We are Make Hack Void, a Hackerspace* in Canberra, Australia.
Our space (Map) is a community workshop in Downer where members can come to work on their projects, get access to tools and expertise, and meet like-minded people. We have membership options including associate & student membership rates, and casual membership rates.
We also hold Maker Meetups on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesdays of each month where anyone at all can chat, show and tell, get help or advice, and talk about their projects. You don't have to be a member to come to a Meetup.
Our group includes people with extremely diverse interests. Fibreglass moulds to FPGA electronics, Arduinos to DIY pizza ovens. Plus lots more. We're all interested in making things, hacking on projects, and we're not afraid of voiding warranties if we have to.
If you can't make it to the next meeting then subscribe to the Makers mailing list, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or join us in the IRC channel.
Laser Cutting from Pepakura
deece — Sun, 17/06/2012 - 11:45am
This tutorial shows how to export outlines from Pepakura to be cut on a laser cutter/engraver. This tutorial assumes you are using Windows 7.
Solder Station Upgrade
badmonkey — Thu, 26/04/2012 - 4:48pm
Recently I was looking to do some soldering, but I wasn't overly pleased with the fume extraction, so I decided to go ahead and have a crack at upgrading it.
mhvavrtools 20120329
deece — Thu, 29/03/2012 - 7:56pm
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| MHV_AVR_Tools_20120329.exe | 28.77 MB | 1f6e67248850764f495a1e04d40d5442 |
- Update to GCC 4.7.0
- Add AVR-GDB
- Add SimAVR
What's in a cheap RC helicopter?
wil5on — Wed, 08/02/2012 - 12:40am
Bought a small, cheap RC heli a while ago. Didn't play with it much, decided it was time to see what was in it! Unfortunately I neglected to take a bunch of photos of the internals - I might do so later and will fix this article up if I do.
I got the heli from Hobbyking - it was only $10, an impulse buy on top of an existing order: http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=11309
Cameras in the space!
wil5on — Thu, 26/01/2012 - 11:17pm
I put up some webcams around the space attached to an old laptop. I used them to record a timelapse video today!
As you can (hopefully) tell from the video, one camera is looking at the welding area, and the other is looking down onto the electronics bench (taped to the magnifier). I'll be adding more cameras and rearranging everything when I can.
mhvavrtools 20120122
deece — Sun, 22/01/2012 - 6:58pm
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Size | md5 hash |
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| MHV_AVR_Tools_20120122.exe | 23.29 MB | 85113cc937a76dd033239d0f3abc7b21 |
All files supplied are self-extracting - under *nix machines, set the permissions to execute and run them to extract.
- Fix missing library problems in previous release
- Add MacOSX support
mhvavrtools 20120109
deece — Mon, 09/01/2012 - 11:18pm
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Size | md5 hash |
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| MHV_AVR_Tools_20120109.exe | 22.58 MB | 0849efa18bdf237d9b11cfde5887ba62 |
- Upgrade GCC to 4.6.2-20120106
- Upgrade AVR LibC to 1.8.0
Errata
- This release did not actually include AVR LibC - avoid it!
MHVLib 20111227
deece — Tue, 27/12/2011 - 8:31pm
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| mhvlib-20111227-2.7z | 532.92 KB | 50e8c04393f11049edfd8de8c830a7e6 |
- Use object references instead of pointers where applicable
- Add WS2801 LED driver & RGB pixel types
- Add Unipolar stepper motor driver
- Ensure all tutorials use NORETURN/UNREACHABLE
mhvavrtools 20111222
deece — Thu, 22/12/2011 - 7:31am
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| MHV_AVR_Tools_20111222.exe | 23.6 MB | 768260aafbe5f1c479eb35f872264684 |
- Update to latest GCC 4. snapshot
- Statically link GCC dependancies
- Include the correct libusb-win32 package so avrdude will launch
- Add preliminary support for Linux
Errata
- The libiconv-2.dll file is missing from the Win32 installation.
- AVR LibC is missing some symbols.
To resolve these issues, extract the attached errata archive into C:\Program Files (x86)\MHV AVR Tools
MHVBoard Useful Information
deece — Sat, 10/12/2011 - 10:16pm
JP4 pinout
The right angle connector has the following pinout (starting from the pin near JP1):
