We had lots of people drop by the space last Saturday to take a tour of the place and play some old school video games. We counted more than 50 guests of all ages. There were 5 raspberry pi computers set up on monitors with USB gamepads and retropi software. This let us play Atari, …
Mark your calendars! December 9 starting at 5 pm at the Melbourne Makerspace there will be food, fun, and tournaments for bragging rights all for FREE. Video and computer games that were released on or before the year 2000 is considered a retro style game. So there will be original game systems from Nintendo, Sega, …
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 …
Brainstorming Session for Library Mini ’48 Projects’ Read More »
This past Saturday we had the first of 5 classes for our professional web development company. The first class was basic HTML and the web. It was probably our most attended class yet! There were 23 people total in attendance of all ages and experience. We had kids, teens, adults, and seniors all with no …
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 …
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 …
Saturday, April 22, 2017 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Now that we’re mostly settled into our new, much bigger space we decided to throw a grand re-opening party! We’re going to mix in a little bit of our retro gaming night too and have a few retro game stations set up around the place. …
We’ve officially moved into the bigger space and it is wonderful! There’s so much room for activities! It’s in the same building as before, only a few doors down on the south corner. It’s actually suite 125 and 126 combined. Here’s a gallery of photos taken during the move in weekend over March 25-26.
We’re moving to a bigger space just a few doors down from our current location. So now there’s more room to work on projects and have more classes and events as well as more tools! Come out any portion of the day to help us move tables, chairs, 3D printers, laser cutter, table saw, band …
Melbourne Makerspace is Moving to a Bigger Space! Read More »
For the past four Wednesdays we’ve been using the Hobby-vac vacuum former we built to create chocolate molds. We’ve found a great plastic sheet to use from widgetworksunlimited.com. It’s PETG which is FDA food safe and is the same plastic you see all those “clam shell” packages at the stores. We did need to visit …
