36 Projects for Your Learning Center
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Chocolate Experimentation!!
For the next few arts n’ crafts Wednesday classes (and maybe even the 3D printing and laser cutting Friday classes) we’ll be getting ready to make our own Valentine’s Day chocolates. We’ve finally come up with a good group project to use our vacuum forming machine that we built as a group. We’ll be 3D …
Milling Some Metal
A couple months back the Makerspace added a milling machine. We finally put it to some good use! The brackets on our bandsaw broke, so Steve used the old parts to mold some new parts out of some recycled old hard drives. Neat!
Thinking about a bigger Makerspace
About a dozen of us met tonight to discuss the viability of a bigger Makerspace. We have an opportunity to move into a space that is 2.5 times larger than our current space, which is also 2.5 times as expensive. View a 360 video of the potential new space on YouTube or check out pictures HERE …
Vacuum Former Build Day
Our latest group project is a vacuum forming machine. We had a meetup a few weeks ago where we made great progress and we have scheduled another one for this coming Saturday. Please check out our meetup.com site for information about the meetup. We hope to see you this Saturday to help us finish and …
We have a new mill!
We’ve added a new metalworking mill to our list of tools available at the Melbourne Makerspace. Now everyone can include metal parts into their projects and prototypes like aluminum covers for control panels, metal parts for custom latches and levers, and even molds for plastic and rubber parts! A few of us were required to …
Building a Pinewood Derby track.
Today, we began construction on the Pinewood Derby Unleashed track. There were a lot of volunteers that came to help with this project. The wood was mainly made from scrap pieces from building the loft or donated. The timing program we used was from MiscJunk.org using an Arduino and a few electronic parts and a …
Hurricane Erika coming.
Erika should become a hurricane early Monday 2015-08-31. For updates see http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/