I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, pereeverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.

One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)

#neon #teaching#STEM #glass #nyc #electronics #highschool #summer #soldering #diy #education

I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, pereeverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.

One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)

#neon #teaching#STEM #glass #nyc #electronics #highschool #summer #soldering #diy #education

💻 HomeLab & Mikrotik RB5009 💻

Do you really need the missing serial console for remote out-of-band managemnt, like most of their devices?

Well, I had one and then returned it for that reason. I've been considering it again, but not without the serial connection... so a little digging around and I found some PCB images and quick info on the OpenWRT site.

Then decided to add those bits to a fork for personal tracking... for those interested in the PCB photos and quick-doc:

- https://github.com/em-winterschon/openwrt-rb5009/pull/1/files

Clearly still a WIP, and would need to re-purchase the device to test it out... so perhaps in the next few months that will happen.

Some light discussion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/add-support-for-mikrotik-rb5009ug/104391/3

#mikrotik #networking #homelab #soldering #serial #linux