Giant Tetris Board Project Progress
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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Space Enhancements
James Dinsmore, our newly elected facilities manager, has been facilitating the heck out of our space. A crew got together this morning and put up new shelving and got some dedicated workstations set up. Amazing job James! Thank you! This also inspired the Tetris group to get our banners hung up again.
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Scratch Class Scheduled – Learn to Program!
Scratch is a fun way to get started with computer programming. Children as young as 8 (or adults! ) can quickly learn to play sounds, draw pictures, and make interactive games, while learning basic concepts such as loops that give a good foundation for future learning. Scratch is a great way to help your kids
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Makerspace Member Neil Jansen featured in articles
One of our members, Neil Jansen has developed a delta 3d printer printer / pick and place machine that has been featured on hack-a-day and 3dPrint.com! Great job Neil! We hope you win the hackaday prize! You can see Neil’s creation here and vote for him by giving him a skull. http://hackaday.io/project/963-%24300-Pick-and-Place-%2F-3D-printer The 3dPrint.com article is located here:
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Teaching Technology @ scout camp
Our Makerspace was invited to teach technology at a scout day camp. Tony Bellomo and Gene Wade set up shop at Wickham park and hosted ~300 boy and girl scouts to teach them about 3d printing, CNC Routing, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and programming with scratch. We had a lot of fun and the scouts loved
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Visit from Boy Scout troop
We had a visit from a local Boy Scout troop that we met through the Melbourne Nerdfest. They were very interested in 3D printing and have asked us to come teach a class for 2 days in June for their summer camp. It’s awesome how we are starting to branch out into the community. Besides
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Show-and-Tell April 23
Every other Wednesday is show and tell night from 7-9. Josh showed off his iRobot create – He’s going to make a telepresence robot. Only $127 at iRobot.com! James showed us a couple of USB Oscilloscopes he has been looking at. http://www.bitscope.com/pi/ – Oscilloscope that uses a raspberry pi as its processor Brian showed off
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Great Open House Turnout
Every Monday from 7-9 is open house and the space is open to the public. We had quite a few new people show up to open house last night. The membership is growing and with each new person comes a new set of skills to share and grow. Come by and check us out!
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3D printed mirror brackets
Brought in a mirror for the bathroom but didn’t have brackets. Tony graciously #3Dprinter ered some on the #Makerbot that he found on Thingiverse. Fortunate since Wal-Mart is probably closed at 12 am on Easter morning! Plus a couple items from NerdFest.
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Great Exposure at the Space Coast Nerdfest!
It was a beautiful weekend for a Nerdfest! Several of us got together and set up a booth to spread the word about our growing MakerSpace. We met lots of new people who were interested in our group and invited them to our Monday night open house. We gave out at least 200 business cards.
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