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…
Category Archives: Robotics
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…
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.…
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…
Mini Sumo Bot Brainstorming
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…
Happy Arduino Day!
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…
Our Pi Day Celebration!
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…
Welcome new member, JoJo 2015-02-15
Jojo is our newest 3D printer. Constructed by Tony and others.
Telepresence bot has a new body!
Now the telepresence robot has an actual support mast for the netbook it uses as the control server and video chat interface. This is much better than the stack of shoe boxes I was using…