Teaching Students to Design and Prototype
Working to effectively teach prototyping. The accessibility of computer assisted design (CAD) tools for 3D modeling is outstanding. Tools like Blender, Rhino, SolidWorks, and Fusiuon360 are just amazing...
Category: MakerSpaces
Plumbing Pipe Music – Building a PVC Flute
Last week, while watching various people play the bass guitar on Instagram, I was presented with a video of a person playing a home-made stringed instrument. This guy, Nicholas Bras, was certainly having...
Search & Rescue on a Local Scale – Radio Transmitter Hunts
This last Saturday 25 people including about 10 University of Oregon community members gathered at one of our local parks by campus to work on a transmitter hunt to find a hidden...
The STEM Power of Rocketry
Rocketry, at the high-power level, really offers lots of opportunities for STEM learning. I have been involved with L1 and L2 rocketry for more than a decade and the DeArmond Makerspace in Price Science...
Emerging Technology & Digital Bird Nests
J.Stephens/R.Stephens I had the honor and pleasure to work with some great colleagues this summer (June Stephens, and Joe Cerreta and Patrick Sherman from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) on a project to show off new...
The Benefit of HAM Radio
A set of 2-meter / 70-cm Handheld radios with some other functions including GPS, temperature, FM Radio, and APRS tracking, a 10-meter radio, a 2-meter radio beacon, a remote camera and other odds and...
MakerSpaces in the World of Pandemics
The DeArmond MakerSpace was certainly not alone in the response to the Covid-19 Pandemic spreading across our country, but I still want to highlight what we did. When the spread of virus hit the...
Building Directional Antennas
In my last post I wrote about using radio beacons connected to the APRS or Automatic Packet Reporting Service for some of our DeArmond MakerSpace student’s projects. This is where a radio broadcasts data...
Tracking Across Landscapes
So, in the University of Oregon DeArmond MakerSpace, in preparation for one event that probably won’t happen, but also for another event that likely will, we have been working on our beacon systems...
Into the Hands of Motivated Students
One of the fun things to do is to get equipment into the hands of students that will create and have fun with a project. Recently, the University of Oregon Department of Geography...