The Robots are Coming
One of our members is building a cool robot. Come to a Thursday night meeting and find out what it’s for…
DIY Tennis Ball Dispenser
Tennis coaches often hand-toss the balls to the students at a very slow pace to help them work on the correct form and technique. A CVMake member built this machine to automate that task. Watch the YouTube video on how it operates. Machine Specs: Here are the parts needed: The next part of this project […]
The Third Place
There is a term for the physical place, that isn’t home or work, where you hang out with friends, find a sense of community, and chill in interesting surroundings. The third place. Wikipedia definition below. “In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of […]
Analyzing Output with an Oscilloscope
Working on an LED array, sometimes you like to see what’s happening to the signals bopping through the wires. In this case, trying to find out why the array was displaying everything correctly except that it was mirrored right-to-left. Being able to see these signals helped fix it! An oscilloscope displays voltage over time. If […]