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 »
We just got them in store, and they are the the most slick proto-boards we have ever seen. I can’t decide to build a project on one, or hang it on the wall as art. We have them as the ‘Superpack’ (3 of each size) as well as single size 3 packs. Perma-Proto Half-sized Breadboard PCB – 3… 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 »
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 »
The Shield Dock™ [SPL-018001] The Shield Dock is a super versatile prototyping shield. The Sheild Dock can be used in many different ways. Think of it as the multi-tool for your Arduino projects. It can be used with a traditionally shaped Arduino, as a prototyping shield. As a pin break-out for your other shields to a breadboard, or… Read More »
Femtoduino: an ultrasmall 20.7×15.2 mm libre Arduino compatible board | Varesano.net. By using the QFN32 version of the ATMEGA 328p, 0.05″ connectors, 0402 components and removing everything not strictly necessary, I’ve been able to design and hand build an Arduino compatible board which is very small (20.7×15.2 mm) and ultra light (2g) but has exactly the same computing… Read More »
Yes! Wouldn’t it be great to go from this: To this? Now you can with Eagle 3D (from after the jump…) Some time ago there was a question in one of the Eagle-Newsgroups if it is possible to translate the 2D-layout into a 3-dimensional view. It was not possible. So I started the development of Eagle3D. After a… Read More »