Tinkerers Meeting – April 2025

Just mirroring this post here.

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on Saturday 26th April 2025 at 9:30

We meet at:-

STEAM Cafe & Discovery Centre 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.

Possible topics

• Dragster Race Car update
• Update from Helen's visit to Event in Stratford Upon Avon
• Show and tell – Arduino CNC Control

To give you an idea of what we have been up to, please see the write-ups on this blog.

I have also reached out to the Open Street Map community to see if anyone there would be interested in meeting up at the same time.

• Tinkerers poster 2025

If you would like to ask any questions, please see our Facebook page

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Tinkerers Meeting – April 2025

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on Saturday 26th April 2025 at 9:30

We meet at:-

STEAM Cafe & Discovery Centre 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.

Possible topics

TBC

• Dragster Race Car update
• Snap Electronics
• Controlling Cnc Machines with Arduino (TBC)
• Other projects

To give you an idea of what we have been up to, please see the write-up from March

If you would like to ask any questions, please see our Facebook page

Links

• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi
  • Raspberry Pi 5
    
  • Raspberry Pi 4
  • Raspberry Pi 3
• Humble Bundle – Embedded Intelligence

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Tinkerers Meeting – March 2025 – Write Up pt 2

Another post with the videos from the meeting.

• Video 1 – Drag car
• Video 2 OA Robot
• Video 3 – Trains
• Video 4 Micro:bit car

Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on Saturday 26th April 2025 at 9:30

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Tinkerers Meeting – March 2025 – Write Up

Meeting held at STEAM Cafe & Discovery Centre 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.

It was just myself and Helen again this month, but we were busy testing Helen's Robot Drag car, this can now go the distance in <2 seconds, which is the target time. It does seem to spin after slowing down.

The Obstacle avoiding (OA) robot now works, and now has two programs attached to it, one is the OA mode, and the other it is programmed to moved around as if dancing.

The code is now on my laptop, so can be uploaded as needed, depending on what is required.

We also had a look at the Micro:bit car that belongs to Lucy M, this again works, beeps, the LEDs are a little bright, which is great in the dark.

I also had a look at the Snap Electronics kit and built up a few basic circuits including a transistor Amp.

A basic LED with switch

Transistor (NPN) amplifier with LED off

Transistor (NPN) amplifier with LED On

Transistor (NPN) amplifier with instructions.

The STEAM discovery centre also has a nice train set. This is Thomas the tank engine themed, but has track, points to change tracks and carriages for the trains.

If you would like to ask any questions, please see our Facebook page

Links

• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi

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#Torbay,#Tinkerers,#Electronics,#Hacking,#Arduino, #RaspberryPi,#Making)

Links

• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi

If you would like to ask any questions, please message Helen via our Facebook page

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Tinkerers Meeting – March 2025

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on Saturday 29th March 2025 at 9:30. Just reposting this as a reminder.

We meet at:-

STEAM Cafe & Discovery Centre 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.

Possible topics

• Dragster Race Car update
• Testing IR robot car – This should now be fixed
• Micro:bit projects

To give you an idea of what we have been up to, please see the write-up from Feb 2025

If you would like to ask any questions, please see our Facebook page

Links

• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi

Tags

#Torbay,#Tinkerers,#Electronics,#Hacking,#Arduino, #RaspberryPi,#Making

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Tinkerers Feb 25

It was just myself and Helen at the Tinkerers meet up today. We had a look at my Arduino robot, which Helen has taken home to work on.

We spent a good deal of time testing Helen's Dragstar car.

This was the first opportunity to mark out a good 7m white line track and test how well the vehicle can run along the track.

Track was marked out in the STEAM discovery centre, as this has black flooring, each tile is 500mm so 14 tiles = 7m (7000mm)

Results were excellent. The dragster has Bluetooth so can send data back to a mobile phone.

Data is sent back to phone.

Videos

Next Meeting

March 29th 2025

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#Tinkerers,#Dragster,#Testing,#Car,#LineFollow,#STEM

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Tinkerers Meeting – Feb 2025

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on Saturday 22nd February 2025. Please see their website for more details and a write-up of the May Meeting.

We meet at:-

STEAM Cafe, 13 Torbay Road 11am to 13:00

Possible topics

• Dragster Race Car update
• Fixing IR robot car

Poster

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Tinkerers Meeting 5

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on 28th September 2024. Please see their website for more details and a write-up of the May Meeting.

We meet at:-

Paignton Library, Room 12 11am to 13:00

Possible topics

Carry on looking at the mouse bot and dragster projects. Also, have a look at my LED metronome and see how this can be adapted to provide timing for playing music.

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Tinkerers Meeting 4

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on 24th August 2024. Please see their website for more details and a write-up of the May Meeting.

We meet at:-

Paignton Library, Room 12 11am to 13:00

Possible topics

Carry on looking at the mousebot and dragster projects. Also take a look at my LED metronome and see how this can be adapted to provide timing for playing music.

Tags

#Torbay,#Tinkerers

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Tinkerers Meeting 3

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on 27th July 2024. Please see their website for more details and a write-up of the May Meeting.

We meet at:-

Paignton Library, Room 13 11am to 13:00

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