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When at The Next HOPE I bought The Brian Machine electronic kit for $20.  It’s a product I have heard lots about and really wanted one.  I figured I would spend the money and actually make it myself rather than buying a pre-made one.

The kit went together fairly easily once I figured out how to do it with a little help from other Makers Local 256 members.  It took me a couple of hours to complete the project.  I had a ton of fun making it and think I’m going to make more kits.

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2 Canon Powershot A480 cameras
2 Canon Powershot A480 cameras

I have recently been working on a 3D stereoscopic Camera rig, Here are some details!

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Thanks to someone donating a workbench, several shop members cleaning an area for it, and two shop members getting the missing bolts, we now have a new workbench for our electronics projects! Horray!

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Six of us went to HOPE this year. What a time we had. Very little sleep, lots of socializing, and even some hacking. Nathan made me bring our Wifi Geiger Counter to work on and show off. This turned into more of a hacking project than a fixing project. This years conference badge features an MSP430 and a Nordic nRF24L01+ radio. They could communicate with each other and a tracking network. After realizing the badges could be aware of other badges I came up with a plan! Now the Geiger Counter detects other HOPE badges!