While at Mitch Altmans How to make cool things with Microcontrollers Workshop at the weekend I recorded quite a bit of video. I now need to cut most of this down in size and length. I have put a couple of these videos on youtube. They were taken with the incredibly inexpensive Kodak ZX1. The quality has been reduced for youtube and apologies for the hand shake that you inevitably get with these small cameras.

The first video is a great introduction from Mitch Altman and Jimmie P Rodgers explaining about hackerspaces (introduced by the great Antonio Roberts)

The second video is a great guide from Mitch Altman on how to solder properly

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Made a cool thing with Microcontrollers

by Phil on March 7, 2010

On Sunday I went to Mitch Altman’s How To Make Cool Things With Microcontrollers workshop organised by Fizzpop where with lots of help from Mitch Altman from Cornfield Electronics, Jimmie P Rogers and my son we made this:

Mignonette Game

What is it? Its a Mignonette Game a mini games console that you can build yourself. It comes pre- installed with a mini pacman type game but you can also download mini Space Invaders and mini Tetris.

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Social Bookmarking Buttons for Twitter, Facebook and Buzz

February 25, 2010

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photo credit: Huasonic
Social bookmarking buttons/badges for blogs have been popular for a long time  but with the success of Twitter the Tweetmeme button has become widely used especially with blogs like Mashable who can receive over 1000 re-tweets on popular posts. Then came along the  Facebook button which allows you to share a post [...]

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links for 2010-02-24

February 24, 2010

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TypePad Motion
Open Source Social Media Platform from Typepad
(tags: opensource software socialnetworking socialsoftware socialnetwork platform typepad sixapart)

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links for 2010-02-20

February 20, 2010

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AddThis – Get Your Button Code
Add this the social bookmarking badge has code for both Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org
(tags: tools wordpress social plugin widget bookmarking sharing)

Add to Any – Get the Share button for WordPress.com
Add to any is a social bookmarking button that can be added to a hosted Wordpress.com site via a bookmarklet.
(tags: wordpress [...]

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links for 2010-02-18

February 18, 2010

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How to Market on Flickr | Small Business Search Marketing
Guide to using the social photo sharing site flickr for business.
(tags: socialmedia howto socialnetworking social business flickr marketing photography seo images photos)

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links for 2010-02-10

February 10, 2010

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Convert PowerPoint To Video: Guide To The Best Free Services
Great post with list of ways to convert powerpoint presentations to video's that can then be uploaded to youtube or other sharing services if required.
(tags: software tools video free conversion powerpoint youtube socialmedia)

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Happy Birthday Facebook

February 6, 2010

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Facebook turned 6 years old on Friday and as well as throwing a party they announced they will pass 400 million users this week. What makes this even more incredible is that they reached 350 million users in December only required a few short months to add another 50 million (they have added 200 million [...]

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Screencasting Software links

February 5, 2010

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I am always looking for screencasting software for Mac, Linux and even Windows. I have updated my links on delicious for some screencasting software with a few great lists below:

TUAW Faceoff: Screencasting
List of screencasting software for a Mac
(tags: software tools mac screenshot screencast screencasting screencapture macosx screencasts)

ScreenCasters – DonationCoder.com
Comprehensive review of screencasting [...]

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Mass Mailing for Wordpress and Magento

December 11, 2009

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Looking for an emailing solution for a newsletter or email campaign? MailChimp is an excellent mass mailing solution which also has a plugins for the Wordpress blogging and content management system and Magento the open source e-commerce software. Links below to the two plugins:

MailChimp Wordpress Plugin | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog
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