PCB, build a circuit on a breadboard from a schematic, experiment with sensors, and learn the basics about how to produce custom circuit boards using design software like Kicad and Fritzing. No experience is necessary, but basic electronic knowledge or a strong interest in synths will be helpful.
OSH Park 