We have a special guest coming by this Thursday to do workshop about programming your Baofeng Radio. These are inexpensive portable ham radios, $25 on Amazon.
The presentation will begin at 6:30pm – Dec. 17 2015. Bring your dinner and join us in the fun!
This coming Tuesday (Nov 3) at 7:00 PM, we have some amazing people from YourDuino.com coming by Makers Local 256 to give a presentation/demo/Q&A on Arduino microcontrollers and embedded electronics in general. They’re touring around the Southeast and ML256 is one of the many places they chose to stop by!
Their main objective is to talk to people about Arduino and what you can do with it. They’ll have some kits and parts available during and after the presentation, so if you don’t have an Arduino (or two) already, you can pick one up then. They’ll be showing off a neat display of a few different Arduino projects and circuits, so it should be interesting and fun!
They’ll be going through the entire process of designing, connecting, and coding up a simple Arduino project from start to finish. If you have any questions about your own project, they would love to discuss ideas and give help where they can.
There’s no cost to attend the presentation, but they will have parts available for sale if you need them. Anyone is welcome to attend!
Retro Gaming & Computing Night was held on October 17th. We had almost 100 people show up for the event (biggest turn out yet). We made a timelapse of the evening. Hope you enjoy and hope to see you next year.
Makers Local will be hosting a pumpkin carving Saturday October 24th. We expect people to arrive as early as 5:30 for carving pumpkins, but it will continue on for as long as people want to carve 🙂
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As some of you may have noticed, there is a giant new laser cutter at the shop! Since my interests are less acrylic and wood and more fabric and yarn, I decided to ask Tyler to laser cut some leaves out of felt for use in a fun fall wreath. Here is how I did it: