Mark your calendars! We are planning this year’s Makerspace Grand Open House for Saturday, March 16 from 12:30-4pm. Here’s what we’re planning to have: To pull this all off, we’re looking for volunteers to help with: If you’re interested in getting involved with any of the jobs listed or in planning the event, please let the board […]
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A couple of our members have spent many hours and their own money to create and donate a learning resource to the Catherine S Rood Central Library in Cocoa. It is a set of 36 projects all having to do with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and electronics. Each project is a fun, standalone, step by step
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An undisclosed Librarian, has approached me to see if our Makerspace can help them implement something similar to our 48 Projects for the undisclosed location. Joe and I made a field trip to survey their facility and resources; we would like to meet this Saturday morning at 10:00 to lay out the project. There is
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What a fun way to learn how to use the 3D printers and laser cutter as well as how to use CAD 2D and 3D software to design or tweak others’ designs. We are going to use Wednesday’s arts & crafts night to learn how to design our own fidget spinners! Then we’ll use Friday’s
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A fast-track course to basic electronics and programming lite. Saturday, April 22, 2017 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Saturday, April 29, 2017 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Saturday, May 6, 2017 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Learn more about the class’s content at: https://electronicsarduinobreadboardlab.wordpress.com/ The breadboard pictured above will be assembled in the beginning
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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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Today we had a very successful auction to get rid of some things that have been cluttering the makerspace but have not been used in a long time. This was a great fundraising experience for us. We were able to obtain over $600 in donations from sales! Thank you everyone that was able to attend
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We had the Pinewood Derby Unleashed race on Saturday with much fun amid all of the carnage of the souped up extra fast cars! Wheels were cracked, axles were bent – then straightened with a vice and pliers, and one car destroyed
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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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Arlo and Tony volunteered and presented at the Melbourne Barnes & Noble Mini-Maker Faire. We had a great group of visitors and hopefully inspired people to visit our Makerspace in the near future.
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