2013/01/22

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Webcast: How to Get a Raspberry Pi Up and Running
Community for a Healthy Makerspace
Visiting a Motor Factory in Shenzhen
Your Comments
Magic Eye Audio Spectrum Display
Netduino 2 – Faster & Better for the Same Price.
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Webcast: How to Get a Raspberry Pi Up and Running

This Wednesday, Shawn Wallace and I will be hosting an O’Reilly webcast about the basics of how to get a Raspberry Pi up and running. It’s a free webcast, but you do have to register to attend. If you can’t make it to the webcast, check out our book, Getting [...]

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Community for a Healthy Makerspace

Occasionally, I'll visit a frustrated makerspace. "We have a space. We have tools. Where are the members?" They describe how they've put energy into the physical aspects of the space and say nothing about the community building aspects.

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Visiting a Motor Factory in Shenzhen

MAKE friend Akiba of Freaklabs visited a DC motor factory with some friends. Lotus is a medium sized motor manufacturer and the facility we visited manufactures DC motors. They have a separate facility to manufacture stepper motors as well, but we were not able to go to that factory. Once [...]

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Your Comments

Welcome to the fifty-ninth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, Google+ Community, and Twitter.

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Magic Eye Audio Spectrum Display

Sylvain, AKA MicroSyl, wanted to build an audio spectrum display using old “magic eye” vacuum tubes: After doing some project with vintage tube I got the idea of doing an audio spectrum display with “magic eyes tube” and driving those with an AVR MCU with Fast Fourier Transform. The enclosure [...]

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Netduino 2 – Faster & Better for the Same Price.

Secret Labs has been busy. They updated their flagship Netduino Plus (now the Netduino Plus 2) back in November and they just updated to the Netduino to the Netduino 2! The Netduino 2 features the same Arduino shield pin compatibility, footprint, and .NET Micro Framework programability as the original but adds more speed, code space, and features.