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4th Annual Retro Game Night Recap
We had another great Retro Game Night held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This is the event where we bring all of our old video game consoles and hand held and computer systems that were released before the year 2000. This year we had the original Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo Virtual Boy again.
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Coder Dojo Robotics Class Recap
Our third set of official Coder Dojo classes (5 Sundays in a row) was held back in Nov-Dec and covered beginner robotics. To make it fun we wanted to make fighting robots. To keep the costs down we chose mini sumo style competition where the robots push each other out of the ring instead of
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Coder Dojo is a Hit!
Our Coder Dojo classes are the most attended of all. We had to get out our spare folding chairs from the closet to be able to seat every one. These classes are all absolutely free and geared to kids ages 10 and up, but if they are younger and still interested bring them anyway as
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Retro Game Night Recap
We had lots of people drop by the space last Saturday to take a tour of the place and play some old school video games. We counted more than 50 guests of all ages. There were 5 raspberry pi computers set up on monitors with USB gamepads and retropi software. This let us play Atari,
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Retro Game Night is Dec 9!
Mark your calendars! December 9 starting at 5 pm at the Melbourne Makerspace there will be food, fun, and tournaments for bragging rights all for FREE. Video and computer games that were released on or before the year 2000 is considered a retro style game. So there will be original game systems from Nintendo, Sega,
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Settled in to Our New Space
Hello makers! It’s been a few months in our new space, and it seems we’ve finally settled in. Our classroom area has been set up, offering more space to teach, to learn, and to make! A projector, tables for work, and even whiteboards have been installed. Pictured are Josh, Josh, and Dean. At the entrance
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We’ve moved into the new, bigger space!
We’ve officially moved into the bigger space and it is wonderful! There’s so much room for activities! It’s in the same building as before, only a few doors down on the south corner. It’s actually suite 125 and 126 combined. Here’s a gallery of photos taken during the move in weekend over March 25-26.
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2nd Annual Retro Gaming Night Recap
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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Closed until after Hurricane Matthew
Due to Hurricane Matthew we will be hard locking the front door in case of a long duration power outage. We will open back up sometime on Friday, Saturday morning or whenever the storm has passed. We will send out an email to all members and the meetup.com list to let everyone know.
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