Low Voltage Labs

2013 Bay Area Maker Faire starts today

Posted by Eric in News on May 18th, 2013 | no responses

The 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire starts today. The Low Voltage Labs and Samurai Circuits booth is located in south central part of the Expo building, booth #520. Hope to see you there.

http://makerfaire.com/makers/raspberry-pi-and-arduino-project-demonstrations/

Visit Low Voltage Labs at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2013

Posted by Eric in Maker Faire, News on May 15th, 2013 | no responses

The Bay Area Maker Faire is only a few days away. Visit Low Voltage Labs and Samurai Circuits we will have a booth located in south central part of the Expo building, booth #520.

http://makerfaire.com/makers/raspberry-pi-and-arduino-project-demonstrations/

LinuxFest Northwest 2013 presentation

Posted by Eric in News on Apr 29th, 2013 | no responses

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation at LinuxFest Northwest 2013 on Sunday. The presentation was an overview of how to connect your Raspberry Pi to the outside world using the GPIO.
Raspberry Pi GPIO for the software geek

You can download a PDF of the slides I used for the presentation from the LinuxFest Northwest site:
Raspberry Pi GPIO for the software geek PDF slides

Already looking forward to LinuxFest Northwest 2014!

Low Voltage Labs now has an events page

Posted by Eric in News on Apr 4th, 2013 | no responses

Keep up to date on our future happens with the events page. The page lists upcoming events that Low Voltage Labs will be attending as well as events we’ve attended in the past.

Coming soon:

April 27-28, 2013: LinuxFest NW 2013, I will be presenting Hardware interfacing with the Raspberry Pi GPIO for the software geek
June 15, 2013: Our application for the Eugene Mini Maker Faire 2013 has been accepted.

Pumpkin PCB files in KiCAD format

Posted by Eric in Open Source Hardware, Projects on Sep 25th, 2012 | 6 responses

This year at the Seattle and Portland Mini Maker Faires I did a presentation on getting started with designing your own PCB using KiCAD. In this presentation as an example I created a pumpkin shaped PCB with a candle like flickering LED.

Here are the KiCAD schematic and PCB layout files to use as the starting point for your own project:
KiCAD schematic and PCB files (zip file)

These files are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

You can see photos of the actual PCB on Flickr:
Great Pumpkin PCB photos

The Pumpkin PCB is now also available as a kit:
Low Voltage Labs Pumpkin PCB kit