Author Archives: Jeff Sturges

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The Discotech was tons of fun and a great learning experience for all!  Check out various articles written about the event by the Michigan Radio, the Michigan Citizen, and the New America Foundation Open Technology Initiative.  Also, learn more about the the Detroit … Continue reading →

Our final day was supposed to consist of more wind turbine work, but unfortunately over half of the makers were absent due to a mandatory school function. Why doesn’t anyone ever tell me about this stuff? Doh! No worries though…we … Continue reading →

Today during Open Shop, Raven and continued our work repairing the discarded stereo (See Electronics Rescue! Part 1). We finished reassembling the body with the newly soldered power cord, and began work on the speakers. In order to access more … Continue reading →

Given that the last AwesomeShop covered the basics of generators, it was time for some practical application. Using some basic kits purchased from our friends at Kidwind along with some recycled cardboard and hot glue, we built our own mini … Continue reading →

A few members of our partner hackerspace OmniCorpDetroit are participating in the The Great Global Hackerspaces Challenge. Thirty hackerspaces were invited to participate in the Challenge to help the goal of improving education around the world with technology. With less … Continue reading →

Unfolding the mysteries of electromagnetic induction…this could be the most important AwesomeShop yet! Today, we taught the makers how to produce their own electricity by making an ultra simple generators out of magnets, a bolt, a hand-wound coil of enameled … Continue reading →