For Montreal’s first Mini Maker Faire, we hosted the ever popular ‘Learn To Solder For 1$’ tent. Nothing like what we expected. We have seen photos from other ‘First’ Mini Maker Faires. Based on that, we were expecting to maybe teach a few dozen people how to solder, and enjoy a relaxing day. The turnout was awesome, nothing… Read More »
Through-Hole soldering is fast, fun and easy. The parts you populate your PCB’s with are the very same ones you can pull from your breadboard once your project is finished, and you are ready to make a permanent version. What if the components end up taking up too much space for the size of your product? What if… Read More »
After the incredible success of the Solder : Time, we compiled the majority of what was on people’s wish lists for the next version of our Solder : Time Watch. After a great deal of brainstorming, component sourcing, code-wrangling, and laser cut prototyping, we unveiled the Solder : Time II at MakerFaire Bay Area 2012. Feature List: •… Read More »
While building prototypes the need to cut an existing PCBs or generic prototyping PCBs to fit your project will come up once in a while. What I normally do is score the PCB with a box cutting knife or hack saw the board into the shape I need. Both of these techniques end up making a bunch of… Read More »
Oftentimes we get approached to help with a project, and sometimes we are given the mandate to ‘Make Something Awesome’. Here is one of those times. For CBC’s game show “Canada’s Smartest Person” we were contracted to create an on-set prop that is actually a functioning music guessing device. The purpose of this, is to test ones musical… Read More »
I was working on an Arduino style project the other day and needed just a couple of more pins. I really didn’t want to add any extra circuitry to the project so I looked at the Atmega328 and wondered how I could get more pins out of it. Then it dawned on me, simply remove the crystal and… Read More »
d’Art Souterrain (French for Underground Art) does a new take on the public space playable piano keyboard. This installation is located in one of the under ground pedestrian tunnel of Place Ville Marie in Montreal. Their objective was to take a create a space where people could interact in what is otherwise an area only used by people to… Read More »
What I did here was wire up a piranah tri-color LED, and for a resistance, I used a piece of anti-static chip foam. (The type that we put chips on when we are making kits) Shot these photos with a really close up macro lens, to capture the 3 distinct parts of the LED that give off different… Read More »
Down in New Zealand, Jim of Jim’s Page has crafted one of the most ‘home made’ – DIY looking flight sims I’ve ever seen. Interfacing with an Arduino for a variety of IO, and he’s got his own software that communicates it all. Check out his Arduino link, he shows how to use the Arduino MEGA in a… Read More »
Debuted at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, we created this watch to let your ‘inner geek’ shine. Soldering isn’t one of your talents? Well, we have these available assembled and ready to wear as well. This started out as a project, where we just simply wanted to make a watch. What we ended up with is our first… Read More »