Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago was excellent this past Tuesday at Saint Lou’s!

Sebastian Gajate was in town all the way from Argentina and presented The Amp Hour host @Chris Gammell with his own fútbol jersey!

Thanks to @Andrew Sowa for bringing his camera and taking the above shot and many more wonderful photos. Bart Dring brought his latest CNC build: a drawing robot based on Line-us.

Here the draw bot in action:

Brian Rutkowski’s impressive LED spinner project was a crowd pleaser!

Watch more of the dazzling LEDs in this video:

The adorable Simula robot by Jamie Laing was another favorite:

Simula made several new friends:

We were excited to get a look at the purple PCB inside:

Andrew Sowa showed the results of his technique in KiCad for converting photos into PCB artwork

We were excited to meet Jose Ignacio Romero who had designed the Low Power Continuity Tester for the One Square Inch contest on Hackaday.io last year. He brought many projects to share including this color memory LCD board:

Peter Zieba of Analytics Lounge community lab demonstrated XRF (X-ray fluorescence)!

View more photos in these galleries:

• Hardware Happy Hour Chicago (June 2017)
• Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago in motion