The Benefit of HAM Radio
A set of 2-meter / 70cm Hand Held 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...
Tagged: electronics
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...
Building Autonomously Navigating UAVs
It is great to see efforts pay off. Another colleague and I helped get a student building the quadcopter in this picture. The student ran with the project, finished the drone, and is now...
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...
Next Generation Science Standards and ORESAT: Launching a cubesat into space
Through the Oregon Space Grant Consortium, Price Science Commons staff have worked with Portland State University’s Aerospace program on the plans to build and launch a cubesat micro-satellite in coming year (2019-2020). Students at...
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...