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SMD August – Cooking SMD Stars

By tkeddie Posted on July 27, 2014 Posted in Courses, Events, Projects Tagged with smd, smt, workshop

For SMD August we’re breaking out the toaster oven and controller to cook some SMD stars.  Participants are likely to end up with a working product but they’re more likely to end up more knowledgable about the electronics fabrication process. …

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MakeyMakey Bootloader programming over ICSP

By tkeddie Posted on July 27, 2014 Posted in Courses, Things People Made Tagged with smd, smt, workshop

I’ve been asked about how I programmed the bootloader so I’m putting the doco here. For all my AVR work I use a bus pirate v3 with the stk500 firmware. I have a cable I made that adapts the bus …

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SMD July – Build MakeyMakey on July 24th at VHS

By tkeddie Posted on July 18, 2014 Posted in Courses, Events, Kits, Things People Made Tagged with smd, smt, workshop

When Kickstarter came to VHS to talk about launching campaigns they showed MaKeyMaKey as an example. They chose well. This has to be close to the most fun you can find in a circuit. You can find out lots about it …

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Arduino Open Night – July 10th @ 7PM

By tkeddie Posted on July 3, 2014 Posted in Events Tagged with arduino, workshop

  On Thursday 10th we’re having a Arduino Open night at VHS, 7pm ish.  Bring your Arduino(s) down and talk to fellow hackers about the projects you’re making with them.  Struggling with a sketch, bring it down and lets see …

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SMD Soldering Beginner Workshop

By tkeddie Posted on June 30, 2014 Posted in Courses, Events, Projects Tagged with smd, smt, workshop

This is a beginners SMD workshop. You’ll be taken through a technique for solder smd components and then get a chance to build the board shown in the photo.  The price is the cost of the parts including battery. People …

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Schlage BE365 deadbolt hacking

By tkeddie Posted on June 16, 2014 Posted in Hacks, Projects

We have a keypad dead bolt on the front door that has been slated for adaption to rfid for ages.  About 6 months ago we dismantled the lock and tapped the wiring to the solenoid.  The solenoid is tiny, it …

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SMD May – programming jig

By tkeddie Posted on May 25, 2014 Posted in Courses, Events, Hacks, Projects Tagged with smd, smt, workshop

  This week we’re building Logic Pirate open hardware logic analysers at VHS in our SMD workshops.  The ICSP header is 0.05″ pitch so I came up with a top and bottom programming jig to load the initial firmware.  Tickets …

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SMD May PCBs arrive just in time

By tkeddie Posted on May 24, 2014 Posted in Courses, Events, Kits, Projects Tagged with smd, smt, workshop

The circuit boards from dirty pcbs for SMD May are here just in time. The Logic Pirate is a nice cheap compact logic analyser design by Markus Gritsch. More at Dirty PCBs and Dangerous Prototypes.  

Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2014 Workshops

By tkeddie Posted on May 18, 2014 Posted in Events

VHS and Vancouver Mini Maker Faire are closely associated.  The 2014 Maker Faire will be at the PNE like last year, it is only 3 weeks away.  This year, for the first time, a selection of excellent workshops are running. …

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SMD May – Logic Pirate

By tkeddie Posted on April 27, 2014 Posted in Courses, Events, Kits Tagged with smd, smt, workshop

      The dangerous prototypes logic pirate is a new 8 channel logic analyser design from the home of the bus pirate.  It uses the open SUMP protocol supported by the ols java client software (Mac, Windows, Linux). This project is …

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