Autodesk didn’t just acquire Instructables, their CEO is publicly celebrating the maker movement, TechShops and more…
This Saturday, September 24th, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass will speak at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the San Jose opening of TechShop, the world’s first and largest membership-based, do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio.
TechShop offers building and creating opportunities to individuals who don’t have the space or funds to purchase expensive building tools. Autodesk’s Carl Bass who is a maker himself, and has always had a great affinity for communities that want to design and create things, will be on site on Saturday to speak with attendees about the value that TechShop’s accessible services will offer the South Bay. Autodesk supplies its powerful 3D design and engineering software to TechShop locations around the country to give inventors the tools they need to create the next industrial revolution.
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Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
