electronics
Make a Blinky Light Holiday Star
Knox Makers - Classroom 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesJoin Ray and Issac for a guided build of the USB-powered ornament/desk-piece/gift/however-you-use-it pictured above and then take it home to earn geek street cred among your soon-to-be-jealous friends.
Intro to DSP: Learn How DSP Filters Work
Knox Makers 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesNote: This will be an online class. Just before class, an invitation will be sent to the email you provide during registration with a link to join and a copy of the presentation in PDF format. DSP (digital signal processing) takes real-world signals such as temperature, speech, images and RF signals and manipulates them in…
Canceled: Switching Supply Design Walk-through
Knox Makers - VirtualNote: This will be an online class. Just before class, an invitation will be sent to the email you provide during registration with a link to join and a copy of the presentation in PDF format. Power supplies are part of most electronics projects. While linear regulator power supplies are relatively easy to design, switching…
Build a Coronavirus Blinky Light Circuit
Knox Makers - VirtualNote: This will be an online, virtual, live event. There's no better way to entertain ourselves in a socially distanced manner than to build a circuit that, well, doesn't *celebrate* the coronavirus but, um, *is* the coronavirus! We designed this one of a kind kit specifically for this class and it consists of 8 LEDs,…
Intermediate Oscilloscope Use and Understanding
Knox Makers - VirtualNote: This is a virtual event! Have you used an oscilloscope but most of the buttons and features look like hieroglyphs from a foreign land? Do you want to up your game in using this versatile piece of equipment? Have you invested hard earned cash in one of these and want to get the…
Intro to Digital Signal Processing: Image and Sound Filtering
Knox Makers - Classroom 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesDSP (digital signal processing) takes real-world signals such as images, sound, and sensor signals and manipulates them in many ways to make them more useful to us. Most of us have used filters to sharpen or soften images, remove noise, increase/reduce contrast etc. using our phones or computers. This often uses the so-called "convolution filter".…