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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We had 14 people at our show n tell on April 6, 2016 – a great turnout! There were a lot of great things to show as well: James showed a $15 device that takes any electrical component you throw at it and it will tell you what that thing
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Thanks to donations from our members in addition to time and energy from folks like Steve Brown, Gene Wade, and others, our metal working area is just about ready. The mill has just about everything we need to get a class together and Steve is going to work on getting the metal lathe going. We
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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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Do you want to do home automation on a dime? Sure we all do! So instead of paying $40-50 per outlet, how about $10-15 (or less!)? Here’s what you’ll need: ESP8266 module = http://goo.gl/eXgLSy = Ebay $1.92 with free shipping. 5V – AC Relay Switch = http://goo.gl/tQ1Q8F = Ebay $3.75 free shipping. 3.3v/5v Breadboard Power Supply = http://goo.gl/XlqIyq
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Today we had a great chair party! What’s a chair party you ask? It’s where you have 20 chairs that need assembly and you invite everyone to come out, eat donuts, and put them all together in a giant assembly line. We were able to assemble 15 chairs in about 45-50 minutes! Thanks to everyone
We had our SQL / database management class yesterday December 12, 2015. This was class 5 of 5 for the web development series so now everyone who has come to the classes have learned just the tip of the iceberg for the major parts for getting a web site, web app, or internet of things
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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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I made a few small upgrades here and there to the space today with help from Jack and Mike. The first upgrade was changing from painter’s tape to old hard drive magnets to hold the camera and raspberry pi to the Makerbot 3D printer! Now it’s much easier to remove and re-position when the 3D
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Tony and Josh taught the second of five web development classes today. This time we covered Cascading Style Sheets or CSS. We went over the very basics using the w3schools.com CSS tutorial. We started the class off making sure everyone that wanted to install Brackets on their machine had it installed correctly. Using the live
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