ARLISS and Rockets
This last fall members of the UO ARLISS Robotics team were extremely lucky to have ARLISS Director, Becky Green, come to the University of Oregon to give a workshop on building L1 and L2...
Tagged: DeArmond Makerspace
Toaster Radios and SMT Technology
Thanks go out to Stanford University’s Maker Lab64 faculty for introducing us to Surface Mount Technology (SMT) for miniature circuit boards. Students from the Eugene 4J School System, the DeArmond MakerSpace, and participants of...
An Engineering Duck – At least in part
This last fall we were lucky to have William “Bill” Singhose, Professor of Engineering at Georgia Tech and past UOregon student, speak to the UO ARLISS Robotics team in the Price Science Commons’...
Slinky Seismometers
We work closely with the University of Oregon’s STEM CORE Program and here we have partnered with them (under the direction of Bryan Rebar and Dean Livelybrooks) to host a workshop on building Slinky...
Bat Detectors
At the Price Science Commons / DeArmond MakerSpace, we provide training on how to build with electronic components. Here is one of our popular projects, an ultrasonic bat detector that picks up the...
Sparking an interest in Tesla Coils
Members of the UO SAIL program build a Tesla coil in the DeArmond MakerSpace to send sparks out into the air as two coils generate high voltage-low current emitters from a low voltage-high current...
Braille Business
One of the very cool 3D print jobs that we worked on in the DeArmond MakerSpace was this Braille business card printer. You send your card through the rollers and it embosses the...
ARLISS Robots & Rockets
This fall members of the University of Oregon ARLISS team ( A-Rocket-Launch-for-International-Student-Satellites ) had a successful deployment of their rover from ~12,000 ft in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Eight of the 10-person...