Giant Tetris Board Project Progress
The build team made great progress today on building our prototype Tetris board. Come on to our next meetup and join the team. It’s been a ton of fun!
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The build team made great progress today on building our prototype Tetris board. Come on to our next meetup and join the team. It’s been a ton of fun!
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James Dinsmore, our newly elected facilities manager, has been facilitating the heck out of our space. A crew got together this morning and put up new shelving and got some dedicated workstations set up. Amazing job James! Thank you! This also inspired the Tetris group to get our banners hung up again.
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Scratch is a fun way to get started with computer programming. Children as young as 8 (or adults! ) can quickly learn to play sounds, draw pictures, and make interactive games, while learning basic concepts such as loops that give a good foundation for future learning. Scratch is a great way to help your kids
Scratch Class Scheduled – Learn to Program! Read More »
One of our members, Neil Jansen has developed a delta 3d printer printer / pick and place machine that has been featured on hack-a-day and 3dPrint.com! Great job Neil! We hope you win the hackaday prize! You can see Neil’s creation here and vote for him by giving him a skull. http://hackaday.io/project/963-%24300-Pick-and-Place-%2F-3D-printer The 3dPrint.com article is located here:
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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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Now the telepresence robot has an actual support mast for the netbook it uses as the control server and video chat interface. This is much better than the stack of shoe boxes I was using temporarily. For now it is just a four inch PVC pipe with 4 inch flange on both sides screwed into
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We had a visit from a local Boy Scout troop that we met through the Melbourne Nerdfest. They were very interested in 3D printing and have asked us to come teach a class for 2 days in June for their summer camp. It’s awesome how we are starting to branch out into the community. Besides
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Using Johnny Chung Lee’s post as a guide, I was able to get my telepresence robot up and running for the first time. Then plan is to figure out a low cost way for people to tour other hackerspaces remotely and communicate almost as if you were there. I had a friend two states away
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Every other Wednesday is show and tell night from 7-9. Josh showed off his iRobot create – He’s going to make a telepresence robot. Only $127 at iRobot.com! James showed us a couple of USB Oscilloscopes he has been looking at. http://www.bitscope.com/pi/ – Oscilloscope that uses a raspberry pi as its processor Brian showed off
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Every Monday from 7-9 is open house and the space is open to the public. We had quite a few new people show up to open house last night. The membership is growing and with each new person comes a new set of skills to share and grow. Come by and check us out!
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