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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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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I just followed the instructions on this page to get the raspberry pi I put by the inner door to stream the video from the Logitech C210 web cam: http://wolfpaulus.com/jounal/embedded/raspberrypi_webcam/ If you plan to install something like that for home security reasons, navigate here for references. So now you should be able to go to
Now we have TWO cameras! Read More »
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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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!
Giant Tetris Board Project Progress Read More »
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 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
Scratch Class Scheduled – Learn to Program! Read More »
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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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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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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