Category Archives: Kit

Arduino and the Minimus 32

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Paul Brook

We recently bought a big pile of very cheap AVR Minimus 32 USB dev boards via Manchester Hackspace. These ship with a DFU bootloader.  This works fine when building regular C code, but that involves a fair learning curve for … Continue reading →

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OggCamp, Printers and Pi

Posted on September 1, 2012 by jon

We’ve had a busy couple of months since my last update, with more new faces (more members are always welcome, there’s still plenty of room!) and some great progress on one of our larger projects. 18th/19th of August brought OggCamp … Continue reading →

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A Busy Weekend

Posted on May 15, 2012 by jon

Saturday saw 3 of us take a trip to Harrogate for the Model Engineering show, thousands of square feet of exhibition space filled with tool porn and stunning models (though the term “model” doesn’t really do them justice!). It was … Continue reading →

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What to do with a mountain of op-amps?

Posted on March 27, 2011 by jon

Through a series of strangely interconnected events we currently find ourselves in posession of massive quantities of 741 op-amps. Which leads to the question of just what can you do with a lot of them (apart from maybe making a … Continue reading →

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