Makerspace
I went to the local Eugene Makerspace shop tonight for 6:00pm friday open night. There were about 11 there including women and children. Tuesday night at 6pm is also an open access night. For full 24/7 shop access there is a $25 monthly fee. Four of us there were visitors checking out the environment, expertise and tools available. It is a small but nice work space to build small wood, electronics and other projects. Many of the tools available were contributed and even rebuilt to make usable. They have woodworking tools: Small table saw, routers, sanders, etc.) Hand tools: Wrenches and the like are available. They also have a laser printer that was recently rebuilt by members. Two older 3d plastic printers are also being repaired. Available also is a vacuum former and vinyl printer. As can be seen here, the shop is offered for a wide variety of type of projects.
Our Car
We have built our 4wd car and are now working on learning to program it using Python on the Rpi2 and Skript to control the Arduino Compatible Mega 2560 R3 board.
So for all we have running is an Arduino Skript I found on the internet to make the motors run through a test routine. I need to learn now to control the Arduino board using the Rpi2. I will be experimenting with code I find on the internet and trying to adapt it to our particular hardware.
