We took the giant Tetris board prototype and hung it in the front window at the space. Now we can have it display our scrolling marquee message “Welcome to Melbourne Makerspace” in various colors right up front where visitors can see it as they walk up or drive by. It’s currently on a simple timer […]
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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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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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This past weekend was the Introduction of our 10 week Basic Breadboard Electronics classes. It was a great turnout for the first class with over 20 in attendance. The kits provided to us by Jaycon Systems were very helpful in providing a basic knowledge of Ohms Law. James did a fantastic job introducing basic electronics principles to
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You can now sign up for James’ class on meetup! Looks like it’ll be a great series. He taught the recent Learn to Solder class and it was very informative…
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Here is a really cool flashlight design. that Instructables user EngineeringShock built that charges a bunch of caps and charges via a 9v wall wart. Unfortunately, super capacitors can only be charged to lower voltages; typically around 2.5v or 2.7v as a standard. If you place some super capacitors in series, you can charge to
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