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A trip to Forscha with Brick’R’knowledge
02.12.2016
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
14.11.2016
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
03.11.2016
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
27.10.2016
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
12.10.2016
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
28.09.2016
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
14.09.2016
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
02.09.2016
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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Brick’R’knowledge visits a university
26.08.2016
As a learning system our bricks are very popular. It´s great for schools and universities since you can try out your theoretic knowledge about electronics. The Maker Store Berlin team was very glad to be invited to the technical university of Berlin. We presented our Brick`R`knowledge sets during the lecture about electronics and robotics for mechanical […]
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Logic for beginners
18.08.2016
This post is for everyone who enjoyed the blog „Arduino for dummies“. Today´s topic is logic and I´m writing again as a beginner We´ll have a closer look at the following gates: AND, OR, NAND, NOR. The sequel wil go online next month. Let´s start with the AND. If only one button is pressed, the […]
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