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First Arduino Maker Store in Berlin
For all of you who could not participate: We gathered some impressions of our Grand Opening last Saturday. Our store that has already existed since one year has become a completely new coat with new furniture, new painting and a new design. Nevertheless, we will stick to the maker moto and will keep offering workshops […]
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Grand Opening in Berlin
We would like to celebrate the Grand Opening of our first Maker Store with you! Join us on Saturday, 10th of December at 4pm! Celebrate with us and our partner Arduino, internationally known for their microcontrollers and be the first to know about Arduino’s latest products and plans for 2017 at the Maker Store. You […]
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A trip to Forscha with Brick’R’knowledge
04.11.2016 – Munich is in a frenzy of gaming! The popular 26th “Spielwiesn” took place in Munich, where game manufacturers inspired thousands of young and old citizens. Since six years the hands-on faire “forscha” supplements the games paradise in hall 2 of M.O.C Munich. Forscha presented a manifold workshop program from lots of innovative educational […]
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New brick sets 2017
We are going to give you a short forecast of our new sets today. You’ve probably already heard of our Logic Set. It will include the typical logic gates, like the AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR as well as several conductors and flip-flops. The set is almost ready and we are working especially hard […]
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Berlin calling: Workshops at the Maker Store
I would like to tell you a little more about what we do in our workshops at the Maker Store in Berlin. The idea behind it is that we would like to introduce children, youths and adults to the fields of programming, electronics, robotics and soldering. Our focus is having fun while learning something new. […]
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Solar energy for dummies part 3
For those of you who liked the previous solar posts, here comes the last part. I will go deeper into the matter of photovoltaic systems (being a complete beginner in this field myself). Let’s start with a short repetition of the last blog entries: A solar module consists of several solar cells that convert sunshine […]
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Solar Energy for dummies part 2
In part 1, we already got to know the most important terms concerning solar modules. To get a more profound knowledge, we need to know what kind of solar cells there are. The crystal structure is important, too! Our brick solar module consists of monocrystalline cells. They are made out of monocrystalline silicon disks, so […]
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Solar Energy – an introduction
For those of you who liked reading the blog posts “Arduino for dummies”, “Logic for dummies” and “Batteries for dummies” this next one will be the right thing for you. Today I’ll explain the basics of photovoltaic systems (again being a complete beginner in this field). You probably already came across solar modules or solar […]
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Batteries for dummies part 2
Those of you who read my blog post „Batteries for dummies part 1“ might look forward to the second part. Let’s start with a short repetition: In the last post we learned about batteries is and that they consist of interconnected secondary cells that are rechargeable. We also learned that the total energy content consists […]
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Batteries for dummies part 1
For those of you who liked the blog posts „Arduino for dummies“ and “Logic for beginners” will also be interested in this one. As usual, I will explain everything in easy words as I am a complete beginner myself. Lets start with a simple definition of the battery: A battery (or accumulator) is a storage […]
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