I made a few small upgrades here and there to the space today with help from Jack and Mike. The first upgrade was changing from painter’s tape to old hard drive magnets to hold the camera and raspberry pi to the Makerbot 3D printer! Now it’s much easier to remove and re-position when the 3D […]
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Tony and Josh taught the second of five web development classes today. This time we covered Cascading Style Sheets or CSS. We went over the very basics using the w3schools.com CSS tutorial. We started the class off making sure everyone that wanted to install Brackets on their machine had it installed correctly. Using the live
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A few of us will be at the Melbourne Barnes and Noble Mini Maker Faire on Sunday November 8 to give a presentation on our makerspace. Feel free to drop by and see everything going on next weekend since it is a three day event starting on Friday November 6 and going through Sunday
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We have a five part class coming up over the next few Saturdays (except for Thanksgiving weekend!) to cover the major parts of everything you need to know to build a web site or web application (e-commerce shopping cart, member databases, and even web guestbooks.) So if you’ve ever wondered how the internet works and
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Tonight we had a lot of cool projects shown by some members! 3D printed glow in the dark skull. 3D printed glow in the dark spiders. Red ball chasing robot upgraded with 3D printed custom grabber claws. Solar PV house panels + electric car field trip. 3D printed custom wire guide clips for LED screen
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Our next set of classes will be for an introduction to computer programming. We’ll be using the Python language since it’s one of those that are easy to get started and easy to get something useful built on various devices like Raspberry Pi as well as “Internet of Things” projects. These classes are for anyone
Intro to Programming with Python classes scheduled! Read More »
We had a great time during our Arduino Day celebration at the Melbourne Makerspace on Saturday March 28, 2015. There were several projects to show and several to work on that weren’t quite finished. It’s always great to see all the different things you can do with an Arduino, a few sensors, switches and motors!
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The Arduino classes are over with nearly 30 students participating. We had lots of fun sharing the knowledge on everything from the very beginning basics for how to use an Arduino to make a light blink up to advanced topics like making fully autonomous fighting robots. Everyone seemed to enjoy the format of the classes
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Now if you go to our camera page and scroll to the bottom you can find a link to our camera mounted on our Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer and see what’s currently printing! Here’s a shortcut directly to it so you don’t have to go through our camera page: http://j2098.xipcam.com:8282/camera/index.php
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We took the giant Tetris board prototype and hung it in the front window at the space. Now we can have it display our scrolling marquee message “Welcome to Melbourne Makerspace” in various colors right up front where visitors can see it as they walk up or drive by. It’s currently on a simple timer
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