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Hack Cool Things with Microcontrollers
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Every Day
- Hack Cool Things with Microcontrollers
What: Come learn to make cool stuff with microcontrollers!
When: Any time! Most projects take about 1.5 to 2 hours
Where: At the Huge Hardware Hacking Area! (Room A04 in the hackcenter -- in the basement)
Who: You! Anyone can learn this fun and useful skill.
Cost: Instruction is free! Use of all tools is free! We ask that people pay only for the cost of the parts used -- kit prices range from €10 to €20. Bringing your own projects is welcome!
Abstract:
Learn how to make cool things with microcontrollers at this ongoing workshop at 26C3!
Full Description:
Stop by the tables of solder irons and make something cool! Even if you've never even sewn a button, you can learn to make cool things with microcontrollers. Join the fun, as hundreds have at Congresses and Camps. Plenty of parts and kits are available, including Brain Machines, TV-B-Gones, Trippy RGB Waves, Mignonette Games, and other fun projects you can take home with you. Mitch and others will be there day and night showing you everything you need to know. Turn off TVs in public places, trip out to your brain waves, move objects, play games -- you can make microcontrollers do it all. It's easy, it's fun, it's where it's at!
bio
Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places.
He also co-founded 3ware (a Silicon Valley RAID controller company), did pioneering work in Virtual Reality at VPL Research, and created the Brain Machine, one of MAKE Magazine's most popular DIY projects.
He contributes to MAKE Magazine, and for the last several years has been leading workshops around the world, teaching people to make cool things with microcontrollers and teaching everyone to solder.
Mitch is one of the co-founders of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hacker space, and he is President and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.
Resources:
http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com
(click on the "maker faire" tab).
