Welcome to our brand new 'MakerSpace' blog for CCB, La Valla and Coolock Libraries. This is where you will find photos, ideas, and links to what is happening in our MakerSpace locations and world wide.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
GAMES & MAKING STUFF!
The libraries now have a selection of games and construction kits that will get you started with creative thinking and just plain old fashion FUN!
MAKE:
MAKE: a great new magazine
This is a new magazine we have subscribed to just for you... available in electronic and hard copy it's packed full of inspirational projects and informative articles.
Click on the link (right of screen) to view digital copy
Now more than ever, it’s the era of DIY humanoid robotics. Humanoids have long been the intricate and expensive domain of well-funded research labs, marching onto stages to demonstrate corporate and institutional engineering prowess. While the desire to build man-mimicking replicas is steeped in history, these advanced machines only started taking actual, functional form in the 1970s; the most famous of these, Honda’s ASIMO, launched just 15 years ago.
Fast-forward to 2015. Rising to the complex challenge of combining mechanics, electronics, and software, robotics hobbyists have made enormous progress in their basements and garages, and we’re now seeing impressive community-driven humanoid bots that come at a fraction of the price of their professional cousins.
In Make: Volume 45 we dive into how makers worldwide are contributing to the advancement of one such project, InMoov, that combines 3D-printable parts, common electronic components, and open-source plans into a showstopping creation that responds to vocal commands with speech and movement.
We also show you how to make an autonomously navigating, self-balancing robot; a tensegrity vibrobot that introduces the concepts of cutting-edge robotics research; and a wonderfully simple “jamming” gripper that eliminates many of the shortcomings of mechanical hands.
This is a new magazine we have subscribed to just for you... available in electronic and hard copy it's packed full of inspirational projects and informative articles.
Click on the link (right of screen) to view digital copy
Fast-forward to 2015. Rising to the complex challenge of combining mechanics, electronics, and software, robotics hobbyists have made enormous progress in their basements and garages, and we’re now seeing impressive community-driven humanoid bots that come at a fraction of the price of their professional cousins.
In Make: Volume 45 we dive into how makers worldwide are contributing to the advancement of one such project, InMoov, that combines 3D-printable parts, common electronic components, and open-source plans into a showstopping creation that responds to vocal commands with speech and movement.
We also show you how to make an autonomously navigating, self-balancing robot; a tensegrity vibrobot that introduces the concepts of cutting-edge robotics research; and a wonderfully simple “jamming” gripper that eliminates many of the shortcomings of mechanical hands.
What is MakerSpace?
What is MakerSpace you ask?
It's a physical location/space (presently in the Libraries) where staff and students can gather to share resources and knowledge, to work on projects, network and construct. Makerspaces provide tools and space to CREATE & INVENT your own fabulous ideas, projects, designs, models... anything creative really! It's an informal, self-directed learning workspace to tinker, try new things and discuss ideas from other staff or students.
How does it work?
It's amazing!!! We will supply items such as lego, mechano, cardboard, paper, pencils, paints, scissors, etc. for you to simply try new things, and just experiment with lots of different equipment and tools ... JUST IMAGINE...WHAT IF...
Do I have input?
Yes... if there is something you would like to see included in our 'MakeSpace' talk to one of the library staff and we can explore the idea.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
LEGO creations so far... (La Valla)
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| Technic Lego - motor cycle (Oct 2015) |
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| Lego creations (Oct 2015) |
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| Lego creations (Oct 2015) |
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| Lego creations (Oct 2015) |
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| Lego creations (Oct 2015) |
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| Lego creations (Oct 2015) |
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| Lego creations (Oct 2015) |
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| Lego creations (Oct 2015) |
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