Electronics

Workshop: build your own digital clock

We are building a digital clock to our own taste. The workshop offers an interesting mix of soldering, 3D printing and laser cutting. The individual steps can be carried out in any order. On the day of the workshop we will split into 3 groups for this. The workshop mainly serves as a way into the project. Finishing it then happens at your leisure during Starship Factory’s opening hours (see opening hours).

Electronics beginners workshop

On 02 May at 19:00 an electronics workshop takes place at Starship Factory. This workshop is aimed at electronics beginners looking for their first way into electronics. Depending on the participants’ interests we will cover the following topics: Resistance, voltage, current. What are they? Simple resistor circuits Voltage dividers Calculating series resistors, and LEDs Simple transistor circuits The participation fee is CHF 15, one drink included.

Raspberry Pi workshop

On 29 October there is another Raspberry Pi workshop at Starship Factory. Part 1: getting to know the Raspberry Pi Get to know the Raspberry Pi 3 and build a wireless access point with it. Part 2: Raspberry Pi *blink* Learn to control simple electronics and let it become a thing of the internet.

Arduino Day on Saturday, 28.03.2015

This Saturday, 28 March 2015, is international Arduino Day! From 14:00 to 18:00 you can bring your own Arduino projects to us at Starship Factory, talk about microcontrollers, or find out what an Arduino actually is. There is bound to be an exciting new project in it for someone. Do you not have an Arduino of your own, or are all your Arduinos already tied up in other projects? No problem: Arduinos and other microcontrollers are available here at Starship Factory too, for a contribution towards costs.

The CHF 10 UPS power cable

Every now and then in life you come across devices such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) which deliver power not through the familiar Swiss mains plug but through the pin-laden partner of PC power cables, the C14 plug. Often you can only connect devices with PC power plugs there, because the only cables on sale have that same C14 plug on one side and the C13 plug you know from PCs and microwaves on the other.