Our third set of official Coder Dojo classes (5 Sundays in a row) was held back in Nov-Dec and covered beginner robotics. To make it fun we wanted to make fighting robots. To keep the costs down we chose mini sumo style competition where the robots push each other out of the ring instead of […]
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Our Coder Dojo classes are the most attended of all. We had to get out our spare folding chairs from the closet to be able to seat every one. These classes are all absolutely free and geared to kids ages 10 and up, but if they are younger and still interested bring them anyway as
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One of the many benefits of membership at the Melbourne Makerspace (or any makerspace really) is not just access to expensive and complicated tools like laser cutters and 3D printers, but also having access to other members with different skills to help you with your personal projects. I recently crashed my custom built UAV/quadcopter/drone and
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A couple of our members have spent many hours and their own money to create and donate a learning resource to the Catherine S Rood Central Library in Cocoa. It is a set of 36 projects all having to do with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and electronics. Each project is a fun, standalone, step by step
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Last Wednesday for Arts n Crafts night we had a guest teacher for making our own Christmas ornaments. There were clear ball style ornaments that we decorated by putting chunks of crayons inside. Then we used hair dryers and heat guns to melt the crayons and then move the ball around to “paint” the inside
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We had lots of people drop by the space last Saturday to take a tour of the place and play some old school video games. We counted more than 50 guests of all ages. There were 5 raspberry pi computers set up on monitors with USB gamepads and retropi software. This let us play Atari,
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Mark your calendars! December 9 starting at 5 pm at the Melbourne Makerspace there will be food, fun, and tournaments for bragging rights all for FREE. Video and computer games that were released on or before the year 2000 is considered a retro style game. So there will be original game systems from Nintendo, Sega,
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An undisclosed Librarian, has approached me to see if our Makerspace can help them implement something similar to our 48 Projects for the undisclosed location. Joe and I made a field trip to survey their facility and resources; we would like to meet this Saturday morning at 10:00 to lay out the project. There is
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Hello makers! It’s been a few months in our new space, and it seems we’ve finally settled in. Our classroom area has been set up, offering more space to teach, to learn, and to make! A projector, tables for work, and even whiteboards have been installed. Pictured are Josh, Josh, and Dean. At the entrance
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