Melbourne METAL-Space
Thanks to donations from our members in addition to time and energy from folks like Steve Brown, Gene Wade, and others, our metal working area is just about ready. The mill has just about everything…
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Building Pinewood Derby Cars!
Last Saturday we had an open house for building Pinewood Derby Cars for our Pinewood Derby Unleashed event! We had quite a group of people from kids to adults building their cars. There were many…
Turn ESP8266 wifi module into fake WeMo switch for Amazon Echo
Do you want to do home automation on a dime? Sure we all do! So instead of paying $40-50 per outlet, how about $10-15 (or less!)? Here’s what you’ll need: ESP8266 module = http://goo.gl/eXgLSy = Ebay…
Chair Party!
Today we had a great chair party! What’s a chair party you ask? It’s where you have 20 chairs that need assembly and you invite everyone to come out, eat donuts, and put them all…
SQL Class was a Great Success!
We had our SQL / database management class yesterday December 12, 2015. This was class 5 of 5 for the web development series so now everyone who has come to the classes have learned just…
Retro Gaming Night 2015
We just held our first ever Retro Gaming Night on Saturday. It was a huge success! There were at least 40 attendees throughout the day. Most of the games were played on emulators but some…
Small Makerspace Upgrades!
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…
Web Programming Class: CSS
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…
Presentation at B&N Mini-Makerfaire
Arlo and Tony volunteered and presented at the Melbourne Barnes & Noble Mini-Maker Faire. We had a great group of visitors and hopefully inspired people to visit our Makerspace in the near future.
Retro Gaming and Computing Night
We’re going to have our own retro gaming and computing night similar to the ones they have at the Makers Local 256 makerspace in Huntsville, AL. https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/Retro_Gaming_%26_Computing_Night Any computer or game console made in the…