by stephen | Oct 8, 2018 | Blog, Event, Project, Upcoming
Image credit: Luca Cipressi We’re building a Theremin! This amazing electronics instrument from the late 1800s has featured in songs and movies ever since its invention. To make music or sound, you don’t actually need to touch this instrument at all. (But...
by stephen | Sep 17, 2018 | Event, Past
Details We'll use the time to decide on: - What the first project will be - Materials we need to buy - Whether we need to divide into groups to utilise everyone's skill sets properly - Rough plan of action What to bring: There's computers there we can use, but you can...
by stephen | Sep 14, 2018 | Event, Past
Let’s make an even better one! Experience the thrill of developing a fully working electronics and software system in half a day. A few Saturdays ago when we cobbled together a High Speed Photography (HSP) rig in 4 hours, from a standing start, and captured some...
by David Stonier-Gibson | Sep 11, 2018 | Event, Past
October meeting - My Health Record By the end of 2018, all Australians will have a My Health Record created for them, unless they choose not to have one. The My Health Record is an online repository of your key health information which is controlled by you and can be...
by stephen | Aug 14, 2018 | Event, Past
IR Blaster & Learning Remote - Project Day We'll be using any of Raspberry pi, Arduino or ESP8266 to drive some infra-red LEDs and infra-red detectors to build a infra-red transmitter and receiver. This will allow you to learn remote control commands and reuse...
by David Stonier-Gibson | Aug 2, 2018 | Event, Past
The magic of electronic circuit simulation. Long gone are the days when an electronics engineer like me had to build a physical prototype of a circuit in order to test and debug it. Computer simulation of circuits is much quicker, and allows the exploration of more...
