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M5 ECE Makerspace
M5 is the ECE makerspace and it is here for all ECE students - seven days per week!

Your support will enable us to offer students more project grants, more training opportunities, more electronic components,  more external professional fabrication (of PCBs, etc), more IC fabrication (via Tiny Tapeout), more test equipment, more staff support and a more welcoming community environment.

M5 serves all ECE students with a 5,000 sq. ft. facility, test equipment, a machine shop, thousands of electronic and mechanical components and most importantly, a very helpful staff of undergraduate engineering interns who help their classmates enhance their ECE education through hands-on projects. 

 

What will your gift enable? 

To give you an idea... 

 1. Your support will fund more project grants for independent individual and group projects. 

 2. Your support will enable us to offer more real-world application- and design-oriented workshops and courses at M5. 

 3. Your support will enable M5 members to continue building out a set of permanent open-source on-site demos. These boards and systems will be available seven days per week for their classmates to explore and learn more about technologies such as Internet Protocol, PoE (Power over Ethernet), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, feedback control, analog and digital TV, AM radio, FM radio, telegraphy, analog telephony, VoIP telephony, telex, teletext, PCIe, Apple2 expansion bus (with the groundbreaking 6502 microprocessor), Linux on a Raspberry Pi 5, C on an ARM processor,  RISC-V MCUs, Arduino computing, DMX512 lighting, RS-232, RS-485, SPI and I2C serial interfaces, MIDI music interface, USB Type-C, PWM motor speed control, and more.

We know that M5 was the deciding factor for some of our students. With your support that can be true for even more students. 

Again, thank you for your willingness to support M5, the ECE makerspace at UMass Amherst! 

CMOS and palm trees,
Baird

Baird Soules
Sr. Lecturer
Director of Experiential Learning
Founding Faculty Director of M5, the ECE Makerspace
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Voice/text: 413-687-4710
Email: soules@engin.umass.edu


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