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As a part-time technologist at Do Space I see video games capturing the attention of our patrons every day. I’m not surprised, video games are smart and so are their developers. They always have been. For video gaming development carries a mission: to outsmart a challenger or at least to nurture their intelligence to a point that they can outsmart the game. But what I have witnessed very...

It all started a few months ago when we went back to using paper forms because the vendor that provided digital document services changed their prices. I was assigned to take the paper forms and digitize them so my coworkers can upload them to storage. The tediousness of digitizing those forms drove me to search for an alternative. There are a few open source alternatives but none that were...

What is a server? The definition is: a computer or computer program that manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network. Some may say this isn’t really a server but I disagree. We have decided to build a dedicated machine to host various projects in-house. One great example of a project it will host is the web page we created so that members can sign forms digitally. Here are...

All the hype surrounding the release of Pokémon Go got to me. I thought ‘wouldn’t it be cool if I went back and played some old school Pokémon – like I used to on my Gameboy Color’. The servers for Pokémon Go had been swamped and were down anyway and it just so happened that I had been researching the various uses of the Raspberry Pi tech kit we have here at Do Space. Turns out you can...

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...