Joshua Pritt
Posts by Joshua Pritt
Coder Dojo is a Hit!
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 […]
3D Printed Drone Parts
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 […]
Raspberry Jam: Happy BDay Raspberry Pi
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 […]
DIY Christmas Ornaments Recap
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 […]
Retro Game Night Recap
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, […]
Retro Game Night is Dec 9!
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, […]
Settled in to Our New Space
Hello makers! It’s been a few months in our new space, and it seems we’ve finally settled in. Our classroom area has been set up, offering more space to teach, to learn, and to make! A projector, tables for work, and even whiteboards have been installed. Pictured are Josh, Josh, and Dean. At the entrance […]
Web Development Class Off to a Great Start!
This past Saturday we had the first of 5 classes for our professional web development company. The first class was basic HTML and the web. It was probably our most attended class yet! There were 23 people total in attendance of all ages and experience. We had kids, teens, adults, and seniors all with no […]
Let’s Make Fidget Spinners!
What a fun way to learn how to use the 3D printers and laser cutter as well as how to use CAD 2D and 3D software to design or tweak others’ designs. We are going to use Wednesday’s arts & crafts night to learn how to design our own fidget spinners! Then we’ll use Friday’s […]
FIT Inflatable Heat Shield Prototype
One of the groups at the Florida Institute of Technology used the 3D printers and other tools at the Melbourne Makerspace to work on their engineering prototype for the Florida Tech Engineering and Science Student Design Showcase. They designed and printed the rings to simulate the various inflated tubes of their idea for an inflatable […]