Low Voltage Labs now has an events page

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

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

Photos from the Portland Mini Maker Faire 2012

Thanks to everyone who visited the Low Voltage Labs booth at the Portland Mini Maker Faire.

You can see more photos from the Portland Mini Maker Faire on Flickr or Google Plus.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lowvoltagelabs/sets/72157631537730129/
https://plus.google.com/photos/115017817208112204973/albums/5788191122002116257

Portland Mini Maker Faire starts tomorrow

The Low Voltage Labs booth is all setup for the Portland Mini Maker Faire starting tomorrow.
Hope to see you there.

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

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: OMSI’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 engineering—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!