Anyways, given the moratorium on posting images and progress updates publicly for a while, here’s a picture of Max with a Mariachi Band to keep you all entertained.

Also, I need to mention that this is a collaborative effort with Tim. Tim the CAD expert. Thanks Tim.

For those interested here are the ‘Mr.Exposure’ specifics:
2) 250 watt halogens (UV filters removed)
2) Separate, Fused TRIAC control circuits
Able to expose single or double sided boards up to about 7″x9″
Will be controlled by a arduino or atiny. (total overkill, I know)
Exposes pre-sensitized boards in about 4-6 minutes
Cut/Routed from 1/2″ MDF

The total cost was around $40 (including minimalist arduino / etc). We could get this down to about $30, but where is the fun in that?

- We will ship anywhere within the US
- We will not ship international (yet)
- We will be adding a couple more products soon
- Shipping is fixed. 1 or 100 items is the same price
- USPS Standard is $2.50 per order
- USPS Priority is $6.50 per order

- 5 Hackerspaces will compete in a professionally recorded web-only event.
- theTransistor has already been selected as one of these groups.
- The build-off should start the first week of August, but the exact dates are still unknown.
- The build-off will last 2-3 Weeks.
- Participants will not be required to show up every day.
- The build-off will revolve around a task that will be announced on day 1 to all participants.
- Each space will be given a budget to complete the task.
- As far as I know there are no prizes / etc for ‘winning’. This will be more about learning and doing.
- Participants will not be required to be a member of the hackerspace or pay any entry fees to help.
- Participants appearing on camera will need to sign a basic agreement with the producing company. ( Very basic: you aren’t allowed to talk about the results / etc. until after it ‘airs’, they aren’t responsibly if you blow up / melt / etc.)
- You DON’T need any special skills; this should be about the community. Anyone who would like to can participate.

If this interests you please stop by this weekend (2010.07.31, 6:00pm) for more details and to sign up. This will be a great opportunity to get together and help with a project.

theTransistor has been commissioned to create a MAME cabinet for a local business. Their employees will spend many a break using this machine. ( All games will be licensed of coarse. )

We will have a parts budget of around $1000.00 to complete this build, and we will cover the entire process from the ground up. Here is an estimated timeline:

Week 1 (Jul. 17): Planning and Research
Week 2 (Jul. 24): Design the cabinet in Autocad
Week 3 (Jul. 31): Order parts / Prepare artwork in Illustrator / Photoshop
Week 4 (Aug. 7): Get parts back from CNC, Build cabinet
Week 5 (Aug. 14): Internal Assemblies
Week 6 (Aug. 21): Final Assemblies / Artwork Installation / Completion

The panels will be CNCed, we will order professional artwork. This will be a good 1st group project for the space. Come be a part!

This project will be open to the public. Come and watch or help. Just show up to Arduino / Electronics night and ask. Currently Saturdays 6pm to 9pm.

I would suggest a couple changes for version 2, but we can save that for another day. All in all this is a pretty sweet board and it’s PERFECT for most of our Arduino projects. ( I won’t post the downsides as much of it may be personal preference, and this is a good board. )

Now go visit EMSL and order a couple! If you need the FTDI programmer I suggest Modern Device, though the programmer at EMSL should do fine.

P.S. We will have FREE Make:Provo decals for everyone attending the initial meeting!

Since last the page was updated, we’ve made some organizational changes here at tT. We’ve moved the start time of Arduino Night from 5PM on Saturday nights to 6PM on Saturday nights. This is basically when people have been showing up anyways, so the change is just to match reality. We encourage anyone who’s interested to come down and have a look around, bring their projects or ideas and share them with everyone. It’s usually a fun time, with lots of cool projects, people, old-school gaming systems, and random silliness.

We’re also intending in the near future (or so Deven keeps telling me…) to update the website to have a store which will allow us to sell our Minimalist Arduino kits to anyone willing to pay for shipping in addition to the price of the kit. Currently we only sell them here at tT in Provo, but keep an eye out for this store to appear here soon.

A few people showed up for Rock Band Night (overlapped Arduino Night a bit also). I couldn’t find a picture of everyone at once, so here’s this one.

If your company would like to schedule a time to use our space for a company event, please contact Deven.
( deven [AT] thetransistor [DOT] com )

Why, yes. Tesla was a founding member. Why do you ask?

http://thetransistor.com/arduino/

Those of you who have been anxiously waiting to get your hands on one should come down to our festivities this weekend: Arduino Night, and the monthly Make:SLC Meeting. We’ll be showing them off at both, so feel free to stop by. As always, bring your projects down to show or work on. We hope to see you this Saturday!

Alicia working away.

Here’s the first version of our programming / test board. (v1.0) We have several plans to improve on this model, but for now it works great!

Alicia insisted on programming all of them.

Batch 1 completed! For those counting, yes I took 3 before we could take the picture.