Pinewood Derby Unleashed Race Recap
We had the Pinewood Derby Unleashed race on Saturday with much fun amid all of the carnage of the souped up extra…
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We have a new mill!
We’ve added a new metalworking mill to our list of tools available at the Melbourne Makerspace. Now everyone can include metal parts into their projects and prototypes like aluminum covers for control panels, metal parts…
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…
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…
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…
Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire Nov 6 – 8
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…
Sign up for our web development classes!
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…