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People came from all over Stamford for the Fix-It Night held earlier this week. Some of the items dropped off were a CD player, an espresso machine, a sewing machine and some hair dryers. Thanks to everyone for their participation. All of these require extra parts or more work. We will be in contact with …

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The snowstorm really wiped us out! Let’s try this again.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/Rippowam-Labs-makes-new-space-in-Stamford-6036456.php

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It was a great night!!!

Thanks to Mike Norris for writing some kind words about our makerspace.  He’s one hell of a guy and we hope to see him again soon! http://www.diybiking.com/

We had one of our biggest turnouts ever at the Intro to WordPress class on Saturday – 30 people! For those who didn’t achieve their goals, we are opening up the Makerspace this coming Saturday at 10 am.

One of the space’s sewing machines was broken and it took no time for Bob to find the problem.

The mission of our latest set of teen robot classes at the Ferguson Library was to create a robot that could think for itself. We attached distance sensors to our bots and wrote code that told the robot to avoid collisions. Here’s a video of our start pupil’s bot in action.  http://youtu.be/kNuS77N7XCI Stay tuned … …

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Check out our upcoming series of Intro-to-Coding classes. We’ll be offering classes in Python, C++, HTML/CSS, WordPress, Android as well as PHP and MySQL, The idea of these classes is to provide a learning opportunity for those who’ve never learned – or those who never learned a particular language. We will be encouraging study groups …

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