Nov 2 Show and Tell

Nov 9 Build Night-Most Useless Machine

Nov 16 Build Night-Most Useless Machine

Nov 23 Planning Meeting

Nov 30 Build Night-Solar Powered Christmas lights

Some got close enough to finishing but one more night should get most

everyone to a finished product.

We have an interesting lineup planned for tonight's Show and Tell from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the HMS Beagle Science Store. -- Super Awesome Sylvia is planning to check in with us and talk about some of her projects. We will be showing one of her videos where she is working on programming an Arduino microcontroller.

Setting up this month's Show and Tell took a few minutes longer to get equipment ready for our first live webcast. Curt McMillan and his crew tonight included Richard Brull, both seen in this photo. They regularly broadcast live at the Inventors Club of KC.

(Photos by Jason O'Reilly)

October 2, 2010, Rocket Science Day at the HMS Beagle Science Store.

(Photos by Jason O'Reilly)

The morning started off a little cool and breezy. The crowd of kids and adults were having fun launching rockets. By the afternoon the crowd had thinned some.

• October's Show and Tell
• Date: Oct. 5, 2010
• Time: 6:00pm to 8:00 pm
• Place: HMS Beagle Science Store
• For Map and Directions

We're planning a live webcast of this month's Show and Tell click on our Webcast tab to see what's going on.

As Seen in Make Magazine

This is our first night building the project from Make Magazine #20 (Nov. 2009), the Lunchbox Laser Shows starting on page 110.

For our Maker's Night Out on Sept. 14, we worked on wiring an audio amplifier onto a breadboard. We had a wide range of age groups at this session for a truly family oriented evening.

(Photo by Jason O'Reilly)

The schematic we used for our amplifiers required just a few components. A resistor, potentiometer, two capacitors, and an operational amplifier integrated circuit chip.

This months Show and Tell explored an artistic theme from spray paint artwork to LED light shows.

Robbie the Spray Paint Artist

(Photo by Jason O'Reilly)

As Seen in MAKE

Last Tuesday we chose this fun and easy project, it's found in Make Magazine #12 on page 131, titled "Styrofoam Plate Speaker".

We had a good crowd of about 12 people including some new visitors who learned about us from the recent KC Mini Maker Faire.

Matt Mets left a great article on the Makezine web site about our Make:KC sponsor, the HMS Beagle Science Store.