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How To Start A Hackerspace: The List
The List: The Essential Hackerspace Checklist
This document is "The List" - it is the direct result of the overwhelming interest in starting Hackerspaces that hit my inbox after co-founding PSOne and HacDC. When so many people asked for help with the very basics of starting and running a successful Hackerspace, I compiled this list to make it as easy as possible for potential Hackerspace founders to hit the ground running (and not forget anything important). Since then, “the list” has been distributed and shared within Hackerspace culture. It has helped with structuring the success of many Hackerspaces - and hopefully with this update and public release, it will serve as a handy go-to checklist for your awesome Hackerspace-to-be.
KTOWN's Ultimate Creating Parts in Eagle Tutorial
Listen up! KTOWN is going to school you right in EagleCAD!
Creating parts in Eagle isn't difficult, but you do need to understand a few things about how Eagle organizes things internally. This tutorial will walk you through everything you need to know to start making reliable, manufacturable parts today!
Eagle Tutorial - How to add a new package to a component
Save time by re-using existing packages and symbols
This little tutorial will show you how to create a new package for an existing device. It's not a beginner tutorial so you'll have to learn how to use Eagle first, but its one of those skills that can save you tons of time
How To Start A Hackerspace: Money and Resources
Fuel For Your Fire
If you want a hackerspace where everyone can pull off capers, kickass projects and work on epic (or dorky) hacks, you're going to need the cash to make it happen - all while keeping the lights on at the same time.
How to Make a Pogo Pin Test Jig
Get jiggy!
If you end up buying a pick and place to assemble PCBs (or even if you're doing it by hand) you'll need to test out your boards! If you have an assembler do it for you, its still probably a good idea to have a jig you can give them. A good jig will tell you whats going right and whats going wrong. In this tutorial I will show how I designed a very basic jig with a "tested good" audible indicator. The board its testing is very simple but the basic premise can be expanded to large projects with ease.
Creating Accurate Footprints in Eagle
A guide to making footprints in Eagle that accurately reflect the mechanical outline of your parts
SMT Manufacturing
Our mods, hacks, tips and tricks for SMT manufacturing.
Here are a bunch of tutorials for manufacturing small to medium scale (10 - 10,000) piece surface mount electronics.
Barcode Scanner
Zebra vision
This mini tutorial will cover how we use barcode scanners. This isn't necessarily an Arduino project, but it is a tool that we use every day when shipping packages - instead of entering in invoice numbers, we use a barcode scanner.
Digital Shipping Scales
Digital Scales
This tutorial will cover digital shipping scales! I know, exciting, right? But really, if you need to sense weights and get them into a computer or microcontroller, these are really easy to find, fairly accurate and easy to use.
USB NeXT Keyboard with an Arduino Micro
Get out your 10 lb keyboards!
Ladyada and pt had an old NeXT keyboard with a strong desire to get it running on a modern computer. These keyboards are durable, super clicky, and very satisfying to use! We spent a few days and with a little research we got it working perfectly using an Arduino Micro as the go between. Now this lovely black deck works like any other USB keyboard. Sure it weighs more than our Macbook, but its worth it!
TIMESQUARE Watch Kit
Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome looking DIY watch.
Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome looking DIY watch. Build your own fashionable time piece, with multiple watch 'faces' and a bright 8x8 matrix display
Tiny Arduino Music Visualizer
Maximum blinkenlights, minimum effort!
This easy project combines an Arduino with our microphone amplifier and bicolor LED matrix to create a music visualizer that responds to ambient sound.
Wave Shield Voice Changer
Speak like everyone's favorite baritone Sith lord or sing along with the Lollipop Guild!
Like a fine wine, open source projects improve with age. We've taught this classic shield a new trick: a realtime voice changer!
Light Painting with Raspberry Pi
Awesome photographic effects!
Light painting — a technique mixing photography with electronics — becomes astoundingly simple when Raspberry Pi is involved.
Babel Fish
RFID language learning toy with sound
Create a speaking flash card game with Adafruit's wave shield and NFC/RFID shield for Arduino inside a box made to look like a yellow fish - a nod to Douglas Adams.

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