Makeshop™

A creative space to play with ideas, explore materials, and tinker with tools.

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

MakeShop tour May 14th

Zach A and I made this video on Saturday May 14th to show off the MakeShop space.  MakeShop is coming along nicely.  We look forward to adding more and more opportunities for making in the future. The space currently has four different stations.  The first station you will see in the video is Take Apart, where you can use different…

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ElectricShop: intro to Arduino

Join us on Thursday May 12th, Friday May 13th, and  Saturday May 14th from 10:00 – Noon and 1:30 – 5:00 in the MakeShop to explore the Arduino board.  We will have several Arduino Uno, Netbooks, and parts to make simple Arduino projects. If you our unfamiliar with the Arduino board check out this link and visit the official website…

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Intro to Arduino Shopping List

  Here is a grocery shopping list for the parts used in this weeks intro to Arduino Workshop.  The grocery shopping list has links to Sparkfun.com.  SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible. – About Us Sparkfun.com Arduino Uno USB Cable A to B Breadboard Jumper Wires Speaker Resistor…

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ElectricShop Saturday May 7:intro to Arduino

Join us on Saturday May 7th from 10:00 – Noon and 1:30 – 5:00 in the MakeShop to explore the Arduino board.  We will have several Arduino Uno, Netbooks, and parts to make simple Arduino projects. If you our unfamiliar with the Arduino board check out this link and visit the official website here. Paul

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