Maker Faire New York meetups this week

September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 fustini3d printing, BeagleBoard.org, Kickstarter, Maker Faire, meetup, new york, wmfny18Leave a comment

Saturday, September 22nd: 6:00pm – 9:00pm: DIY Content Creators meetup hosted by Make Jagger Where: Mikkeller Brewing NYC, 123-01 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing, NY 11368 https://www.instagram.com/p/BnuZB5vFlpq/

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bringahack-new-york-with-beagleboardorg-before-maker-faire-tickets-49521195228

https://www.meetup.com/MatterHackers-Open-House-3D-Printing-Meetup/events/253465994/

https://www.meetup.com/MakeIt-NYC/events/254160876/

https://www.meetup.com/MatterHackers-Open-House-3D-Printing-Meetup/events/253817721/

Here’s a list of meetups that may be of interest to those that are in New York for World Maker Faire week and weekend:

Thursday, September 20th:

6:30pm – 8:30pm: Kickstarter x Hackaday: HACK TUNES

Join us on Thursday, September 20th for a special pre-Maker Faire Meetup! Hackaday MakeIt NYC is once again teaming up with our friends at Kickstarter, this time bringing you a night of awesome music hacks, snacks and more!

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Pre-Maker Faire Meetup at Fat Cat Fab Lab

We’re heading East! Join MatterHackers, Ultimaker, and more community friends to kick off Maker Faire New York at Fat Cat Fab Lab for a discussion on different kinds of “Make” with some of your favorite Content Creators. Pizza, refreshments, and great conversation will be provided! All ages are allowed for this portion of the event.

11:00pm – 2:00am: Midnight Games at Hack Manhattan

Join the Hack Manhattan “night crew” for some early morning boardgames. In the city that never sleeps, night owls and insomniacs congregate to draw cards, toss dice, move pieces, calculate odds and bluff opponents.

Friday, September 21th:

9:00 pm – 1:00 am: Bring-A-Hack at the The Leaf

To celebrate our 10 year anniversary and our love of cool hardware hacks, join us for a #BringAHack event in the Big Apple! Join BeagleBoard.org for a casual evening of drinks, snacks and hacks at the Leaf Bar the night before Maker Faire New York.

Saturday, September 22nd:

6:00pm – 9:00pm: DIY Content Creators meetup

Hosted by Make Jagger

Where: Mikkeller Brewing NYC, 123-01 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing, NY 11368

8:00pm – 12:00am: NY Maker Faire After Party

It’s Saturday night at Maker Faire NY and Manhattan is…too darn far! So we’re hanging out at the only rooftop bar in Flushing with a gorgeous view of the city skyline.

MatterHackers, BuildTak, and Fillamentum invite you to a casual cocktail meetup just 10 minutes from Maker Faire. Bring your friends and “make” new ones (…see what we did there?) as we celebrate Maker Faire!

Look for our Drew Fustini in purple!

SF Hardware Startup meetup on Wednesday

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 fustiniCrowdfunding, Kickstarter, meetup, san francisco, startupLeave a comment

The SF Hardware Startup Meetup is this Wednesday evening in San Francisco:

https://www.meetup.com/HardwareStartupSF/events/249162145/

Look for our Drew Fustini in purple!

Miasma: Classic Dual Voice Eurorack Synthesizer Module

February 17, 2018February 17, 2018 fustiniCrowdfunding, eurorack, Kickstarter, music, synth, Synthesizer, vcoLeave a comment

Miasma is a pure analog oscillator module based on the Curtis CEM3340 chips used in legendary ’80s synths, with new & innovative signal patching:

Miasma: Classic Dual Voice Eurorack Synthesizer Module

We designed the Miasma Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) to bring that classic ’80s synthesizer sound back to Eurorack modular systems. We just couldn’t find any currently available oscillators with the sound textures and capabilities that we wanted, so we had to design our own; and now you get to own one as well.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moxon/miasma-classic-dual-voice-eurorack-synthesizer-mod#

There are many unique capabilities built into Miasma that you won’t find in any other oscillator module, like the built-in patching and cross modulation structures that make Miasma so flexible in your rack. However, it’s all about the sound – so let’s start with some Miasma audio samples, before we go into the technical details of how we make that sound possible (best listening with Headphones!)

Vectrex cartridge board

November 22, 2017November 22, 2017 fustiniCrowdfunding, EPROM, game cartridge, Kickstarter, retro gaming, vectrex, video gamesLeave a comment

From Frank Buss on hackaday.io:

Vectrex cartridge

This is my first version of a PCB for building a Vectrex cartridge. I used this for my Kickstarter project for the Bloxorz game. The PCB was manufactured by @oshpark , you can order your board here.

It fits in this 3D printed case from Thingiverse (you can order it here in my Shapeways shop), or in one of the nice new injection molded cartridge shells from Sean Kelly

Frank has launched a Kickstarter campaign:

Bloxorz for Vectrex, PC, Mac, iOS and Android

A puzzle game for the Vectrex, including a version with Vectrex graphics for PC, Mac, iOS and Android

FrankBuss has shared the board on OSH Park:

vectrex.brd

NeuroBytes: Electronic Neuron Simulators

November 19, 2017November 20, 2017 fustiniCrowdfunding, education, hackaday, Kickstarter, neurobytes, neuron, nuerotinkerLeave a comment

From Brian Benchoff on the Hackaday blog:

Real-Life Electronic Neurons

NeruroBytes is not a strange platform for neural nets. It’s physical neurons, rendered in PCBs and Molex connectors. Now, finally, it’s a Kickstarter project, and one of the more exciting educational electronic projects we’ve ever seen.

Regular Hackaday readers should be very familiar with NeuroBytes. It began as a project for the Hackaday Prize all the way back in 2015. There, it was recognized as a finalist for the Best Product,

Since then, the team behind NeuroBytes have received an NHS grant, they’re certified Open Source Hardware through OSHWA, and there are now enough NeuroBytes to recreate the connectome of a flatworm. It’s doubtful the team actually has enough patience to recreate the brain of even the simplest organism, but is already an impressive feat.

The highlights of the NeuroBytes Kickstarter include seven different types of neurons for different sensory systems, kits to test the patellar reflex, and what is probably most interesting to the Hackaday crowd, a Braitenberg Vehicle chassis, meant to test the ideas set forth in Valentino Braitenberg’s book, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. If that book doesn’t sound familiar, BEAM robots probably do; that’s where the idea for BEAM robots came from.

Hackaday NYC Meetup on Thursday

September 18, 2017September 18, 2017 fustinihackaday, Kickstarter, new york, nyc, tindieLeave a comment

This is a busy, busy week for Tindie and Hackaday. We’re going to New York, and we have a ton of events planned. First up is the monthly Hackaday meetup. This time, we’re teaming up with Kickstarter for a pre-Maker Faire Meetup. We’ll be hosting this at Kickstarter’s HQ, and already we have an impressive…

via A Slew Of NYC Meetups With Tindie And Hackaday This Week — Hackaday

https://www.meetup.com/MakeIt-NYC/events/242653432/

(Drew Fustini will be there, too)

Crazy Circuits launches on Kickstarter

April 9, 2017April 5, 2017 fustiniarduino, education, Kickstarter, LEGO, microcontroller, STEM3 Comments

Crazy Circuits: Unique STEM Projects Delivered Monthly

Create fun STEM and STEAM electronics projects with parts delivered to your door.

Crazy Circuits is a non-soldering electronic learning platform that allows people to create circuits from almost any material they can imagine. Crazy Circuits are designed to pop onto LEGO™ bricks, enabling your LEGO™ creations to shine, move, and make noise. Use Crazy Circuits to construct paper crafts with conductive tape, use conductive thread for sewing, and create art with conductive inks and paints. You can even program sketches with Arduino compatible Crazy Circuits boards. No matter what you want to build, Crazy Circuits brings it all together.

Arduino-programmable ARM Cortex M4F Boards

December 26, 2016December 23, 2016 fustiniarduino, ARM, Cortex M4, Kickstarter, microcontroller, STM322 Comments

Kris Winer of Pesky Products designed these easy-to-program, high-performance and low-power dev boards:

Arduino-programmable Cortex M4F Development Boards

Program an STM32L4 Cortex M4F with the Arduino IDE via USB

Technical specifications of the Butterfly and Ladybug STM32L4 dev boards:

Microcontroller: STM32L4 ARM Cortex M4F
Clock speed: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 80 MHz
Operating voltage: 3.3V
I/O pin limits: most pins 5.0 V tolerant, 20 mA
Digital I/O pins: 22, with 11 PWM (Butterfly), 13, with 10 PWM (Ladybug)
Analog input pins: 6 (Butterfly), 5 (Ladybug), 12-bit ADC channels
Analog output pins: 2 12-bit DAC
RTC: 1 ppm accuracy
Flash memory: 256 KB
SRAM: 64 KB
Voltage regulator: 3.3-5.5V input / 3.3V, 150 mA output

New Butterfly and Ladybug add-on boards

To the left is an MPU9250 accel/gyro/magnetometer motion sensor and the BME280 pressure/humidity/temperature sensor

To the right is an ESP8266 wifi-enabled add-on board for Butterfly

Ladybug environmental data logger

Reading the BME280 and VEML6040 sensors at 0.5 Hz and outputting pressure, temperature, humidity, altitude, RGB light intensity and RTC time and date to the Sharp memory display

Simple designs make hardware customization easy

Flight Controller:

STM32L432 receives quaternions from the EM7180, which itself is master to the motion and pressure sensors, GNSS data from the CAM M8Q, then processes and packages the data and sends it to the ESP8285 via UART bridge for transmission to a hand-held controller

Industrial Diagnostics:

uses an STM32L433 as master to several slave sensors to detect and process signals from industrial equipment and report to a remote server via blue tooth

Ethernet PHY for Teensy 3.5 and 3.6

October 28, 2016October 26, 2016 fustiniEthernet, iot, Kickstarter, Networking, teensyLeave a comment

Paul Stoffregen of PJRC designed this shield as a Kickstarter reward earlier this year:

Ethernet Shield for Teensy 3.5 and 3.6

Please understand this shield has very limited software support at this time. However, Manitou’s early benchmarks show excellent performance we can someday hope to achieve as the software matures.

PaulStoffregen has shared the board on OSH Park:

The source code is available on GitHub:

PaulStoffregen/k66_ethernet

Bill of Materials:

Qty  Part                               Digikey
---  ----                               -------
1    LAN8720A                           LAN8720A-CP-CT-ND
1    CAT811T                            CAT811TTBI-GT3OSCT-ND
1    Crystal, 25 MHz                    535-13419-1-ND
1    Transformer, Pulse H1102FNL        553-2204-1-ND
1    Connector, RJ45                    A102068CT-ND
1    Capacitor, 1nF, 2000V              709-1036-1-ND
2    Capacitor, 33pF                    490-5936-1-ND
1    Capacitor, 470pF                   490-1297-1-ND
3    Capacitor, 10nF                    445-1260-1-ND
1    Capacitor, 22nF                    490-8022-1-ND
3    Capacitor, 1uF                     399-5090-1-ND
1    Resistor, 33, 1%                   311-33.0LRCT-ND
4    Resistor, 49.9, 1%                 RMCF0402FT49R9CT-ND
4    Resistor, 75, 1%                   RHM75.0HCT-ND
2    Resistor, 330, 1%                  311-330LRCT-ND
1    Resistor, 1.5K, 1%                 311-1.50KLRCT-ND
2    Resistor, 12.1K, 1%                P12.1KLCT-ND
1    Inductor, Ferrite bead             553-2387-1-ND
2    LED, Green                         475-1410-1-ND