Samuel Logan

Maker Faire Recap Part 1

What a (last) weekend! The MakerSpace at Digilent traveled all the way down to San Mateo for the Bay Area Maker Faire 2015, our first Maker Faire as a MakerSpace. This is the first post in a series recapping what we saw and did. We had an amazing turnout at our booth, which you’ll hear about in a later post. To start us off, we each wrote a bit about our first impressions of Maker Faire as a whole. I’ll keep my part short as this is going to be a long post already!

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We’re Going to Maker Faire!

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The Digilent MakerSpace will be at Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend! Stop by our booth to see a wall-sized breadboard, LED Snake game, and learn what we do at the Digilent MakerSpace.

Digilent Forums

Digilent Forum Update

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On May 1, our forum was offline for a major version update of our forum software. You probably noticed that the site looks very different than it did before! The upgrade went smoothly and we are excited to share the new features with you.

Applications

Light Painting with WS2812 LEDs

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A friend of mine came into town for Christmas and I wanted to do some sort of photography project with him. A few months ago, there were some pictures floating around the internet from Stephen Orlando, who took LEDs and attached them to a kayak paddle and kayaked around a lake, and through rapids. I wanted to do something similar. The first night wasn’t very organized. We went into the woods with just the LED strip, the chipKIT board (the uC32), and a battery.

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Check Out This chipKIT Shield Separator!

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Have you ever had trouble separating your shields and boards? So did we, but not anymore! Use this shield separator tool to pry between your chipKIT or Arduino board and a shield to easily separate the two and avoid bending the pins on your shield. It also has a hole so you can keep it on your key ring and have it wherever you go. I designed the tool in Autodesk Inventor and printed it with our Makerbot Replicator, and it turned out great!

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Printoo: 2D Printed Circuits

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Right now everyone is talking about 3D printing, but at least one group thinks 2D printing isn’t dead yet. Last month, Ynvisible launched their KickStarter campaign to produce Printoo, a set of thin, flexible Arduino-compatible boards and modules.