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		<title>Arduino Assembly Workshop Group Order</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protospace members are welcome to sign up for our first Arduino soldering workshop. We'll be assembling Arduino kits in the space and probably reviewing basics of using them immediately afterwards.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, enough is enough. The PCB making got figured out to a proof of concept level. We made a PCB that can be used for fun projects. That said, the process with all the chemicals, handling them and disposing of them, well, that sucks. And frankly I&#8217;m worried about people hurting themselves, contaminating the workshop and making a mess in general. So, I&#8217;ve decided my personal interest in PCB making is now confined to when the Zombie invasions begin, OR just cheaply having boards professionally made for me via great services like <a href="http://www.batchpcb.com/">BatchPCB</a>.</p>
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<div id="attachment_37" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 280px"><img class="size-full wp-image-37" title="ARD0002_mini" src="http://protospace.dawning.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ARD0002_mini.jpg" alt="A mostly bare Arduino PCB" width="270" height="180" /><p class="wp-caption-text">A bare(ish) Arduino PCB</p></div>
<p>On to the Arduino Assembly!</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Alright, so next up is the workshop where we solder together kits that result in us having working Arduino&#8217;s to toy around with. This is fairly straight-forward and if you don&#8217;t want to solder, you can always order your own pre-made Arduino.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On the <a href="http://protospace.ca/index.php/Workshops/N00bSoldering#Assembling_our_own_Arduinos">Protospace Wiki</a> is a detailed page on this workshop. Go check that out to learn more. As it stands, members need to know that in order to get in on the group order, they&#8217;ll need to get their payment in by September 14th.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To learn more about what you can do with an <a href="http://www.arduino.cc/">Arduino</a>, you should go <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=arduino">google around</a>. It&#8217;s a massive universe of cool projects. Here&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.dawning.ca/projects/hypnoorb/">link to the more flashy/pretty project I did</a> awhile back with an Arduino. The key to their success is they&#8217;re cheap, easy to build, easy to program and fairly easy to use.</p>
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		<title>Astronomy for Hackers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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