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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Who would have guessed there would be so many members at a makerspace that also loves board games? We put up a post to have a board game night on meetup.com and in our member Google hangout thinking there would be three or four other members that would like to play some board games. We
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Chris from Hobby Town brought a whole bunch of different size and shape remote control multicopters. He showed us all the basic parts required to make everything from a basic one that has self leveling all the way up to fully autonomous, tell-it-what-gps-coordinates-to-fly-to-and-it-will drones. There were some with cameras attached and some without. Some can
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I just followed the instructions on this page to get the raspberry pi I put by the inner door to stream the video from the Logitech C210 web cam: http://wolfpaulus.com/jounal/embedded/raspberrypi_webcam/ If you plan to install something like that for home security reasons, navigate here for references. So now you should be able to go to
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Tonight was probably the biggest turnout with the most projects to show and tell about than we’ve ever had. Josh Pritt showed his Zumo “mini sumo” robot and the wooden arena he made for them to compete on (with help from Tony Bellomo and his circle cutting jig.) If anyone wants to build a mini
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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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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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We made a nice box with all the woodworking tools available at the makerspace. We used the router table to cut a nice slot in the top for money or whole envelopes full of money. We’ll have it here at the space for those that drop by on our Monday night public nights and bring
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Several members will at our booth at the Space Coast Nerd Fest this Saturday April 12, 2014. Stop by and check out a 3D printer, raspberry pi, an arduino or two, and some other neat projects built by our members. Learn how you can also have access to the tools you need and the people
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