I’m writing this post while one of the test JeeNode Micro’s here at JeeLabs is nearing its eighth month of operation on a single coin cell. RESOURCES FOR PHYSICS STUDENTS & TEACHERS 'DEADLY' EEI IDEAS Ideas for Year 11 and 12 Physics Extended Experimental Investigations. PowerSDR ke9ns v2.8.0 software download (for Flex-1500, Flex-3000, and Flex-5000 models) Click on images (below) to enlarge v2.8.0 contains all the features from. MAKERbuino Build Guide. Introduction. General Description. MAKERbuino is a DIY gaming platform suited for makers. It’s based on Arduino and compatible with Gamebuino. MAKERbuino project encourages and helps people learn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in a fun and interesting way. MAKERbuino allows you to develop your hardware and software skills. Make video games, explore new hardware solutions, learn from numerous tutorials and share your work with the community. MAKERbuino - a DIY game console - Video. This is the Official MAKERbuino Kit Build Guide. For more information visit www. MAKERbuino project on. Facebook. Twitter. Google+Instagram. You. Tube. Age Group. Our estimation is that an 1. MAKERbuino with a tiny bit of help from an adult and thus, estimated age group is 1. Estimated build time: 2 hours 3. Build time varies and depends on the skills of the person and if the person has ever soldered before. MAKERbuino was made with purpose of bringing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to people in a fun and interesting way. Despite that, it is not the best entry level kit and if you never soldered before you should think about doing some preparatory practice or soldering a simpler kit. Required Skills. MAKERbuino comes as a DIY kit. It requires basic soldering and assembly skills to put together. This kit was designed to be assembled as easy as possible, however, if you never soldered before, it might be a good idea to get some practice first. Nevertheless, with enough patience and care, a total newbie can assemble this kit by precisely following these build instructions. Skills That Will Ease the Process of Assembling the MAKERbuino: Basic soldering experience (some preparatory experience)Ability to recognize the basic electronic components. What You’ll Learn With the MAKERbuino. MAKERbuino’s main goal to educate and motivate you to learn something new or brush the skills you already have. In the process of making the MAKERbuino and developing your own MAKERbuino compatible software and hardware you’ll learn: How to solder. What are the basic electronic components and what is their *function. How can electronic components be connected and why. What are microcontrollers and some basics of digital electronics. How to program a microcontroller in C/C++What are 3. D printers and how to modify and design your own unique 3. D printed casing. How to extend beyond MAKERbuino’s capabilities by adding various expansion modules. What’s In the Box? Box art design might vary depending on when you bought your kit - the old box is displayed in this picture, kits bought in 2. You managed to get your very own basic MAKERbuino kit! Well done and thanks for supporting the project and the “STEM through fun” initiative. First of all, follow the list of included components and the text below and make sure that you have all the required components laid out on your table and ready for soldering. For more advanced makers, here is the MAKERbuino’s schematic you can download. Take a peek before building the thing. If you don’t know how to read these diagrams, you don’t have to worry, you’ll learn. Click here to view the schematics: MAKERbuino- schematic. Also, this diagram of the main parts of the MAKERbuino console is super useful: List of Included Components. Label. Component Name. Minimal Quantity. NO LABELMAKERbuino PCB1. NO LABELlaser cut acrylic casing (consists of 3 pieces)1. NO LABELM3 nylon screws. NO LABELM3 nylon nuts. NO LABELM3 6mm nylon hex distancer. NO LABELM2 nylon (or metal) screws. NO LABELM2 nylon (or metal) nuts. NO LABEL1. 28. MB Micro SD card + SD adapter. NO LABELSD socket. NO LABEL8ohm 0. 5. W speaker - 2. 8mm diameter. NO LABELLi- Po battery (6. Ah, single cell - 3. V) with male JST connector. NO LABELfemale JST battery connector. NO LABELUSB to RS2. U1. ATmega. 32. 8P- PU microcontroller. NO LABEL2. 8 pin IC socket (for the ATmega. P)1. LCDNokia 5. 11. LCD breakout board. NO LABELfemale header socket (for connecting the screen)1. NO LABELTP4. 05. 6 Li- Po battery charger board. IC2. 3. 3. V voltage regulator (MCP1. E in TO- 9. 2 package)1. T1. 2n. 22. 22 general purpose NPN transistor. Q1. 16. MHz crystal. D1. 1N4. 14. 8 diode. SWITCH1, SWITCH2. C1, C6. 10. 0n. F ceramic capacitor. C2, C3. 22p. F ceramic capacitor. C4, C5, C7. 10. 0u. F, 6. 3. V radial electrolytic capacitor. BTN1. 2x. 12x. 7. JP1standard double row 3x. SPI port. 1JP2standard single row 6 pin angle headers (female) - for Serial port. JP3, JP4. KF2. 51. P angle connector (male + female) - for i. BREAKOUTstandard double row 5x. TM1, TM2. 1Kohm wheel trim potentiometer. R1. 2Kohm resistor. R2, R3. 10. Kohm resistor. R4, R5. 4. 7kohm resistor. R6. 10. 0ohm resistor. X1. 3. 5mm headphone connector socket. NO LABELSome thin insulated copper wire (standard and solid core wire)1. We tend to place some extra spare components in your MAKERbuino kit. Quantity listed in the above table is the absolute minimum of components required for your MAKERbuino to work, you’ll probably get some extra. If you’re not sure what every of these components looks like, don’t worry. In the following section we’ll analyze the components and their purpose. MAKERbuino PCBPCB stands for printed circuit board. Basically, this is a board with some copper traces and some other components like protective paint and insulating material. Copper layers of the board form traces that connect various MAKERbuino’s electronic components (e. MAKERbuino’s PCB color might vary depending on when you bought your kit. Latest PCBs are colored red. We plan to offer various PCB colors as an extra option in the shop soon. Laser Cut Acrylic Casing. MAKERbuino’s circuitry is protected by a casing made out of laser cut plastic (they’re made on a CNC laser cutting machine). The casing consists of 3 pieces (see the picture). One piece is used to protect the front (top) side of your MAKERbuino device and the other two pieces protect MAKERbuino’s back. Everything is stacked one on another using nuts, bolts and plastic spacers. This style of casings is called “the sandwich design”. We’ll explain how to assemble the casing at the end of this build guide. Nuts, Bolts and Spacers. These basic mechanical components are needed at the end of MAKERbuino assembly process for fixating the circuit board to the casing. M3 or M2 in the name of the screws indicates that the screw’s shaft’s diameter is 3 mm or 2 mm. Depeding on the verion, you might get metal screws instead of plastic ones (latest versions of the kit come with plastic screws made out of nylon). SD card. The included SD card is used for storing games, programs and other useful data on it (game graphics, music etc.). Thanks to this card, you can load multiple on your MAKERbuino. It comes preloaded with lots of fun games downloaded from the games gallery on www. You might be wondering, why is the SD card’s capacity mere 1. MB? This is an 8- bit gameboy- like gaming device and programs and games for it are approximately 3. B. 1. 28 MB of space will be more than enough for storing plenty of games, programs and useful info. SD cards (1. GB or 5. MB)SD Socket. The SD socket is the only surface mount component in the whole device. Don’t let the look of it discourage you, SD socket’s leads are so big that anyone can solder it with a tiny bit of patience. The socket is soldered to the back side of the PCB and you insert your precious SD card inside. Speaker. This neat little speaker fits at the back side of the device. It has a special place in the back of the casing. It plays a crucial role in producing all the beeps, boops and crazy chiptunes you’ll compose in your very own games. Standard diameter of the MAKERbuino speaker is 3. Li- Po Battery & JST Connector. The rechargeable battery serves as MAKERbuino’s main power supply. Ah is more than enough for several hours of intense gaming and powering all sorts of power- hungry expansion modules (like GPS receivers, motors, wifi modules, etc.). In case you didn’t know, “Li- Po” in the name of the battery indicates its structure and what materials it uses to store electrical energy (Li- Po stands for Lithium Polymer). It comes with the male JST power connector that is then connected to the female JST connector soldered directly to the board. RS2. 32 Serial UART adapter. USB to RS2. 32 serial UART adapter. This board is connected to MAKERbuino’s serial port (top left black female angle connector). The New Apple Watch Is Basically Also a Smartphone. It might look the same, but the latest smartwatch from Apple sounds like it will be a lot more powerful. Today, at an event held in the brand new Steve Jobs Theater on the soon- to- open Apple Campus, Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer at Apple, showed off the Apple Watch Series 3, which features a new processor that should make it faster and more power- efficient, as well as, more crucially, cellular connectivity. The latter is considered a major boon, as with cellular support the new Apple Watch will not need a phone in order to pull off crucial smartwatch tasks like texts, voice calls, and weather forecasts. The new connectivity should also allow the Series 3 to do things like allow wearers to chuck the phone and navigate via Apple Maps, listen to music on one’s wireless headphones, or even order takeout. Most smartwatches with cellular support are huge thanks to the need to pack in antennas and other necessary components, but the Series 3 will be the same size as the Series 2. That’s accomplished by doing cool things like making the whole display the antenna. LTE has previously been excluded from Apple wearables to conserve battery. The theory goes that the little antenna constantly pinging a cell tower would greatly drain a device that already has only 2. Besides cellular support, the Series 3 has a new processor with a claimed 7. It also includes the new W2 wireless chip. Apple introduced the W1 last year in its Ear. Pods and other headphones from Beats, and it was a huge improvement over the standard Bluetooth chips used in other devices. The W2 might double down on those advances. Additionally, Apple has also introduced a new gray color in ceramic, and a bunch of new bands. The new Series 3 will retail for $3. Series 1 will be $2. Last year’s Series 2 appears to have been retired. The new watches go on sale September 2. September 1. 5th. And Apple is going to need a cool factor if it hopes to fend off Fitbit, which is launching its own smartwatch, the Ionic, next month. While that watch won’t have LTE it will have nearly a week of battery life. Updating.. It’s i. Phone day! Read more.
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