Events
Help Improve the Craft Area
Help us improve the Makerspace! We are expanding and rearranging the area for sewing, crafts, and the laser cutters (the east wall of the classroom). Help us move things around and get free lunch! We’ll be getting pizzas and drinks, as is customary for such events. RSVP on MeetUp
Grand Re-Opening
Saturday February 12 from 12:30pm to 5pm, we are hosting a Grand Re-Opening to celebrate the completion of our amazing new Woodworking Shop. It is an incredible workshop built by people passionate about woodworking, for the betterment of the community. There will be free hamburgers and hot dogs, and a garage sale where we will …
4th Annual Retro Game Night Recap
We had another great Retro Game Night held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This is the event where we bring all of our old video game consoles and hand held and computer systems that were released before the year 2000. This year we had the original Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo Virtual Boy again. …
Coder Dojo Robotics Class Recap
Our third set of official Coder Dojo classes (5 Sundays in a row) was held back in Nov-Dec and covered beginner robotics. To make it fun we wanted to make fighting robots. To keep the costs down we chose mini sumo style competition where the robots push each other out of the ring instead of …
Coder Dojo is a Hit!
Our Coder Dojo classes are the most attended of all. We had to get out our spare folding chairs from the closet to be able to seat every one. These classes are all absolutely free and geared to kids ages 10 and up, but if they are younger and still interested bring them anyway as …
Raspberry Jam: Happy BDay Raspberry Pi
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 …
DIY Christmas Ornaments Recap
Last Wednesday for Arts n Crafts night we had a guest teacher for making our own Christmas ornaments. There were clear ball style ornaments that we decorated by putting chunks of crayons inside. Then we used hair dryers and heat guns to melt the crayons and then move the ball around to “paint” the inside …