How To Get Involved

There are many ways to contribute to the DorkbotPDX community. Some of us are information junkies, so we have adopted a wealth of ways to share between ourselves and any passersby. Here are a variety of things you can do if you are interested in being a part of this crowd (we are most definitely non-exclusive!):

  • Present on something interesting you're doing/working on/interested in at an upcoming meeting! Let Thomas or Jason know if you have some ideas.
  • Sign up for the mailing lists.
  • Join us on IRC.
  • Sign up on this site and create a member page.
  • Join the DorkbotPDX Flickr group and post pictures you think we should see. The last five of these will appear in the righthand sidebar of the site.
  • Tag your del.icio.us posts with "dorkbotpdx" if you'd like others in the group to see them. You'll notice that these links appear in the low part of the sidebar of the site just like the Flickr pics.
  • Sign up for our Vimeo group and share your Dorkbot videos.
  • Best of all: join us at our bi-weekly meetings.
  • If there's some other way you'd like to get involved or you'd like to make DorkbotPDX aware of something you're working on, feel free to contact us via any of these means.

Comments

Arduino Midi Anyone?

I'm new to Arduino and would like to create a Midi controller using this interesting new circuitry. Any information about what I might want to purchase to get started would be just grand. My goal is to create a Midi Concertina Accordion controller much like this one: http://home.stny.rr.com/peverett/gadget.html , only using Arduino. If successful, I imagine a small Midi band meeting late evening upstairs at the Lucky Lab in Multnomah Village. I too work with electron microscopes . . . must be something in the water here in the NW? Cheers, BD


Help in at90usb162 isp programming...

I have seen the page named regarding at90usb162 project, I am trying to load the program in at90usb162 using ISP. But I am not able to load the program in the chip. I have connected the MISO,MOSI,SCLK,GROUND and Reset to parallel port pins...I want to ask one thing about prog_reset you connected to pin 14 instead of pin 24??? Please guide me through this...Is it possible to program the chip at90usb162 with only ISP connection shown in your figure?


Mega8 Programming help needed

I am new to AVR programming and to AVR studio and I'm trying to program an ATmega8-16 project without any success. I would really like to sit down with someone that has experience programming these parts to show me what I'm doing wrong. I know it's not supposed to be this difficult. Please let me know if you can help.

Thanks, Scott


Overdone Capchas...

What in the hell is up with these SERIOUSLY overdone capachas? I had to go through the process about a half dozen times. I was really miffed that there was no audio counterpart. Dig. Peace, hewnstone.