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4th Annual Retro Game Night Recap

Events, News / Joshua Pritt

We had another great Retro Game Night held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This is the event where we bring all of our old video game consoles and hand held and computer systems that were released before the year 2000.  This year we had the original Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo Virtual Boy again.  […]

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Solar Light Holiday Upgrade Project

Projects / Joshua Pritt

Here’s another project one of our members put together. Project- Solar Landscape Color Lights for Holidays. DIY Solar Light Christmas Upgrade For these particular lights, use the process.. 1) draw circle on the transparency film – top of spray paint can is the right size for these particular lights 2) cut out the film 3)

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DIY Stand Up Paddle Board

Projects / Joshua Pritt

As another great example of a project one of our members used our space and tools to create is a stand up paddle board.  Instead of buying one they were able to build one with just a few supplies and the hot wire foam cutter tool that a different member at the makerspace built for

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Coder Dojo Robotics Class Recap

Classes, Electronics, Events, News, Programming, Robotics / Joshua Pritt

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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Coder Dojo is a Hit!

Arduino, Classes, Electronics, Events, News / Joshua Pritt

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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3D Printed Drone Parts

3D Printing, Projects / Joshua Pritt

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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Raspberry Jam: Happy BDay Raspberry Pi

Arduino, Electronics, Events, Programming, Projects, Robotics / Joshua Pritt

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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DIY Christmas Ornaments Recap

Events / Joshua Pritt

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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Retro Game Night Recap

Events, News / Joshua Pritt

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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Retro Game Night is Dec 9!

Events, News / Joshua Pritt

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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