“Ask an engineer” is TONIGHT 10pm ET

Tonight, Saturday 3/20/2010 – 10pm ET – “Ask an Engineer” – our weekly LIVE video chat! What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or an seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. To see previous chat event videos, please visit the forums.

This week we’ll go through some more of chapters one of the books we stock “Make: Electronics by Charles Platt” We checked out this book before putting it in the shop, its geared towards ultimate-beginners and teaches electronics starting from basic core of analog to some digital to microcontrollers. You’ll learn tools, prototyping soldering techniques, transistors, 555’s, etc. while completing useful projects. A nice and tidy intro! This book is a good accompaniment to learning microcontrollers/Arduino in that it fills the necessary electronics theory and background.

Topics include:

Welcome George! – He says hello
DELAYACHRON – REPLACETHEFILTERACHRON – Backorder delay.
Gizmodo iPad contest – sponsored by Epilog & Adafruit – enter and win!
Finding Ada sale March 24th – Bringing women in technology to the fore
The first Arduino ever made! (and one of the first 100!)
Open source hardware workshop – Ladyada and Adabot talk about the OSH workshop at EYEBEAM.
Arduino team visits Adafruit – First ever Arduino meet up in NYC (photos).

Chat details!

Visit our new “chat” section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
Or visit our Ustream page
For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
There will be a trivia question at the end of the night as always!
Lastly, if anyone can save a text log we’d appreciate it