Meetings
Gold Coast Barcamp #14
The 14th Gold Coast Barcamp is on at Techspace on Sunday 4th March 2018 from 10am until 4pm. Come along for a day of informal talks
The 14th Gold Coast Barcamp is on at Techspace on Sunday 4th March 2018 from 10am until 4pm. Come along for a day of informal talks
The Advance Queensland team is coming to TechSpace next Wednesday night. This is a great opportunity to find out about the range of innovation grants and
A few months ago the local Mudgeeraba Show contacted us with a problem: “Help! We need an app!” Volunteers down here at Gold Coast TechSpace got together
It’s Barcamp time again! We are running the 13th Gold Coast Barcamp at the (newly renovated) Gold Coast Techspace building in Mudgeeraba. Sunday 5th March,
TechSpace is closed for painting from the 30th January through to 20th February 2017 Our last meeting before closing is Wed 25th Jan ( details ) and
video1: FollowBot overview Overview: The aim of Project FollowBot was to build an autonomous robot that could follow a person around a house. We wanted
We’re proud to be part of the 88th Annual Mudgeeraba Show on the 25th & 26th of June. Come on down and check us out.
A great evening at TechSpace! HackerGrant Demonstrations: We had four project demonstrations tonight: IVAN (In Vehicle Alert & Notification System ): Demonstration of an alarm that
Demo video of the home made Robot Arm!
A nice base was created for Project Armed, providing power and a nice counter balance for the arm to operate.
FollowBot is now moving forward and backwards, tracking the object size and decided what to do. Good progress! And it now has a bumper bar to prevent
Added a bumper bar to the FollowBot while it is learning to drive. Also wide angle lens allows the Raspberry Pi to see better and track faster
Just connected a 2-axis servo mount for the camera. Now the eye can track objects independently of the moving robot base. Good fun!
The “FollowBot” project comes to life with working left/right object recognition. A combination of Python & C++ running on a Raspberry Pi3 allows this robot to
Great presentation by Henry about strongloop and loopback.
Simple concentration game powered by an arduino. LED shows score.
Playing with a rotary encoder. Detecting which way and how fast the knob is turning based on the waveforms. This rotary encoder has a push
We got our hands on an ESPlant. This was one of the projects at the recent Linux conference. This has: – Temperature sensor – Soil
Here’s a DMD connected to an Arduino with a little laser pointer trip wire. When the laser beam is cut the timer starts. When the
Great news! The Gold Coast TechSpace is hosting another series of Lego workshops during the upcoming school holidays. We will be having two workshops for
Leaps and Bounds proudly presents the TechGC July School Holiday Science Program. See below for more detail and to register. Gold Coast TechSpace presents ROBOTICS with
The Code: Arduino #1: Controls the door. Accepts PIN numbers and RFID keys via HTTP. Checks PIN/RFID keys against MySQL server over HTTP. Code: https://github.com/gctechspace/door_opener_arduino_pin Arduino
A Great Saturday down at the TechSpace. RFID door opener: We finally connected the RFID reader up as an additional means of entry to the
At last Sunday’s Sunday hangout, I used my Xbox Kinect, OpenNI drivers and Reconstructme software (on Windows7) to scan my son Leo in 3D. I
Hey all! I’ve just modified the webcam PHP scripting to detect a dark image. If it detects a dark image it will attempt to turn
What a great day! We will be running another one of these again for sure. Above is a photo of the rubik’s cube solver built
This Wednesdays meet day (11th April) was a huge success! Started out with a Jelly co-working during the day and ended in the Techspace open
A successful day at the TechSpace: The Jelly started at 8:30. Coby gave an impromptu intro to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Coby also fired
This was an awesome trip out to watch lots of rockets launch. Got close to 100 rocket launches. Video of a techspace members rocket: 2012
We had a few XO-1’s lying around the techspace, and were in need of a low powered webcam monitoring solution. Why not install Ubuntu on
Benches and space divider are going in nicely. They look awesome and I cannot wait for it to be completed. More photos on meetup: http://www.meetup.com/gctechspace/photos/4970512/
A successful build day on the reprap and we learnt quite a bit about arduinos. Reprap 3D Printer: All the electronics are finished (good job
We just received two new tables for the space. Stay tuned – lots more on the way!
Sooo… We’re finally in the space, setting up and the kickoff was a blast! Exciting to see so many faces interested! Thanks to all for
We are Gold Coast TechSpace – the MakerSpace, HackerSpace and Education Centre, right here in the heart of Mudgeeraba.
