News
New Laser Cutter Donated
This piece of equipment was donated from one of the Orlando MakerSpace sister groups. It needs a new LASER tube replacement and is awaiting budget allocation for putting this into service. It is a 60-Watt CO2 designed LASER Cutter/Engraver and is capable of upgrade to 80-Watt capability. It is currently not supported in LightBurn and …
Wood Shop Expands
Currently in the works is a central PVC pipe system to feed into the vacuum dust collection equipment.
Makerspace Expansion Virtual Discussion
The makerspace is growing! Our membership is strong, but we’re busting at the seams! Space is always the number one wish we hear from members. We have tons of stuff, but it’s getting cramped. We have even more equipment available to us, and nowhere to put it. Suite 127, next to us, is going to …
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 …