MakeHaven Main Space
The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.
When the Radio Shack in New Haven closed we bought a bunch of kits for learning basic electronics. We have about 10 sets of kits 1 and 2. These have everything you need to do all the experiments from the Make: Electronics book
Most of the parts in these kits are reusable so the intention is that we can use them to teach classes on electronics for a fee to the public. For now we want to get familiar with the kits so we are doing a series of free sessions for members about learning electronics. We will have access to the kits and the experiment instructions. We will start at experiment 1 and work our way down the list together for an hour and a half. Then we will schedule a follow up session to do the next set of experiments. Over a number of sessions our goal will be to do every experiment in the book.
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Experiment 1: Taste the Power!
Experiment 2: Let’s Abuse a Battery!
Experiment 3: Your First Circuit
Experiment 4: Varying the Voltage
Experiment 5: Let’s Make a Battery
Experiment 6: Very Simple Switching
Experiment 7: Relay-Driven LEDs
Experiment 8: A Relay Oscillator
Experiment 9: Time and Capacitors
Experiment 10: Transistor Switching
Experiment 11: A Modular Project
Experiment 12: Joining Two Wires Together
Experiment 13: Broil an LED
Experiment 14: A Pulsing Glow
Experiment 15: Intrusion Alarm Revisited
Experiment 16: Emitting a Pulse
Experiment 17: Set Your Tone
Experiment 18: Reaction Timer
Experiment 19: Learning Logic
Experiment 20: A Powerful Combination
Experiment 21: Race to Place
Experiment 22: Flipping and Bouncing
Experiment 23: Nice Dice
Experiment 24: Intrusion Alarm Completed
Experiment 25: Magnetism
Experiment 26: Tabletop Power Generation
Experiment 27: Loudspeaker Destruction
Experiment 28: Making a Coil React
Experiment 29: Filtering Frequencies
Experiment 30: Fuzz
Experiment 31: One Radio, No Solder,No Power
Experiment 32: A Little Robot Cart
Experiment 33: Moving in Steps
Experiment 34: Hardware Meets Software
Experiment 35: Checking the Real World
Experiment 36: The Lock, Revisited