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Pilot your own Starship with Artemis (and make it better with Arduino)

May 8, 2013by Ethan Dicks Leave a comment

If you are a gamer and a Star Trek fan and haven’t heard about Artemis yet, hold on to your socks, ’cause here it is. Artemis is a Spaceship Bridge […]

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Arduino, Hardware

Weeks and weeks of events for Geeks

April 19, 2013by Ethan Dicks Leave a comment

I’m sitting at the Makerspace table at Notacon 10. It’s the middle of several maker-friendly events… 10 Apr – Central Ohio RepRap and MakerBot User Group April meetup 13 Apr […]

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3D Printing, Conventions, Maker Faire, Makerspace, Robots
Arduino on breadboard with 16x1 LCD and RGB LED for debugging, hooked up to home-made pressure sensor.

Coffee Pot Monitor

April 10, 2013by Ethan Dicks Leave a comment

We recently held a “Hackathon” where I work, a day of coding then a day of presentations.  Most of the teams worked on something  directly related to our company’s website […]

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Arduino, Hardware, Raspberry Pi, Software
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Kapton Galore!

March 28, 2013by Ethan Dicks Leave a comment

Today’s maker-purchase: rolls of polyimide (Kapton) tape! This stuff is great for a variety of uses around electronics. The silicone-based adhesive means it’s the “high temp” stuff (acrylic adhesives give […]

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3D Printing, Hardware, Soldering
Arduino with Danger Shield and Breadboard with LCD connected to Raspberry Pi and attached Atrix Lapdock.

Phone Dock to Raspberry Pi Laptop

March 21, 2013by Ethan Dicks Leave a comment

From the first time I saw a Raspberry Pi laptop last October, I knew it would be a great portable platform for demos and classes. I found the lapdock easily […]

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First good print on Thing-O-Matic

March RepRap and MakerBot Meetup at COSI

March 13, 2013by Ethan Dicks 1 Comment

Tonight was the monthly RepRap and Makerbot meetup for March. We’ve been meeting at the Columbus Idea Foundry since 2009, but were invited to hold this month’s meetup at the […]

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3D Printing, Hardware
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Raspberry Jam #2

March 9, 2013by Ethan Dicks 1 Comment

This past Saturday we held our second Raspberry Jam at The Columbus Idea Foundry. We filled the tables with Raspberry Pi enthusiasts and their projects. For many of my Raspberry […]

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Hardware, Makerspace, Raspberry Pi, Software

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