[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Workshop for this month.

[Michael Bunsen]

I'd be really interested in a workshop on power and various battery
technologies.

How to make power your own circuit or dorkboard with a wall wart, rebuild a
laptop battery with NiCads, recharge you ipod with AAs, etc. Discussion
about how to know what power you need and how to get it. How to read
component specs/datasheets (e.g. min/max power input and output of a relay).
At the motor workshop we touched on using a safety diode in circuits with a
big load like solenoids -- other things like that would be awesome: when
does caution end and parinoia begin with electricity? Might be a good
oppurtunity to play with some analog circuits and an oscilliscope (and/or
headphones?)

Michael



On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Jason Plumb <jason at noisybox.net> wrote:

> Open-hack is a great idea and seems like it doesn't preclude people who
> want to dive into dorkboards/benitos/micros from coming for the first time.
>
> For those wondering or cal challenged, the last sunday of this month is the
> 28th.
>
> If we (the collective dorkbotpdx-we) have the space available on each last
> Sunday, there's some really solid potential there!  A few of us have kicked
> around the idea of another circuit bending jobby and I've kicked around the
> idea of a semi-regular patching circle with dorkbot folks....there's also
> the way overdue widely popular and widely poo-poo'd
> roll-your-own-pcb-workshop we've talked about for years now...
>
> As long as we think the times aren't too weird, we could consider using the
> space for the formal presentation/speaker events.  Compared to the gallery
> space we used last time, we'd only be one block away and really won't be
> giving up much space in favor of a better geometry....
>
> What does everybody else think?
>
> -jason
>
>
> Donald Delmar Davis wrote:
>
>> Starting this month we will have the Induction Space on the last sunday of
>> each month and I am working on what is the best approach for the series. If
>> there aren't issues between PARTs and PSU I will be doing a regular
>> induction for the Portland Area Robotics Society meeting at the beginning of
>> next month so I was thinking that this month I would would do an open lab
>> where people could bring in what they were working on and bring in any
>> problems they were having along with sharing ideas for future workshop. This
>> would be free to previous inductees or sliding scale as there will not be
>> any kits involved although I still have motor workshop kits and will bring
>> dorboards as well.
>>
>> Let me know what you collectively think and I will adjust accordingly.
>>
>> Don (aka feurig).
>>
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