The inaugural SW Makers meeting was held in Busselton on the 24th of February at the Busselton Library.  It was a short two hour demo/intro day to some of the things we get up too and was attended by over 30 people.

The next meeting will start with a public demo at 11:00 on the 25th of March and once the library closes to the general library public at 12:00, we will then start work n some personal projects and maybe offering some help and mentoring for Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects.  There will be more info on this around a week before hand via the groups mailing list.  If your not already on the mailing list, you can join by filling in the form on the websites contact page

Stephen brought along his 'The Box Box' 3D printer:

Along with a colourful bunch of previously printed parts:

Euan brought along a prototype of an Arduino Mega based robot that he is working on:

Phillip brought along his Felix 3D printer and had it printing out SW Maker medallions:

Stephen also brought along his CNC machine and some examples of what it can do:

Diane brought along and example of some Tech Fashion.  This generated a lot of discussion about where it's all heading:

We haven't seen the DoBot robotic arm out in public for a while:

Esther had her line following Makeblock robot out and running on the floor:

Paul brought along some electronics, a Raspberry Pi based timelapse infra-red photography rig, and a few other parts:

Our first meeting of the year started with our biggest turn out so far.  This was our first meeting at the Eaton Library and it worked out well.  It was exciting to hear of new peoples projects that they have been working.

Dylan picked up a Oculus VR headset over the Christmas break and brought it along for people to explore:

Phillip brought along his 3D Felix printer and printed out a purple bird feeder part:

Stephen brought along a bunch of electronics, 3D scanner, CNC cutter and 3D printer:

Too big to bring along, So Rob showed off some videos of a home built laser cutter, along with some intricate test cuts in various materials:

Kade brought along his Raspberry Pi, that now includes the official RPi 7" Display.  He was experimenting with the Astro Pi add on hat:

Paul from West Coast Makers came down from Perth with his hybrid rocket, that includes a data logger:

Another Paul brought along an Arduino based SMD Toaster oven reflow controller:

A close up of some of the test PCB's that have been processed on a laser cutter, and an example reflow LED board:

My apologies to the other people who brought projects along:  paper art, fabric art and the Arduino robot.  It was a busy morning and I didn't get to photograph everything.

The generous funding from the Science Council over the past couple of years has allowed us to cover the cost of our meeting venue (Milligan House), however at the end at the of 2016 this funding ended, so we've since had to find an alternative venue for the new year.   

Thanks to the generosity of the Shire of Dardanup we now have a place to hold our meetings at no cost.  

The venue of each meeting will now be held at the following location:

Eaton Library (Eaton Community College) 
20 Recreation Drive,
Eaton 6232.

For the short term the hours of our meetings will coincide with library Saturday opening hours, which is from 9:00AM - 1:00PM, however this will more than likely change back to afternoons down the track depending on feed back from members so for the short term we will see how it goes in the morning.