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We are hosting “Open Make” days & nights between now and Orlando Mini Maker Faire on May 26th. The days & nights are designed to help you get your…
Power Racing Fever at FamiLAB
The below images document what happens when you bring 3 Power Wheels vehicles into a Hackerspace to start preparing for the Power Racing exhibition race at Orlando Mini Maker…
Open House @ FamiLAB
Our next Open House is Tuesday, May 1st at 8pm – come meet the FamiLAB crew, see our big new Lab, and explore our latest member projects. RSVP is not required,…
Global Hackerspace Coopcake Challenge 2012
This weekend FamiLAB took part in the Global Hackerspace Coopcake Challenge 2012 . What started as a brief mention on a mailing list became a close knit group of confection-obsessed…
Orlando Mini Maker Faire “Makerships”
Orlando Mini Maker Faire and FamiLAB, Orlando’s Hackerspace (Community Lab) have partnered to create “Makerships” to help 3 deserving recipients create (or finish) amazing projects to be displayed…
Hackerspace Passport Stamping
FamiLAB has had a few visitors over the years, with several in the past month or so. When [Spurious] visited from Hacker Consortium in Nashville, TN, he asked if we…
Sunday Morning Code
Zane is looking for interest in a software event every Sunday morning. Feel free to email classes@familab.org if you want to know when we’re meeting next.
Young Makers Meeting – January 2012
We had a great turnout for the January 2012 FamiLAB Young Makers meeting. After we gathered and one Young Maker demonstrated his drum kit made from Ikea bowls, PVC pipe,…
Intro to Soldering Class – January 2012
This month, our Intro to Soldering class was held our new space! We made Minty Boost kits, and for the second month in a row, no one was injured! Special…
Micro Monday – I2C, TC74 & Xbee
Tonight at the first Micro Monday of 2012, we learned the basics of I2C communication using the Arduino Uno and the TC74 I2C temperature sensor. Mack (f00bard) led us through…
The 3D printers are working? Wha…what?!
With a lot more space to work recently, Chris Purola and Tony Morris have been working on the 3D printers. Chris’ printer, Breepbroop, now has solid state relay controlled heated…
Portable Drum Kit for a Young Maker
From my RaisingGeeks blog: How to turn this stuff into a portable drum kit… Background: When I was at Maker Faire Bay Area this summer (already seems like…
Thermo-Electric Axolotl Cooling
So in my many ventures around the interwebs I eventually ran into a picture of an unusual animal, the Axolotl. Over the years I have cared for and been aware…
Dimmable AC Light Box
This blog post is about the very long process of how I came to make a box that could dynamically dim AC bulbs via computer control. The main purpose…
Extreme Makeover: Lab Edition (Day 1)
FamiLAB has finally moved into the new space, but it needs a little techie touch so we decided to go to town. Day 1 we focused on getting the RFID…
YoungMakers Meeting – November 2011
We made LED flashlight kits, no one was burned, and everyone was happy. It doesn’t get much better… :) HUGE THANKS to Radio Shack for donating some of the kits…
Radio Shack Flashlight Kits
For our next Young Maker’s meeting, we will be teaching them to solder using the Radio Shack LED flashlight kits. Radio Shack made these kits for Maker Faire in NY…
TEDx Orlando – 2011 Conference
UPDATE: The FamiLAB crew had a great time at TEDx Orlando – huge congratulations to TEDx Orlando organizers Dave & Jenny Casey (FamiLAB Members) for an amazing SOLD OUT event!…
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