We’re moving to a bigger space just a few doors down from our current location. So now there’s more room to work on projects and have more classes and events as well as more tools! Come out any portion of the day to help us move tables, chairs, 3D printers, laser cutter, table saw, band […]
Melbourne Makerspace is Moving to a Bigger Space! Read More »
For the past four Wednesdays we’ve been using the Hobby-vac vacuum former we built to create chocolate molds. We’ve found a great plastic sheet to use from widgetworksunlimited.com. It’s PETG which is FDA food safe and is the same plastic you see all those “clam shell” packages at the stores. We did need to visit
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At tonight’s Wednesday night arts and crafts we had someone that wanted to make their own business cards. He brought his own stack of card stock so it was off to a good start! He also already designed the artwork so we pulled it into Inkscape and started copy/pasting the cards to fit a bunch
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Today we held the official, final Mini Sumo autonomous fighting robot competition tournament. It was done in a round robin style with two bots per match with best out of three rounds winning the match. Each robot got a point for winning a match. We gave a Raspberry Pi 3 starter kit to the first
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We had lots of visitors come out and play some old school video games at the makerspace today. We did allow emulators since we had very few original consoles. We played games from the original Atari 2600 like Asteroids and Space Invaders, original Nintendo games like Super Mario Bros. and Galaga, as well as some Sonic
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We will wipe the dust from our original Nintendo, get the old Apple IIe out of the closet, crank up the Sega Genesis, and have a big party playing old retro games! Any computer game or console that came out before the year 2000 will be allowed. We’ll even have a few systems with hundreds
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Our next class series will be building, programming, testing, and fighting mini sumo robots! Mini sumo bots are fully autonomous with no remote controls! We have worked tirelessly putting together kits full of parts to bring the cost way down so almost anyone can get started for $26! We laser cut and 3D printed as
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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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I was invited to the Nation of Makers meeting at the White House August 24th. During the day I work as an Engineering Specialist at a local Defense/Aerospace Company. Evenings and weekends I volunteer my time helping to organize Melbourne MakerSpace as an Education Officer and a member of its board of directors. www.melbournemakerspace.org What
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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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