Our friends from the REMAKE Festival in Belgrade are organising it this year in Berlin and we are offering a workshop as part of the program for people who want to get started with electronics: Introduction to Interactive Electronics.
This workshop, aimed at beginners, shows the basics of ‘Physical Computing‘ with the Arduino microcontroller in the Fritzing framework. No prior knowledge is required, but it usually helps to know a little programming. If interested, please send your mini bio and motivational letter to: vedrana.boskovic@ gmail.com
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 5-15 COST PER PERSON: just daily or four-day Festival Ticket
MATERIAL NEEDED:
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Laptop: ideally with the latest version of Arduino and Fritzing pre-installed. If you don‘t have one, don‘t worry, you can probably share with your workshop neighbor.
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Fritzing Creator Kit which you can buy at the workshop for a discounted price of 89€.
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Good mood and crea- tive ideas. Fritzing is an open-source initiative supporting designers, artists, researchers and hob- byists, aiming to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product.
Fritzing participated this year at the Open Hardware Summit for the first time! It was such a great event! We had the feeling everyone we knew, or once talked to or even heard of was there!
It was also so cool that the MIT hosted the event this year, the organisation was perfect and the venue very nice. The talks were very inspiring, but most of the exciting stuff and the interesting conversations happened in the corridor outside where the demos and posters were shown.
It’s so impressive to see how well people from the “scene” know each others, and how everyone shares very specific details on their designs and businesses so openly. In other industries this would be a well protected “trade secret” but not in here!
It was also very refreshing to have so many makers who want to go professional come to us and benefit from our experience in going from shipping 20 kits a month to more than a thousand. We showed on our poster the key elements of an ERP system and how to implement one. What to take care of and how to do it right.
We also had so many long time fritzing users pass by and give us some feedback.
We are still on the go in the US, expect a few follow-up posts in the next few days.
Calandria is the winner of the Fritzing Goodie Contest!
Finally, the last parts arrived today in the morning. I soldered all goodie contest finalists and tried them out.
Calandria is actually a synthesizer. Two potentiometers are influencing via a LED and light depending resistor a the outputted bird like sound. In the end the PCB size, number of components and cuteness of the product were the winning properties.
Congratulations to the other two finalists, too. Both projects are quiet amazing:
Touch my piano is sounding pretty cool, like if you would play on an old saw. It is fun and I caught myself not being able to stop. The imperial march was sounding fantastic, even if Jonathan couldn’t hear, what I was playing ;)
The Fritzing Amplifier is like a module, extending the abilities of (e.g.) the Arduino Board. It amplifies the output to drive a real 8Ohm speaker and the outputted sound has a much higher quality. If you ask me, each Arduino-Kit should contain it.
Thank you all participants for your great ideas and keep on making!
Yours sincerely,
Stefan”
Read also: Goddie Contest Finalists
The PCBs arrived from Fritzing Fab and looking beautiful. We made some slight changes to reduce e.g. the size. Now we impatiently are waiting for the last parts to arrive. We keep you up to date!
Read also: Goddie Contest Finalists
We had the chance and pleasure of participating in the first MakerFaire in Germany last weekend in Hannover. It was a great chance to meet many of our users who don’t live in Berlin, also many old friends, and we also made some new friends.
We were also very excited to introduce and sell the first Fritzing Creator Kits at the MakerFaire and notice how people positively welcomed, even though there were many other kits for sale.
Below are some photos and impressions of the weekend:
Daniel and me behind the stand in our brand new kickass Fritzing t-shirts (notice the new logo).
Another angle including our homemade monster LED Matrix. - boy do we look proud :D -
Here is the first ever proud owner of the Creator kit. -he got a very special loving autograph- 
This one sale is very special to me: the older sister promised me that she would show her little brother how to “play” with Roboter and Dinosaurier. She’s a little ladyada!
It was really sweet to see this teenager explain to her father what Arduino is and what’s possible to do with it.
Father and son also bought this kit for the rainy weekends.
And this couple too. They said they were both curious about electronics and that they will explore this field together following the book.
Jonathan, our senior developer was very glad to meet Fritzing users and eager to explain to them the individual projects you can build with the creator kit.
It was a great event, we will do it again every possible time!
PS: if you were there and you took nice photos of us, please send them to our email address or post them on the forum, and thank you we love you too.