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3 juin

Excited makers on the Westcoast

03.06.2016

„The greatest show (and tell) on earth“ – the Maker Faire has its origin right here: in San Francisco. Being the Maker scene’s biggest creative festival, the Maker Faire Bay Area was a must for us as lovers of and participants in the Maker Movement. We shared a booth with our internationally known partner Arduino.org […]

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19 mai

Maker Faire Taipei – a report

19.05.2016

I flew to Taipei last week to participate in the Maker Faire with my Taiwanese colleagues David and Jason. As usual, the Maker Faire was on the weekend – for the first time, however, outdoors. As the weather was very nice, it was actually a good idea to have our booth outside. The Maker Faire […]

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3 mai

First modular experimental system worldwide

03.05.2016

Watch video We could present our bricks to a number of radio amateurs at this year’s SHF meeting in Rosenfeld, Germany where we also gave a speech on our latest innovations regarding everything around SHF. We showed the audience how our bricks could be used in the 75 Ghz (W band) frequency range that is […]

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29 avril

1. Teachers’ day @ Berlin Maker Space

29.04.2016

We had the first teachers’ day in our Maker Space in Berlin this week. Our Maker Space is at the center of Berlin, in Prenzlauer Berg where creativity does not have any limit. It’s our goal to get the next generation interested in technology by introducing and teaching it in a cool way. We would […]

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28 avril

The first place went to…our bricks

28.04.2016

This year’s ham radio conference took place on 12th and 13th of March in at the University of Munich (http://www.darc.de/distrikte/c/amateurfunktagung-muenchen). In this context, there was a competition dealing with the target of building a morse key and transmitter that receive their power only due to the morse motion. Participants were allowed to initially give ten […]

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28 avril

DIY constructions are popular

The Brick’R’knowledge team was at the Ham radio conference in Munich last month. This time, we did not only have a booth showing our bricks to the public but Rolf-Dieter Klein, our bricks’ inventor, had two presentations at FH Munich: At the conference: “Brick’R’knowledge from DC to GHz. Modular development system for radio amateurs and […]

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28 avril

Can electronics be creative? Sure!

The following three projects show how to integrate creative electronics into everyday life, for instance, when monitoring your most important things or creating a birthday present for your friends. Theory is very important but it’s way more fun putting theory into praxis. Even children will be able to implement the following cool projects that are […]

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28 avril

And the winner is…

We made it: in the competition for the “IT Innovation Price”, our Arduino Coding Set was honored among the BEST OF in the category “Hardware”! www.innovationspreis-it.de For this reason, we would like to introduce the set to you in more detail: The idea behind our Arduino Coding Set is to enable users to experience analogue […]

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28 avril

Back from Maker Faire Ruhr

Maker Faires are fun and offer exciting topics for everyone. You only need to be a little curious and in the mood to learn something new – then a Maker Faire will be a great enrichment for you from which you will profit and develop expertise. We’ve just returned from the Maker Faire Ruhr and […]

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28 avril

Flashback 2015

What happened in 2015? The year started with a series of new experiments on Facebook. From this moment on we asked you to send us your own circuits made of bricks. We announced our first Frequency Measurement Brick in February and proudly presented it on the following trade shows. Furthermore, our “Let’s build” series started […]

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