Fun and games with the STM8 on Linux
After my adventures with the STM32 I decided to give the STM8 a go. The STM8 microcontroller is the 8 bit version from the same
After my adventures with the STM32 I decided to give the STM8 a go. The STM8 microcontroller is the 8 bit version from the same
After a few years now of doing Arduino, and everyone telling me that I needed to use ARM I thought I would dive right in
Silicon Beach & Gold Coast TechSpace were proud to host an event with Marcus Schappi on 27th June at the One 50 Public house in
2013-2014 was my second year as President and this was really the year where TechSpace flourished from an idea into something that can make a
During our recent visit to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Cn Glen Tozer and myself had the pleasure of visiting the San Francisco Exploratorium, There’s
A celebration of creativity. We want to see lots of tech, from simple and small to …, from lots of people. Why should the community
Here is a video made by another new member to TechSpace, showing how 3D printing can provide a nice simple solution to a real problem.
Podcasts are brilliant – especially if you have a commute. It turns useless time into a learning opportunity! Many of our members listen to podcasts,
Some new things Gold Coast Techspace have started: Kidhack We’ve been running Minecraft LAN parties at the TechSpace every couple of weeks for sometime now.
Following our success at the Science Fair a few weeks earlier, we are happy to find that we were able to build o what we
This year’s Science Fair was a huge success for Gold Coast TechSPace. We were swamped with visitors from when the very first buses of school
Here are the questions we elicited from attendees at this year’s Science Fair. If you did not fill this in at the Fair, feel free
I think humans have an innate need to do things with their hands. Make things, break things, touch things; to learn by doing; to understand,
Our very own Steve Dalton has been making a splash in the news (bad, bad pun) with his clever Rehydrate bracelet, which was placed second
TechSpace is out of Nind St, Southport and into the Robina Community Centre on Robina Town Centre Dr. Have you been along to have a
Every week the members’ SIG night get more productive. We have completed a few projects by now, and everyone is very busy with more new
You might have seen on the news that GovHack 2013was run nationally over the weekend. The state capitals and also the Gold Coast had teams
It has been over two months since the last post here. There is a good reason for that. It is not because we have died
Our first Makercamp attracted over 30 people over the course of the day. At the start of the day, we began runnning this event somewhat
Our President, Steve Dalton, will be giving a seven minute talk about the TechSpace and related topics at Rabbit and Cocoon, 23 Hillcrest Parade, Miami
Chris Mitchell, a relatively new member to the TechSpace, brought in his latest quadcopter and showed it to us today at our Sunday Open Meet
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
This SIG first met 2nd January 2013. A key focus is to create relatively simple, interesting and fun projects with WOW factor to display at
Gold Coast Coworking is now up and running at our new co-working office at Gold Coast TechSpace in Southport. We have plenty of space with
Following the signing of a 6 month lease for the premises at Shop 4, 19-21 Nind St Southport on 19th October 2012, we packed and
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
These three banks of individually keyed lockers were purchased via eBay with funds secured from our Storage Appeal on Ipledg. These, along with the pallet
After months of testing, running demos, rebuilding parts and printing trinkets, Mork the reprap has finally been put to use to create a useful part
It has been a month of good progress within our Reprap 3D printing project. Within another month we hope to have three Repraps running. Several
Following our successful Ipledg campaign, where over $1500 was raised towards alleviating our storage issue, we have now bought and set up a significant amount
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
We need a team of committed people that will turn up to meetings, take an active role in building and (very importantly) documenting the build
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
We are Gold Coast TechSpace – the MakerSpace, HackerSpace and Education Centre, right here in the heart of Mudgeeraba.