Month: September 2018

Maker Faire NY Panel: Ask a Maker!

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From  on the Evil Mad Scientist blog:

Maker Faire NY Panel: Ask a Maker!

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I’m excited to be hosting an “Ask a Maker!” panel at Maker Faire New York. The panel will be on Saturday, September 22 at 3:30 pm on the Make: Frontiers stage. My guests will include Jimmy DiResta, Sophy Wong, and Matt Stultz.

I’ll be accepting audience questions for these amazing makers with a broad range of skills and experiences. If you have questions but aren’t going to be at Maker Faire NY, you can submit them in the comments here, or send them to me by email. Questions about aspects of making including processes, tools, inspiration, sourcing, design, and techniques are all welcome. I’ll accept questions about genres of making including electronics, woodworking, sewing, digital fabrication, papercraft, writing, video making, cooking and more.

The rest of the schedule of performances and talks looks amazing, and there is a great group of makers showing their projects as well. Hope to see you there!

Maker Faire NY Panel: Ask a Maker!

Advanced Techniques For Using Git With KiCAD

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For most developers “distributed version control” probably means git. But by itself git doesn’t work very well with binary files such as images, zip files and the like because git doesn’t know how to make sense of the structure of an arbitrary blobs of bytes. So when trying to figure out how to track changes in design files created by most EDA tools git doesn’t get the nod and designers can be trapped in SVN hell. It turns out though KiCAD’s design files may not have obvious extensions like .txt, they are fundamentally text files (you might know that if you’ve ever tried to work around some of KiCAD’s limitations). And with a few tweaks from [jean-noël]’s guideyou’ll be diffing and merging your .pro’s and .sch’s with aplomb.

via Advanced Techniques For Using Git With KiCAD — Hackaday

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Building Radical Haptics

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This weekend at World Maker Faire New York:
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Building Radical Haptics by Noah Feehan

LOCATION: Zone 3 in Make: Electronics by Digi-Key

TIME: Saturday, September 22, 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Add weird, changeable textures to your next project with the WEFT electrovibration library and dev board.

We’ll go over the fundamentals behind the texture effect, how the circuit is built, and how best to design textures and electrodes for working with this radical haptics technology.

WEFT project website

Our Drew Fustini should be in the audience… look for the person in purple!

Building Radical Haptics

PocketBeagle workshop this Friday at Maker Faire New York

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Register for PocketBeagle coding workshop this Friday with Jason Kridner  of BeagleBoard.org at Maker Faire New York:

Getting Started with PocketBeagle® from BeagleBoard.org® Hands-On Coding Workshop​

via PocketBeagle workshop this Friday at Maker Faire New York — BeagleBoard.org Blog

 

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Maker Faire New York meetups this week

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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!

Maker Faire New York meetups this week

#BringAHack New York with BeagleBoard.org before Maker Faire

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This Friday evening before Maker Faire New York:

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#BringAHack New York with BeagleBoard.org before Maker Faire

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.

DATE AND TIME

Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:00 PM –

Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 1:00 AM EDT

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LOCATION

Leaf Bar & Lounge

133-42 39th Ave, Roof

Queens, NY 11354

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#BringAHack New York with BeagleBoard.org before Maker Faire

Portland Mini Maker Faire this weekend (Sept 15th-16th)

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This weekend, September 15th – 16th, is Portland Mini Maker Faire at OMSI!

Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to show hobbies, experiments, projects.

When: Saturday & Sunday, September 15 & 16, 2018, 9:30am-5:30pm

Where: OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR

Tickets: $16/adult (14-62); $10/youth (3-13); $10/senior (63+) OMSI members receive 50% off. (discount applied at checkout)

For Saturday tickets click here.

For Sunday tickets click here.

 

Portland Mini Maker Faire this weekend (Sept 15th-16th)

Pocket Pi project by Facelesstech

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From the Facelesstech blog:

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Pocket Pi

So if you have been following my blog lately you may have noticed me rambling on about trying to get a Xbox 360 chat pad and an ps3 keypad working with a raspberry pi to make a portable terminal. I have finally finished my quest so join me below to see how I did it

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Hardware

  • Raspberry pi zero w
  • 3.5″ waveshare clone
  • Rii Mini 518 Bluetooth keyboard
  • Bluetooth dongle
  • Power bank board
  • 2600mAh lipo battery
  • DIY USB hub
  • DIY interface PCB for screen
  • Acrylic
  • Various stand-offs

Raspberry pi zero w a 3.5″ screen a power bank board and a bluetooth keyboard is that makes up this pocket terminal.

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