Learn Essential Maker Skills with Our New Interactive Workshops
Our new workshops on Maker Share will help creators get the maker skills they need to start building the stuff they want.
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Electronics: Fun & Fundamentals — The Eclectic Electret Microphone
Electret mics are now tiny, high-quality, and available for less than $1 each.
Touch Sensor Workshop with Mark Frauenfelder at Engadget Expand
If you make it to Engadget Expand in New York this weekend, check out Mark Frauenfelder’s workshop Sunday, Nov. 10, from 10-11am. He’ll be making a simple circuit using a 555 timer chip, an LED, and some wire and then creating touch sensor pads by painting them on a piece of paper with conductive ink. Once the paint dries, you hook it all together and watch the LED light up when you complete the circuit by touching the sensor. You will learn how to build the basic electronic circuit as well as tips and tricks for designing your own painted tough sensor.
Mintduino Game Pack – Learning Arduino from the Ground Up
Want to learn about Arduino from the ground up? The Mintduino Game Pack teaches you all about basic electronics, breadboarding and programming piece by piece. When you finish, you’ll have a fun, two player game to play with a friend and a firm grasp in the world of microcontrollers.
Breadboard Workshop PDFs
This year at World Maker Faire, we put together a Breadboarding Workshop to act as a companion to our popular Learn to Solder activity. For a test run, it was a great success. We taught over 80 people how to use a breadboard and to build a fun blinky light circuit on the board. Here are the PDFs from the workshop.
New in the Maker Shed: Perma-Proto Boards
Have you ever had one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moments? I had one the first time I saw Adafruit’s Perma-Proto Breadboards, now available in the Maker Shed.
How-To: Use Staples as Breadboard Jumpers
Recently, we’ve been brainstorming ideas for a breadboarding workshop to put on at Maker Faire and other events. Hoping to save participants the tedium of cutting and stripping their own jumper wires (and the cost of providing readymade jumpers) we hit on the idea of using staples. I first read about this hack on Instructables, awhile back, and was excited to find a chance to put it to use. Just one problem: it doesn’t work.
