Howdy, I have an engineering degree, but I’m not using it. I’m really good at mathing, problem solving, designing, and testing; but I’ve never had much hands on training. I’d like to get that through MakeICT. I’d like to use the space, equipment, and community expertise to build some electronic de…

Welcome! I will see you at orientation!

Welcome! Microcontroller boards like the various Arduinos or single board computers like the Pi are useful if you need software controlled functionality, or when it’s easier/cheaper to accomplish it in software rather than in hardware. There’s no reason you can’t have both in your tool kit, or a va…

Thank you for your welcome and response, Mark. This is just the information I’ve been looking for! Not just the technical details of these technologies, but the scope of their utility. The furthest in depth my education ever went was what value of resistor to use to obtain a certain op-amp gain. I’v…

There are many Arduino projects and tutorials on the web. While I’m personally not a big fan of rehashing stuff people have already done, there’s value in getting a glimpse of the code that makes it all tick. Same could be said from the electronics side if you’re not too comfortable it. I would high…

I suppose if there was interest I could put together a 5 person arduino class

Well, I’ve always been curious about how our household devices work, an AM/FM radio, guitar amplifier, RC car. I know the circuits are fairly simple, but I’ve never had the means to try to build them. And I’ll take all the help I can get. Besides, a hobbyist may have valuable perspectives a profess…

Or, to think bigger, Mark, a self-driving car model would be exciting. It’s a project in process, so it’s not rehashing.

So those are little questions with big answers. Modulation theory is a very complex subject. AM radio is not so bad Signal ramafication predictions of overdrive germanium transistor pairs is a very complex subject Jimi Hendrix fuzz face isn’t so bad Audio transcoding and pattern recognition is …

Hey that sounds fun… Beginners luck - a series of classes where you get all your certifications, and do basic projects in each area!

I’d argue that some of these topics are complex that have been simplified as far as the engineer is concerned due to miniaturization of consumer goods. For example, I recall opening up RC toys as a kid, and they had circuit boards jam packed with discrete transistors, caps, trim pots, resistors, ind…

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