ASK AN ENGINEER 8/28/2010 (video).

ASK AN ENGINEER – 8/28/2010 10pm ET TONIGHT!

Lots of stuff and some SURPRISES!

What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer your engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

See you there!

“Ask an Engineer” 8/21/10 – SPECIAL GUEST AMANDA “W0Z” WOZNIAK (video)!

ASK AN ENGINEER – SPECIAL GUEST AMANDA “W0Z” WOZNIAK 8/21/2010 10pm ET! By popular demand – “Ask an engineer” Saturday night – 10pm ET with special guest Amanda “w0z” Wozniak. w0z was on a few previous shows (our most info-packed ones so far) – and she designed the MONOCHRON clock enclosure. W0z also designed the very popular and amazing DefCon Ninja Party Badges. W0z is a staff Electrical Engineer at Wyss Institute and formerly an applications Engineer at Analog Devices. This will be a great show.

What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer your engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

software for the ninja badges here + files here.

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

See you there!

We talk reflow and more! HD version here…

TONIGHT! “Ask an Engineer” Saturday 10pm EDT 8/14/2010. What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Topics may include:

• Reflowduino – A reflow toaster/plate controller.
• Mouser shipping tips to save money.
• Adafruit in O’Reilly Japan – Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 10.
• MULTICHRON – customer mods to the MONOCHRON!
• Sponsor information for the Open Hardware Summit & tickets are now on sale.
• NEW PRODUCT – The LoL Shield, A charlieplexed LED matrix for the Arduino.
• WINNER – Case for Arduino molding (video) + CONTEST.
• NEW PRODUCT – Arduino Ethernet shield with SD card connector – Assembled (NEW VERSION!).

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

See you there!

“Ask an Engineer” TONIGHT – Saturday 10pm EDT 8/7/2010. What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

See you there!

Massive “Ask an engineer” show! – MintyBoost Kit v3.0, enclosure for Arduino and more!

“Ask an Engineer” TONIGHT – Saturday 10pm EDT 7/31/2010. What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Topics tonight include:

• For two hours 10pm ET to 11:59 pm ET you can pre-order the MintyBoost (new version, works with iPhone 4G, 3Gs…)
• EPLIOG laser reports a record month and year, DIY community
• DEFCON badges (Amanda w0z) designed!
• Adafruit projects on github (there’s more)
• Thermocouple Amplifier (MAX6675) breakout board, Thermocouple Type-K Glass Braid Insulated – K
• New enclosure for Arduino! And how it was made!
• New tutorial Ice Tube Clock + low cost GPS (discussing GPS vs atomic)

Testing the MintyBoost at the iStore, all testing was perfect!

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

See you there!

“Ask an Engineer” chat – 07/24/10 (video)!

- Power switch tail
- Thermocouples
- Mag-stripe reader tutorial

“Ask an Engineer” Saturday 10pm EDT 7/24/2010. What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

- HOPE conference.
- Open source hardware definition.
- Card reader

Bigger version of the video @ vimeo.

- Solar Minty Boost
- Chumby hacker board
- Lots of Q and A

As always, special thanks to George for the excellent video work post-production and getting the recorded version up online!

“Ask an Engineer” Saturday 10pm EDT 7/10/2010. What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

“Ask an Engineer” chat – 07/03/10 (video)

- ALL ABOUT BATTERIES!
- New LiIon/LiPoly charger
- New Battery – 1200mAh