Escape rooms are all the rage right now – Basically, you are put in a room for an hour and you have to decipher a series of clues to help you get to the goal (escaping the room). They are a lot of fun! Using our maker powers including electronics, programming, and woodworking, we have […]
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Today we had a very successful auction to get rid of some things that have been cluttering the makerspace but have not been used in a long time. This was a great fundraising experience for us. We were able to obtain over $600 in donations from sales! Thank you everyone that was able to attend
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Today was day one of the Arduino Bootcamp. Arduino is an easy to use micro-controller platform that allows you to create simple or very complex electronic projects. You can learn more at Arduino.cc. We will hold the second class in this series next Saturday on June 25. To RSVP, head over to the MeetUp page
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Today, we had a meeting of the minds to put together some of the parts James bought so we can start putting together the kits for the mini sumo bot class and competition. The main idea for the kit is to get as close to $25 ($30 at most) as possible to make a working
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Last Saturday we had an open house for building Pinewood Derby Cars for our Pinewood Derby Unleashed event! We had quite a group of people from kids to adults building their cars. There were many different techniques used. Some used traditional woodworking techniques. Others used other non-conventional ways of creating their cars. Some used the
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Today, we began construction on the Pinewood Derby Unleashed track. There were a lot of volunteers that came to help with this project. The wood was mainly made from scrap pieces from building the loft or donated. The timing program we used was from MiscJunk.org using an Arduino and a few electronic parts and a
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We just held our first ever Retro Gaming Night on Saturday. It was a huge success! There were at least 40 attendees throughout the day. Most of the games were played on emulators but some classic machines were brought to share with everyone. There was a Nintendo Virtual Boy, an Original Nintendo Game Boy, Game
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Tony started off the class off explaining HTML and how the internet works. He began with an example on how the internet actually works. Dubbed “The Round Trip Though Internet Land” He showed how information is transferred back and forth through the internet millions of times per day. Afterwards, he explains how servers and domains
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We’re going to have our own retro gaming and computing night similar to the ones they have at the Makers Local 256 makerspace in Huntsville, AL. https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/Retro_Gaming_%26_Computing_Night Any computer or game console made in the year 2000 or before is considered retro and will be allowed in. We’ll put up the bat-signal to ask our
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Today, Tony taught a class introducing basic Linux to a class full of novice and intermediate users. With some advanced users helping solve the few hiccups we had along the way. Being that there are many variations of the operating system, it is a great operating system to learn. There are bare bones distributions that
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