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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To learn more about this class and schedule or to RSVP and sign up start with the blog post here: http://melbournemakerspace.org/2014/08/arduino-workshops-start-october-4-2014/ The first class went really great today! There was a full house of 28 people with every single chair and extra chair used by those ready to learn the ins and outs of arduino.
Arduino Classes Off to a Great Start! Read More »
Melbourne MakerSpace presents a series of Arduino Workshops beginning Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Have you heard about Arduino? “Arduino is a single-board microcontroller, intended to make the application of interactive objects or environments more accessible. The hardware consists of an open-source hardware board designed around an 8-bit Atmel AVRmicrocontroller, or a 32-bit Atmel ARM. Current models feature a USB interface, 6 analog input pins, as
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It’s time to celebrate! We had our 25th member join on Monday. Dale also heard our Makerspace being mentioned on the radio this morning. Great job getting our name out there Trevor!
25 Members Strong! Read More »
Who would have guessed there would be so many members at a makerspace that also loves board games? We put up a post to have a board game night on meetup.com and in our member Google hangout thinking there would be three or four other members that would like to play some board games. We
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Chris from Hobby Town brought a whole bunch of different size and shape remote control multicopters. He showed us all the basic parts required to make everything from a basic one that has self leveling all the way up to fully autonomous, tell-it-what-gps-coordinates-to-fly-to-and-it-will drones. There were some with cameras attached and some without. Some can
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I just followed the instructions on this page to get the raspberry pi I put by the inner door to stream the video from the Logitech C210 web cam: http://wolfpaulus.com/jounal/embedded/raspberrypi_webcam/ If you plan to install something like that for home security reasons, navigate here for references. So now you should be able to go to
Now we have TWO cameras! Read More »
Tonight was probably the biggest turnout with the most projects to show and tell about than we’ve ever had. Josh Pritt showed his Zumo “mini sumo” robot and the wooden arena he made for them to compete on (with help from Tony Bellomo and his circle cutting jig.) If anyone wants to build a mini
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The build team made great progress today on building our prototype Tetris board. Come on to our next meetup and join the team. It’s been a ton of fun!
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