Focused Workshop: Prototyping: "Breadboard A Sanguino" (22 FEB 08)

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As previously announced this months focused workshop is about
prototyping and it is intended to go with a second focused workshop on
fabrication (in may).

With that in mind we will go over breadboarding, point to point
wiring, breakout boards and a variety of techniques to get your
projects prototyped. In the process we will build a "Sanguino" on a
breadboard add the core to our arduino environment and program it.
Then we will look at the next step of putting it on a protoboard. For
more information on the "Sanguino" you can look at www.sanguino.cc
this project was created by the reprap folk who needed more I/O for
their projects. I will also be presenting as an example a small (as in
tiny) project that I will be doing using breakout boards to make
prototyping possible.

The workshop as always will be $25 and participants will walk away
with a breadboard and all components necessary to build a bare bones
"Sanguino" during the workshop. It will also include other items
including a a protoboard and socket to move the design to something
more permanent.


It is my hope that inbetween this months focused workshop and the
fabrication workshop people can collectively look at how the hardware
design can be improved on (see similar designs such as laday ada's
FuzeBox (http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?
main_page=product_info&products_id=133), and the pre arduino Number 6
board (http://six.media.mit.edu:8080/6/direction/get-your-board-ready/
numberSixStuffed.jpg/view). In the fabrication workshop we will lay
out and etch a board based on this work. Additionally I will follow up
the prototyping example from this months workshop by sending the
design to be fabricated.

I am sorry that I wasn't able to get this finalized sooner but the
extra cult induction kept me busy. Both inductions sessions went
extremely well so I think it was worth it..

As usual you can RSVP by paypalling cu...@tempusdictum.com