We have a five part class coming up over the next few Saturdays (except for Thanksgiving weekend!) to cover the major parts of everything you need to know to build a web site or web application (e-commerce shopping cart, member databases, and even web guestbooks.) So if you’ve ever wondered how the internet works and […]
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Today, Tony taught a class introducing basic Linux to a class full of novice and intermediate users. With some advanced users helping solve the few hiccups we had along the way. Being that there are many variations of the operating system, it is a great operating system to learn. There are bare bones distributions that
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Melbourne Makerspace put on a 3D printing class for a group of home school pupils. Flo Mandus from a home school group contacted us on 2015-08-14 requesting classes on, 3D printing, CNC class and Arduino. The 1st class was on Wednesday 2015-08-26 at 1:00 PM.
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Our next set of classes will be for an introduction to computer programming. We’ll be using the Python language since it’s one of those that are easy to get started and easy to get something useful built on various devices like Raspberry Pi as well as “Internet of Things” projects. These classes are for anyone
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The Arduino classes are over with nearly 30 students participating. We had lots of fun sharing the knowledge on everything from the very beginning basics for how to use an Arduino to make a light blink up to advanced topics like making fully autonomous fighting robots. Everyone seemed to enjoy the format of the classes
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To learn more about this class and schedule or to RSVP and sign up start with the blog post here: http://melbournemakerspace.org/2014/08/arduino-workshops-start-october-4-2014/ The first class went really great today! There was a full house of 28 people with every single chair and extra chair used by those ready to learn the ins and outs of arduino.
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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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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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Sorry for the late update everyone. Life’s been pretty busy with all the holiday stuff happening. Class 3 at the Melbourne Makerspace was a recap of weeks 1 and 2, as well as an introduction to basic circuits. 25 attendees enjoyed getting together and learning together basic electronics. Using components such as resistors, capacitors, transistors,
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Today, we held our second course on the Basic Breadboard Electronics classes. Today’s session we discussed component identification. There are 2 parts to this course. Part 1 and Part 2. We apologize for the delay of the classes by a week. The parts that Jaycon Systems ordered were held up in customs last week and we were unable to hold the
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