A New Challenger Appears
A new sumobot, designed and built at the Makerspace!
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3D Printing
Makerbot Demonstration
The Makerbot Replicator 2, in action, making a souvenir coin.
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3D Printed Drone Parts
One of the many benefits of membership at the Melbourne Makerspace (or any makerspace really) is not just access to expensive and complicated tools like laser cutters and 3D printers, but also having access to other members with different skills to help you with your personal projects. I recently crashed my custom built UAV/quadcopter/drone and
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Let’s Make Fidget Spinners!
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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FIT Inflatable Heat Shield Prototype
One of the groups at the Florida Institute of Technology used the 3D printers and other tools at the Melbourne Makerspace to work on their engineering prototype for the Florida Tech Engineering and Science Student Design Showcase. They designed and printed the rings to simulate the various inflated tubes of their idea for an inflatable
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Sign up to build your own battle robot!
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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Retro Gaming Night 2015
We just held our first ever Retro Gaming Night on Saturday. It was a huge success! There were at least 40 attendees throughout the day. Most of the games were played on emulators but some classic machines were brought to share with everyone. There was a Nintendo Virtual Boy, an Original Nintendo Game Boy, Game
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Show n Tell – Oct 21, 2015
Tonight we had a lot of cool projects shown by some members! 3D printed glow in the dark skull. 3D printed glow in the dark spiders. Red ball chasing robot upgraded with 3D printed custom grabber claws. Solar PV house panels + electric car field trip. 3D printed custom wire guide clips for LED screen
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no-theory 3d printing with our printers class 2015-05-30
Saturday, May 30, 2015, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM I have done 3D printing classes where I’ve discussed theory and how everything works, but the feedback I’ve received seems to suggest people want less theory and structure and more “how do I print my thing” That’s what this class is for. We’ll download something, set up
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New Kick Starter, HuncHBack, by Adam Shaber
Well it had to happen sooner or later. So now it has. One of our members, Adam Shaber, has started a Kick Starter project. HuncHBack
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