Category: Electronics

  • Safari Hunter: The Shiny Pokémon finder

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    Dahlia Clark
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    Ok, here’s what you need to know: Pokémon X/Y is a mildly popular game on the Nintedo 3DS. While playing, you come across wild pokémon that you can catch so they join your team. Very rarely, the wild pokémon you find will be “shiny”, making it highly coveted. Now, it’s known in X/Y that the…

  • Mobile Robot Platform

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    Mark Zander
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    Who doesn’t like to play around with robots? Make them do cool stuff. So when I saw a six-legged remote control bug (called an N.S.E.C.T) at the thrift store I thought; that would make a cool base for a robot. The NSECT is supposed to be remote control but this one did not come with…

  • Diyode CodeShield V1.1

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    Simon Clark
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    Last weekend was SoOnCon, Southern Ontario’s annual hackerspace / makerspace / community workshop. This years was hosted by Diyode, and as is tradition, we were tasked with coming up with an interesting badge. We took this as an opportunity to throw our resources into the codeshield, get some proper circuit boards made, and get a…