New Profile Posted to SchoolFactory
If you are just getting involved, been thinking about visiting or simply are curious, this write-up over at The Space Federation website might be worth reading over to get an idea of what the association is between Hive 4A and Make Lehigh Valley along with some other details about us as a group, what some of our next steps are and some of what we envision for the future.
We are Make Lehigh Valley, a community of hackers, makers and artists who meet and use the Hive 4A Hackerspace facility. The space is provided by Hive 4A which also provide a co-working space across the hall in an old Mac Truck factory in a facility they call Bridgeworks. Both are owned and operated by the Allentown Economic Development Corporation. They are interested in promoting creativity especially around manufacturing in Allentown and generally in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. The same facility has been operating as a manufacturing business incubator for many years. Their are great opportunities for a maker to start ...
A Simple Arduino Robot
At the Science Festival one of the things we talked about in the Arduino area was how easy it is to make a robot out of an RC car. This guy's arduino robot is pretty basic, but has lots of room to expand.
Here is a short video and associated intractable on doing exactly that.
Instructable: Make your RC car drive itself with this simple brain swap
Science Festival – Great Success!
Saturday at the Science Festival of the Lehigh Valley, we taught over 40 kids to solder, saw kids eyes light up with the potential of 3D printing, showed off the simple power of Arduinos and had a great time. We had a real solid group of folks sharing in the responsibility of the booth and I think it showed in the participation of attendees.
We also passed out every piece of literature about Make Lehigh Valley we had and started writing out the website on extra name tags. If you are looking for more information, feel free to look around here.
Thank you to everyone who came by and thank you for everyone who volunteered to make this happen.
Thank you also to AEDC and Hive 4A for being critical partners in making this opportunity available to us.
See more pictures on Facebook.
We ran out of soldering handouts at the festival. If you would like one they are available to download.
Science Festival Radio Announcement
We recorded a little radio spot to highlight our involvement in the Science Festival of the Lehigh Valley. It will air on Lehigh Valley Tech Radio.
We will have the following fun activities to share with the Lehigh Valley:
- 3D scanning using a Microsoft Kinect
- 3D printing
- basic soldering classes
- interactive arduino microcontroller projects
- more
Science Festival of the Lehigh Valley
Make Lehigh Valley is looking forward to being a part of the Science Festival of the Lehigh Valley. We're also looking for members to be involved at the booth. We have a few that will be around for the day, but there is room for more.
The event is happening Saturday, April 14th 2012 and will include a ton of other local organisation participating. It should be a good time for people of all ages.
We’ve talked about a resistor identification…
We've talked about a resistor identification phone app in the past, someone beat us to it.
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/06/iphone-camera-identifies-resistor-values/
Learn to Code or Teach some Code
A few of us around the MakeLV community are working through CodeYear's lessons to help folks learn to code. So far it has been pretty basic. If you'd like to join us, it wouldn't take much to catch up. This is a good skill to understand a bit more about the way computers and microcontrollers think. This coures is teaching javascript which is most commonly used for improving website interfaces, but the direction so far is teaching many basic skills which will make learning many other languages easier to pick up. Some of these concepts include variable scope, functions, conditional statements and code comments.
Each lesson comes with several exercises that you work through right on the website. As you complete exercises and lessons you earn badges like the one to the left. I've been through two weeks of stuff and have earned ten badges. 
There is also an opportunity to learn some code. So far all the lessons have been in Javascript, but a quick look at the invitation to teach suggests that they are accepting many other languages. If you would like to write a few lessons with some exercises to share your expertise with others, this may be the place to look. Perhaps someone could share some lessons specifically for Atmega microcontrollers or even Arduino.
Special Event – Explore Your Gadgets: Take apart stuff
This is a great activity to bring kids of all ages.
Bring something broken or find something in our pile. We'll be taking things apart, exploring how they work and generally exposing the magic behind the curtain of that "Warranty Void if Removed" sticker.
Exact times have yet to be determined. The Hive4a Hackerspace will be open for most of the day so you're really welcome any time. We'll just be trying to make sure resources are available at some exact times.
Let us know you are coming on the Facebook Event page.
Guitar Effects Workshop
There has been some discussions at the hackerspace of doing a guitar effects pedal workshops.
If you are interested in that sort of thing, you may like the article from Hack-A-Day today on building a tremolo pedal which was originally posted on Hack A Week.
If you'd like to see us do some of this with experts around, keep your ear turned in our direction. We're also discussing some classes like soldering to help build skills required in building these sorts of pedals. Also, let us know if you think this would be an interesting workshop.
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