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How many times have I heard the statement, “My kids bought this computer for me, but I don’t know how to use it”. Solution: Do Space of Omaha, Nebraska. Do Space fills the void many people need to help them learn technology. Do Space was first described to me as a computer learning center. But in my mind, it’s much more than that, it’s a place where your imagination comes alive and...

My boat floated. Then I added a mast. And it sunk.The kids in Junior Makers, on the other hand, were able to balance the weight on their boats just fine. As part of the Summer of Invention, Junior Makers is creating Marvelous Moving Machines during June. Whether a boat or car or plane, our kids take on the challenge of constructing working items out of a variety of household materials....

Recently members of the South Omaha Learning Community attended a Littles Lab Field Trip. The Littles Lab Field Trip includes a brief tour of Do Space (including the 3D lab) and a shortened version of our regular Littles Lab program just for the group. In this case, the Learning Community facilitators wanted to provide their group with an opportunity to share an experience with family members,...

When walking around Do Space I am sure you have had the opportunity to run into some of our amazing volunteers! One of the ways we engage our volunteers is our bi-monthly volunteer tech playtimes. Whoever said adults don’t want to play as well?!? This is a time that volunteers get the chance to mingle, have fun, and learn with people they might not usually volunteer alongside. Do Space...

Do Space sent three representatives to attend the Greater Omaha Young Professionals YP Summit on March 3rd. One of our attendees, Community Technologist Dale Kipple, shared a little about the experience and what he learned at the event.  While at the Young Professionals Summit in Omaha I investigated the future of our city. I found that the conversation was almost wholly centered around...

Here at Do Space we’ve launched our Raspberry Pi membership kiosk. This was such a fun project we wanted to share with you how to make one of your own. First in this tutorial we will be using a Raspberry Pi B2 with Raspbian Linux installed. This tutorial will not be going into how to use Linux and assumes that you have a basic understanding of how to use Raspbian. This tutorial is intended to...

The Lightbot and Lightbot Jr. apps are mobile device and online games for preschoolers recently featured during Hour of Code (available for IOS and Android). Like similar apps designed to teach children how to code, Lightbot introduces kids to critical thinking skills through gamification. The Lightbot lives in a world of tiles and when he lands on a blue tile he needs to light it up. Kids learn...

She turned, blowing a kiss to me as she left the room. And so ended the first Senior Cyber Society meeting. We had just finished figuring out how to find, save, and send pictures on her iPad. Her granddaughter regularly sent fun messages with pictures and she wanted to know how to reply with the similar images. In just a short time, we were able to open a new way of communicating across...

Hello Omaha! As you may know, Do Space - this one of kind community tech space built just for Omaha - launched on November 7th. Since then, we've seen over 15,000 visitors, and over 800 people have attended Do Space programs and events. Our Grand Opening weekend alone, we saw over 3,700 people visiting the space to check out this unique project! In the short time we've been open, we've seen...

We have two great 3D printers; the UPrint SE Plus and the Dimension sst 1200es. With these you can print almost anything you can think of but there are some limitations you should know before you begin. The only material available for these printers is ABS plastic. This plastic is hard and pretty ridged which is why it’s used to make amazing things like Legos. If you want to make something...