After many hours and a few long nights meeting at the Makerspace our team has progressed past regional championships onward and upward. What is T.I.R.E.D doing in the Makerspace? It’s way more than building robots. FIRST Tech Challenge teams (up to 15 team members, grades 7-12) are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots …
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 …
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 …
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. Each robot got a point for winning a match. We gave a Raspberry Pi 3 starter kit to the first …
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 …
Today, we had a meeting of the minds to put together some of the parts James bought so we can start putting together the kits for the mini sumo bot class and competition. The main idea for the kit is to get as close to $25 ($30 at most) as possible to make a working …
We had a great time during our Arduino Day celebration at the Melbourne Makerspace on Saturday March 28, 2015. There were several projects to show and several to work on that weren’t quite finished. It’s always great to see all the different things you can do with an Arduino, a few sensors, switches and motors! …
It’s Pi Day! Here’s how we celebrated this holiday at Melbourne Makerspace. Our great presenter James brought a few of his projects involving Raspberry Pi’s along with versions of the brand new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. He also discussed a few uses and ways to hack your Pi. His wife baked a few delicious …
