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Arduino Workshops Start October 4, 2014

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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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Makers Love Board Games Too!

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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

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Another great show and tell!

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Chris from Hobby Town brought a whole bunch of different size and shape remote control multicopters. He showed us all the basic parts required to make everything from a basic one that has self leveling all the way up to fully autonomous, tell-it-what-gps-coordinates-to-fly-to-and-it-will drones. There were some with cameras attached and some without. Some can

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Our Best Show and Tell Night Yet!

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Tonight was probably the biggest turnout with the most projects to show and tell about than we’ve ever had. Josh Pritt showed his Zumo “mini sumo” robot and the wooden arena he made for them to compete on (with help from Tony Bellomo and his circle cutting jig.) If anyone wants to build a mini

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Scratch Class Scheduled – Learn to Program!

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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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Teaching Technology @ scout camp

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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

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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

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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

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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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Great Exposure at the Space Coast Nerdfest!

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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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