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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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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A couple months back the Makerspace added a milling machine. We finally put it to some good use! The brackets on our bandsaw broke, so Steve used the old parts to mold some new parts out of some recycled old hard drives. Neat!
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We had a GREAT day working on the new vacuum forming machine. Pictures below!
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About a dozen of us met tonight to discuss the viability of a bigger Makerspace. We have an opportunity to move into a space that is 2.5 times larger than our current space, which is also 2.5 times as expensive. View a 360 video of the potential new space on YouTube or check out pictures HERE
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Our latest group project is a vacuum forming machine. We had a meetup a few weeks ago where we made great progress and we have scheduled another one for this coming Saturday. Please check out our meetup.com site for information about the meetup. We hope to see you this Saturday to help us finish and
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We held the second of two Arduino classes at the Melboburne Makerspace on June 25, 2016 from 1-5 pm. Last Saturday was the first class where we learned the basics of what an Arduino was and how it works on a very high level then did a few simple projects making an LED blink and fade
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