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View ArticleCircuit Board Design with KiCAD
Kicad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA). This allows you to design schematics of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards (PCB). This workshop will cover...
View ArticleIntroducing Circuit Church.
We are proud to announce the First Circuit Church is happening this Sunday. Circuit Church is both a learning exercise and a skills challenge. A night of quick turn electronics with a curated Bill...
View ArticleFour Years on Broadway
Four years ago, we opened our doors, put out the sandwich board and you came in to Make Something Awesome. Let’s put down the tools and party. This Saturday, October 12, 8 PM
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Scenes from Circuit Church. Simply the fastest electronics design to fabrication exercise on the planet. From a list of parts to programming in under 6 hours. You get your Bill of Materials at 6pm...
View ArticleIntro to Electronics is back!
If you have been checking the blog and our calendar for the past few months, wondering when the Intro to Electronics workshop will be offered again, now is your chance to sign up! The workshop will be...
View ArticleNew Workshop: Intro to Inkscape!
The lasers are incredibly powerful tools, able to do anything from blast out furniture to etch text on custom business cards. In this workshop, get oriented to making files for the laser using...
View ArticleJust In: Audio Equipment Needing Love!
Hey audiophiles! Christmas just came in the form of audio equipment. We have: an Ion iMX02 mixer. The crossfade is a little fuzzy, but the panel cover can be unscrewed, and the crossfade can easily be...
View ArticleGiant Foam MRI at Metrix.
If you have been to Metrix in the last few months, you have probably noticed the tiny bits of pink foam floating around and clinging to everything. They happened to be the byproduct of the largest...
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At last night’s 3D Thursday, Johann brought a Kossel Clear to assemble. No instructions needed.
View ArticleSitting is the new smoking.
Morgan Redfield, long time friend of the shop and one of the original pretengineers is currently in the midst of an Indiegogo to curb sitting. This tiny hexagon (we love hexagons) keeps track of your...
View ArticleRobot Reproduction requires Humans
If you've been in the shop lately, you've probably noticed the robots are multiplying. This is only possible with awesome humans going through the process.One group build is by 3D Central, SCCCs own...
View ArticleIntro to Inkscape
Have you always been amazed at the precision of projects coming out of the laser? Interested in making custom boxes, brackets, or paper art projects? Our lasers can cut wood, paper, acrylic, leather,...
View ArticleShock Me! Thrill me! Dot Matrix Me!
The resolution on this is actually higher than the camera could capture. If you've been in the shop in the last few months, you may have noticed little lasered Tesla photos floating around. We got a...
View ArticleThe √144th Man
Acrylic: $18.50Electroluminescent wire: $30Laser time: $15Repping your home team and basic mathematics at the same time: priceless.
View ArticleHand-Printed Valentines, Now with Extra Lasers
I've been chatting with people for months about how easy it would be to use the lasercutters to make printmaking plates. Last week, I figured I'd put my Europop references where my mouth is. From a...
View ArticleSunday night in the Advanced Circuits Lab
What can you build with our Advanced Circuits Lab? How about simple USB programmable electronics? Morgan Redfield created this 3.3V basic trinket board on Upverter. It's based off of the Adafruit...
View ArticleBluetooth Low Energy(BLE) Workshop: On Indiegogo now!
Crowdfunding is something we generally stay behind-the-scenes with, but we think we've found something that really requires us to come out from behind the curtain.Public intensive workshops are...
View ArticleWe're the BLE of the Ball!
Oh man. Support for our Indiegogo campaign to run intensive Bluetooth Low Energy workshops has been completely overwhelming. During the campaign itself, we blew past our goal, thanks in part to being...
View ArticleIntro to Arduino is back!
If you've been waiting and wondering when we're going to hold another Intro to Arduino workshop again, today is your lucky day! We are holding it again on Tuesday, April 1 at 7:00 pm, and there are...
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