Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

  • Introducing Jigbox: an interactive percussion experience for individual or groups of children

    e14 Contributor
    There are many children's toys that make sounds and flash lights. Many teach pitch but few teach rhythm.Jigsaw Renaissance Hackerspace supports kinesthetic learning of rhythm development and offers a cooperative environment for group performance and ...

  • Demo by target audience

    Hackerspace_Charlotte
    players.brightcove.net/.../index.html a student makes a FELTRONICS circuit with an LED and a buzzer

  • Great Global Hackerspace Challenge - Feltronics

    Hackerspace_Charlotte
    (with at least 10 minutes to go before midnight PST, whew!) "Feltronics" Teachers today are facing a difficult problem with far-reaching   consequences for all levels of education.  One of the world’s most   require...

  • Interactive Quiz - GGHC Week 6

    e14 Contributor
    www.youtube.com/watch After 6 weeks, our team at i3 Detroit is unveiling our submission for the GGHC, we call it Interactive Quiz. The concept is simple: a student response system (clicker) that automatically assigns students to groups to d...

  • Challenge Summary

    e14 Contributor
    Project name: EDUBRM Summary: Aim of our project was to create an open platform for teaching electronic principles. Our target audience were students of elementary and comprehensive schools interested in this field. The main idea of the pro...

  • Done !!!

    e14 Contributor
    Finally we are done. We call our project Smart Room Jr. - Kevin   < start abstract > DescriptionSmart Room Jr is and educational tool which uses a smart home as a  setting to give kids a fun and easy introduction t...

  • ...happily ever after.

    [Noisebridge]BioBoard
    Hello everyone, and welcome back for the final installment of the BioBoard blog! Today is the last day of the Great Global Hackerspace Challenge 2011, and thus our last chance to tell you about all the cool stuff we've been doing on this project over...

  • The Final Countdown...

    e14 Contributor
    ((Fighting with Element 14   ))  The think|haus entry into the Great Global Hackerspace Challenge sponsored by Element14 is finished. Mostly.think|tubes are an educational tool for use in a K-12 school setting.  They function as a...

  • Notes (for judges) on our project

    e14 Contributor
    All prior posts before this one are posted in our community profile, not on this specific project, sorry for being so lazy to proper handle your site's interface. Our circuit uses 4 'AA'/small batteries, we used specifically rechargeable or old ...

  • News after Easter

    ordos18
    Easter is gone, so we have to get back to work. Rims and forms are  ready to make wheels. At the beginning control will be implemented at  ATmega128. But we want to improve powers by using accelerometer, VNH  drivers and STM32 microcon...

  • Dalej, dalej

    ordos18
    Aktualnie niewiele się dzieje, bo na większość rzeczy musimy zaczekać. Obudowa jest już zamówiona, płytka powinna być już gotowa. Jeszcze tylko trzeba zamówić i zamontować wszystkie podzespoły do niej. A potem montowanie, pisanie, testy, testy, testy...

  • 1 year anniversary!

    NurulTaha
    Time indeed flies when you're busy!  I find it hard to believe that it was a little more than a year ago that I had the privilege of meeting Salman and Nader (of then Premier Farnell) for the first time to explore how I could be supported in my ...

  • Microblogging - crunch mode is on!

    [Noisebridge]BioBoard
    Hey folks! Just a quick peep from yours truly here to give y'all a quick insight into the hectic last-minute tinkering of the BioBoard team. We're now 2 days, 23 hours and 38 minutes from the GGHC 2011 dead-line - that'll be Tuesday 3rd May at 00:00 ...

  • Tough Going

    e14 Contributor
    Its been tough going. The electronics and coding went steadily, and surprisingly smoothly. The prototype modules are now all functioning. We have made modules for:Manual Input Module (Sagittarius) using 16 x 2 LCD with pushbutton inputLow Power Relay...

  • GGHC 2011, Week 5: The Pressure Is On

    e14 Contributor
    Schematic?  Check.  Parts ordered?  Check.  Caffine?  Check.  In the last two weeks of the Great Global Hackerspace Challenge, i3Detroiters start to piece together the real working guts of the Interactive Quiz - our grou...

  • I po świętach...

    ordos18
    Święta Wielkanocne minęły, trzeba brać się do pracy. Mamy gotowe felgi i formy do odlania opon, więc będzie można się tym zająć. Niestety jest problem z dostaniem się do zakupionego kauczuku, dopiero w piątek wieczorem będzie dla nas dostępny. Co do ...

  • Harnessing the Sun

    SamKavanagh
    Recently, the family and I packed up our Sprinter van and head south for a break from winter. Now our Sprinter van has become our trusted home base while on the road, racing and training and includes some modest sleeping arrangements for Sara, Amelia...

  • Finishing the controller board and a working keyboard

    e14 Contributor
    Okay, last week we were on full steam all the time, I've just finished the controller board and its software, the driver is working flawless and fully interrupt-based, the software is also working and now we are almost done, the only thing we are...

  • Road racing gets off the ground

    SamKavanagh
    As I write I am in route to Montreal, QC Canada before continuing on to Sydney, Australia for the opening races of my 2011 Para-cycling schedule.  While in Montreal I will be racing three different times, 2 road races/ 1 time trail, in UCI class...

  • GGHC2011 - Update #3

    e14 Contributor
    Off the rails... Sorry folks, things got a little bit out of hand there. We're back, we've got work underway and it's going to be alright. Watch the video and you'll better understand. 

  • bracing and refinishing the base

    e14 Contributor
    So I finished bracing the legs this weekend and started the slow and painful process of refinishing the base, I added cross braces in the top section and bottom which improved it dramaticaly. The table doesn't wobble like it used to and is much more ...

  • Counting counting counting ...

    e14 Contributor
    Hello Brmlog readers! While Biiter and Stick are working hard on the software, and firmware, our hardware developement is now on debug phase.I found lot of things what need to be improved or totaly changed ... I also  made some calcula...

  • Proto boards arrived and one is already soldered ...

    e14 Contributor
    Another milestone of our project. Lady from a PCB manufacturing company called Sargon that his prototyping boards are ready. He immediately rushed for them and started to work on them ... Unpacking parts from Farnell and local store ... and we a...

  • A first preview

    e14 Contributor
    www.youtube.com/watchHere is a small video of my progress on this project.No sound yet, but it will happen in a few

  • Bay Area Maker Faire May 20 & 21

    maggie
    Come and see me at the Maker Faire!  www.makerfaire.com I will be helping out at the element14 booth and would love to hear about some of your new projects. See you there!