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Visit the Low Voltage Labs booth at the Portland Mini Maker Faire 2012

Posted by Eric in News on Sep 6th, 2012 | no responses

OMSI is organizing Portland Oregon’s first Mini Maker Faire on September 15-16, 2012. The faire will be located in OMSI’s north parking lot.

Low Voltage Labs will have a booth at the Portland Mini Maker Faire. I will also be speaking Sunday on how to create a printed circuit board using open source software KiCAD. You can see a preview of the same talk I did at the Seattle Mini Maker Faire.

Find out more at OMSIs website:
http://www.omsi.edu/maker-faire-pdx

Date: September 15-16, 2012
Time: 10am-6pm
Cost: $12 adults, $8 youth (3-13) and seniors (63+)
Located at: OMSIâ€™s north parking lot

Portland Mini Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly showcase of creativity and cool technology, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s inspiring, stimulating, and fun for all ages.

Maker Faire is a weekend filled with an incredible variety of exhibits, talks, demonstrations, and performances bridging arts, crafts, science and engineeringâ€”many of them hands-on and all of them engaging. Maker Faire is a reflection of our community at its very best.

Bring your whole family and enjoy a full day at the inaugural Portland Mini Maker Faire!

Low Voltage Labs now has a forum

Posted by Eric in News on Aug 10th, 2012 | no responses

Low Voltage Labs now has a forum at http://forum.lowvoltagelabs.com/

You can create an account on the forum or just sign in using your Google, OpenID, Twitter, or Facebook account.

Bullduino Unboxing

Posted by Eric in News on Jun 23rd, 2012 | no responses

I recently applied for the 2012 Red Bull Creation contest at http://www.redbullusa.com/creation

Yesterday I received my official Bullduino board so I thought I would share a few photos. The box didn’t include any instructions, so I guess if you can’t figure it out you don’t deserve to be in the contest. 🙂

Custom cardboard box:

Two bulls on a circuit board, first time I’ve seen that:

Black solder mask:

Atmel ATMEGA328:

See more photos here:
https://plus.google.com/photos/115017817208112204973/albums/5757236654665771553
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lowvoltagelabs/sets/72157630244743638/

Photos from the Seattle Mini Maker Faire 2012

Posted by Eric in News on Jun 5th, 2012 | no responses

I’ve posted some photos from the Seattle Mini Maker Faire.

You can see them on Flickr or Google Plus.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lowvoltagelabs/sets/72157630049133116/
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/photos/115017817208112204973/albums/5750749757409609921

Seattle Mini Maker Faire presentation

Posted by Eric in News on Jun 4th, 2012 | 2 responses

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation at the 2012 Seattle Mini Maker Faire on Sunday.
The presentation was an overview of creating a printed circuit board using the KiCAD suite of electronic design automation tools.