Archives: electronics
Workshops at BetaLab
In the next weeks we’ll be giving two workshops at BetaLab, a co-working space organized by betahaus| within the Chiado-After-Work program.
Here’s all the information and workshops’ schedule (in Portuguese):
Workshop DIY Kinetic SolarBots – Construa o seu próprio robot cinético solar.
Neste workshop os participantes vão construir um pequeno robot cinético através da montagem de um circuito [...]
Mini-workshop “Motores de Passo”
(scroll down for English)
Vamos pegar aleatóriamente num motor de passo e tentar descobrir que tipo de motor é, desenhar um diagrama simples do mesmo.
Depois vamos pegar no ferro de soldar (não há que ter meeeeeedo :)) e montar um circuito que permite controlar esse motor a partir de um Arduino ou qualquer outra placa baseada [...]
First Soft Circuits Open Lab
This Sunday we’re holding our first Soft Circuits Open Lab at the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon (FBAUL – Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa). There is no predefined structure for the event. We will meet for the course of one day with the purposes of sharing knowledge, experimenting freely, advancing on-going projects, and [...]
Circuit Bending
Hello “intrenets” people(s)
This post today reflects a little about what circuit bending and diy are.
I have many friends and colleagues asking me “-So what is circuit bending?”, well here goes the awser and a bit of the history behind circuit bending.
Seems that a guy called Reed Ghazala, was making experiments with some synthesizers, trying to [...]
PAPERduino’s design
This is a fully functional version of the Arduino. We eliminated the PCB and use paper and cardboard as support and the result is.. the PAPERduino :D
This is the the first version of the layout design, next we will try more designs, and other materials. You just need to print the top and the bottom [...]