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Young Makers

The FamiLAB Young Makers program is having its first meeting on Thursday, October 13th from 7pm to 9pm at FamiLAB. We will have an overview of the Young Makers program… Read more »

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The Maker Movement

  The Maker Movement continues to gain momentum.  I’ve added a page to the RaisingGeeks site that contains my thoughts on the movement, why it is gaining momentum, and the… Read more »

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Audio-Reactive Stage Lighting – RGB LED Satellite Brackets

The Audio-Reactive Stage Lighting project (original blog post) uses 16 MaceTech RGB LED satellite modules. One of my goals for this system is to have flexibility in mounting the LEDs…. Read more »

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Audio-Reactive Stage Lighting – Prototype

Hard to name, but easy to understand once you see it: (Warning, the videos are LOUD!)   This setup consists of 16 Macetech LED Satellites, 2 Macetech Octobars, a Macetech… Read more »

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Inventing Merit Badge: Disney Ride and Show Engineering

The Boy Scouts of Troop 6 in Orlando, FL are working on the Inventing Merit Badge. This merit badge was originally offered in the early 1900s – and at that… Read more »

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POVARD Kit Build & Review

When we attended Maker Faire, I bought Adam a POVARD kit (Persistence Of Vision ARDuino) at the same time I bought the Drum Kit kit for my youngest son and the Solder:Time watch (for… Read more »

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 – element14 – Jeri, Ben & Mitch

I had not paid much attention to element14, an electronics supplier, before they sponsored the Great Global Hackerspace Challenge. My participation in that challenge as part of FAMiLab, Orlando’s Hackerspace… Read more »

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Electronics Merit Badge: Class Night #3

We’ve been taking some of the Boy Scouts in Troop 6 through the Electronics Merit Badge. This night, we built the Electronics Merit Badge kit from www.electronicsmb.com, and did requirements… Read more »

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TV Tennis kit from Radio Shack – built by an eight year-old

While on over the July 4th holiday, I was in Radio Shack with a friend (yeah, that’s what I do on vacation…) and I saw that they’d added the Velleman… Read more »

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Electronics Merit Badge: Kit from electronicsmb.com – Part 2

As mentioned in a previous blog post, I’m teaching the Electronics Merit Badge for Troop 6. Since my nephew is staying with us for the summer, I gave him the… Read more »

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