Now we’re back with Elisa’s Adventures with the SpikenzieLabs Dice Kit! When we left off, I had accidently soldered the PIC Chip backwards. So it was time to take action and win this battle of the solder! My weapon of...
I'm Elisa Shoenberger and I’m building the SpikenzieLabs Dice kit, which is an electronic die that you tap or shake that rolls a number from 1-6. This particular kit was recommended as a good project for a beginner like me. I have...
Today we reached a milestone: 1,000 orders at chicagodist.com! When we started this business a little over a year ago, we never would have imagined how quickly it would grow. Thanks to our awesome customers, we are expanding and adding...
We are super excited about the Adafruit Bluefruit. This compact device allows easy communication to and from an Arduino via Bluetooth. It literally worked on the first try for us, and that is pretty impressive. No fuss at all! Tonight...
Last weekend we sponsored and exhibited at the Chicago Northside Makerfaire. The show was a lot of fun, and we met a lot of great people! We enjoyed spreading the word about Maker Electronics and products like the Raspberry Pi....
One our first Raspberry Pi projects was to use an Adafruit 8x8 LED display to show time and temperature. This was a fun project...we actually learned how to generate numbers on the 8x8 by hand. Yesterday we...
We really like the Adafruit Trellis keypad, and realized that it would be a great Monome. Then it occurred to me...my daughter loves blinking lights and music, how cool would it be to make her a Baby DJ Monome for playing...
I have a 10 year old Saab that had some....starting issues today. The battery was dead, but I did not know the root cause. Before rushing out to buy a battery, there are a couple things that can cause this....
First off, we would like to thank our customers for a GREAT first quarter 2014. Business is doing well and the pace kept strong all winter. We are having fun and continuing to expand our product offerings. On average, we...
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