[Gghc-discuss] Electronics coming today and working sessions

[Erich Heine]

Hi Chris,

This is awesome. The stuff that exists is still minimal, but I am willing to
write up anything else as needed.

Perhaps you can suggest a list of docs, etc that would help her understand,
and we can start gathering them?

Regards,
Erich

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we can connect, I'd like to see if my friend Lisa would sit down with a
> description of the prototype and the prototype itself to give feedback on
> it. We could capture her thoughts as a STEM educator for UI Extension to
> support it's efficacy in the classroom or in after school programs.
>
> Is there a description of it already written?
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Manton <jmanton at illinois.edu>wrote:
>
>> The electronics for the prototype are arriving today (a day early).  I'm
>> going to go to the fablab around 4:15-ish to make some breakout circuit
>> boards so we can connect to the arduinos with ribbon cable (I have ribbon
>> cable and connectors and headers).  I'd appreciate company/help from anyone
>> that can show up.  I'll have my acrylic too, if anyone wants to work on the
>> front panel/case design.
>>
>> I'll be adjourning to the makerspace whenever it works for everyone else
>> to start putting the circuit together, and to sort of merge in with the
>> Thursday open hours (are there Thursday open hours?).  There is plenty of
>> work for multiple people - we could probably have 3 people working at the
>> same time on getting the prototype together.
>>
>> Anyone who wants to work on this stuff send an email to the list saying
>> when you are available and what type of stuff you want to work on.
>>
>> Hopefully we'll be able to start doing software on the actual hardware
>> later tonight.  I'm pretty excited :-)
>>
>> As a side note - does anyone have any logarithmic potentiometers?  The
>> value isn't as important (10K or 100K or whatever) as the fact that it is
>> logarithmic.  We need 2, one for the microphone (to set gain) and one for
>> the speaker (to control volume).  U of I EE stores didn't have any.  It
>> isn't a big deal, we can always order some, but it would allow us to get the
>> audio pieces working in the prototype.
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