Giant Bristlebot Build Day 2

Prototype Build Day 2:

Here we are on Day 2 of our prototype build of a giant bristlebot for the A2 mini maker faire. Now that we have proved our proof of concept with the prototype we will move towards building our final version. We will continue our build this Saturday August 15th @ 10:00 a.m to 4:00 pm in Swit’s garage @ 515 Loloyd Ave. Royal Oak Mi 48073. If you would like to join us and help out or if you would just like to come by and meet everyone at i3 Detroit you are more than welcome.

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Hackerspaces & Nasa article from opennasa.com

Rolando Quintanilla from opennasa.com wrote a great article about how hackerspaces could help Nasa.

“In order for space exploration to prosper and become cost-effective robotic technology will need to be created and adapted to develop infrastructure that is necessary for human space exploration and industrial exploration.  Concepts like those behind the RepRap, will be required to be further developed so that it is possible to automatically manufacture goods as needed in space.”

To read the full story please visit opennasa.com!

Giant Bristlebot Build Day 1

So we have finally started building our giant bristlebot for the A2 Mini Maker Faire this past Saturday and thought we would share some photos with all of you. As a reminder we will be having our weekly meeting tonight at 7:00 P.M and then we will continue to work on our Giant bristlebot build if you would like to join us.

Weekly Meeting: August 11th 2009 @ 7:00 P.M

Just a Reminder that we will be holding our regular group meeting Tuesday August 11th @ 7:00 P.M. We will not be meeting at the coffee Beanery this week. We will be holding our meeting this week in Matt’s Garage. We will be having a short business meeting this week then we will continue our build of the Giant Bristlebot for the A2 Mini Maker Faire.Our meeting is open to anyone that would like to come. If you are interested in finding out more about our group and would like to be apart of it please join us!

Address:
515 Lloyd Ave. Royal Oak MI 48073 (map)

A2 Mini Maker Faire Giant Bristelbot Build Get Together Saturday August 8th

We will be getting together Saturday August 8th 2009 at 11:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m to work on building our giant bristlebot for the A2 mini maker faire. This build event is open to all that would like to come and spend some time with the i3 Detroit team. If you have been interested in what we are about and would like to meet the i3 Detroit team come spend the day with us. We will be working in Swits garage which is located at the address below. We look forward  to seeing you all!

Address:
515 Lloyd Ave. Royal Oak MI 48073 (map)