Who needs Sesame Street when you can learn the same things from micro-controllers? Ok, I still need Sesame Street because life would be bleak without Big Bird. But I’m refreshing my elementary education through the use of my Arduino. I found a thermistor in a box of parts. It looked like it came from an [...]

Took my younger brothers to show them Arch Reactor last night.  It was my attempt to get them interested in electronics other than video games.  I really didn’t expect them to be to interested in anything but the MAME cabinet that was there.  I figured it was still worth a shot and at the very [...]

A couple of members at Arch Reactor teach an Arduino class. Of course the Arduino is a fantastic little micro-controller that everybody loves, but we aren’t here to talk about that today. I’ve already been through the class the first time around, but this time they are focusing on a super-tiny variation called the Ardweeny. [...]