Electronics/Arduino Breadboard Lab
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…
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Melbourne Makerspace Grand Reopening Party!
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…
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We’ve moved into the new, bigger space!
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…
Melbourne Makerspace is Moving to a Bigger Space!
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!…
Vacuum Former Running Great!
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…
Laser cut business cards
At tonight’s Wednesday night arts and crafts we had someone that wanted to make their own business cards. He brought his own stack of card stock so it was off to a good start! He…
Mini Sumo Fighting Robot Tournament
Today we held the official, final Mini Sumo autonomous fighting robot competition tournament. It was done in a round robin style with two bots per match with best out of three rounds winning the match.…
2nd Annual Retro Gaming Night Recap
We had lots of visitors come out and play some old school video games at the makerspace today. We did allow emulators since we had very few original consoles. We played games from the original Atari…
2nd Annual Retro Gaming Night
We will wipe the dust from our original Nintendo, get the old Apple IIe out of the closet, crank up the Sega Genesis, and have a big party playing old retro games! Any computer game…
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…