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The Most Common Basic Electronic Components These are the most common components Resistors Capacitors LEDs Transistors Inductors Integrated Circuits I didn’t understand the  resistor  in the beginning. It didn’t seem to do anything! It was just there, consuming power. But with time, I learned that the resistor is actually extremely useful. You’ll see resistors everywhere. And as the name suggests, they  resist  the current. But you are probably wondering: What do I use it for? You use the resistor to control the voltages and the currents in your circuit. By  using Ohm’s law . Let’s say you have a 9V battery and you want to turn on a  Light-Emitting Diode (LED) . If you connect the battery directly to the LED, LOTS of current will flow through the LED! Much more that the LED can handle. So the LED will become very hot and burn out after a short amount of time. But – if you put a resistor in series with the LED, you can...

Have you ever come across a talking Robot before? This robots even talk exceptionally well and they help make things work on time.And they even assist in getting several task done in time.Do you know you can make yours! Its without any argument that you can do exceptionally anything as much as you can imagine. from programming artificial intelligence to making non living things interact with each others and especially teach each others, all this are possible if only you can be open-minded and think crystal clearly. And funny enough you have all that you might need. Starting from the Arduino Microcontroller to the largest 3D printer, that you can affordably get. You can make a lot of things because Just You can Do it! I will encourage you to read more about our article on Arduino to have me understanding of what you can do with it.Good luck!

Seventeen-year-old secondary school student, Ismaila Suraju, has built a planting machine and a locally-made power generator that uses water and batteries, among others. They young boy who says his next target is to build an aeroplane, also claims to have the knowhow to construct a gadget that can frustrate election riggers in Nigeria. When he was younger, 17-year-old Ismaila Suraju was forced to make a pair of slippers out of a cardboard to shield his feet from the scorching soil of the farm path. The necessity of protecting his face from the sun also compelled him to produce a baseball cap, then cars, train, grinding machines, all with the same cardboard. NE gathered that half way through his secondary education, Suraju graduated into using aluminum sheets in making not only miniature automobiles, such as fire extinguishing vans, excavators, but a large size planting machine that can be used for planting, as well. “Anything I see, I will like to do. We went for competition. I saw...

CHECK OUT THIS PROJECT FROM FABLAB BARCELONA Previous Next IAAC  Campus  in  Valldaura Self-Sufficent Labs  hosted last week a working session for the ROMI EU project together with IAAC’s partner  Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris  to set the starting point and the development plan of this  H2020 project . The main goal of the project , which will be carried on at  Valldaura Labs  under the direction of  Jonantan Minchin , is to develop an  open and lightweight robotics platform for micro-farms . After a week of work and sharing, the team analysed and collected data to plan the next steps of the project and the next meetings. Throughout the week,  Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris  team in collaboration with the  IAAC  ,  Fab Lab BCN  Experts and the support of  Noumena  team, build and test the first  Rover ROMI . The Rover (land robot) acquires detailed inf...

Tanmay Bakshi is a software developer who has published several apps and source code, as well as an author of a textbook on the programming language Swift. He has been invited to be a TEDx speaker. He has published "Tanmay Teaches" YouTube videos, and was the youngest IBM Watson Developer. He started coding at the age of 5 and built an iOS app at the age of 9. Bakshi has featured in articles by the Huffington Post India, NDTV, CBC News Toronto, QZ. Find more in the Programmers World in the Navigation Bar

London:  Setting an unprecedented record, a seven-year-old British boy of Pakistani origin has become the world's youngest computer programmer. Muhammad Hamza Shahzad, resident of Handsworth area in Birmingham has been trained by his father Asim, who works with an American IT firm.   "I want to be Bill Gates," he told 'Birmingham Mail' this week. This is not the first time when Hamza has set a world record, he had become the world's youngest Microsoft Office Professional (MOP) last year at the age of six. In an exam, where candidates needed 700 points to get the coveted certificate, Hamza has scored 757, a Microsoft spokesperson said, adding he is now proficient in Software Development Fundamentals. "He can easily create Web App and manages to develop his own basic shopping cart app," he said. "He has got his hands dirty in Windows desktop App, console App, windows services, Web services and finds it really fun to develop simp...

The mission of the GreenLab is to hearten the innovativeness of the Nigerian populace by encouraging the utilization of dormant and abundant eco-friendly resources in the urban/rural areas of Nigeria. As well as to collaborate with other facilities in promoting the sustainable development of NIGERIA and AFRICA as a whole. Work with us and be on your way to innovativeness!

Arduino Projects In this tutorial, we’re going to help you create a few simple arduino projects that are perfect for beginners.  These basic projects will help you understand how to set up the Arduino software and then connect the components to perform a specific action. If you’re completely brand new to Arduino, make sure your instructor has helped in installing your Uno safely on the board. And make sure to check that al

As you might be aware that its the greenlab vision to make sure that students are well taught and versed in the arduino microcontroller programming system and that's why your instructors must have made you aware of what the Arduino microcontroller is all about. For more understanding of the subject matter, read the following article on Arduino. What is Arduino? Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software.  Arduino boards  are able to read inputs - light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the  Arduino programming language  (based on Wiring ), and  the Arduino Software (IDE) , based on  Processing . Over the years Arduino has been the brain of thousands of projects,...

  GreenLab Microfactory is a digital fabrication initiative that is implemented within the confines of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. GreenLab will be based on the frugal innovation (that is, the democratization of manufacturing activities in the rural settings), open source hardware, appropriate technologies and the reverse innovation concepts, thereby shattering ‘rent economy’ and grossly empowering all willing individuals. Most importantly, GreenLab will be solely focused on the development of environmentally friendly feasible technologies, as well as the development of technologies that enhances livelihood and sustainability of the human race as a whole. At the GreenLab, we won't just innovate but greenovate, we won't just collaborate we will greenlaborate... The Greenlab student blog is meant to serve as the online source for enrolled students of the one pupil one arduino initiative. Videos for class reviews are available. Tutorials on arduino projects are also ...