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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We have two 2 new members. Jason Morelli-Harlan joined 2015-01-05 Matthew Roche joined 2015-01-05 Matt Jason
Welcome New members. Matt and Jason. Read More »
There are new videos about things being done at Melbourne Makerspace. Added seven (7) on 2015-01-04. We now have a total of 19 videos. Look at out YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3tuTzK0RwxJrtZ3I6bEQkg
Seven (7) new videos on our YouTube channel on 2015-01-04. Read More »
After securing the front door and building a table for the front office, we are now ready to start building the communications center. One of the first hurdles is to mount antennas outside the building on the roof. Since we can’t violate the roof or the building it was decided that a saddle on the
Communications Center (HAM Shack) Now Operational. Read More »
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
Makers Love Board Games Too! Read More »
