Hi Craig.
I live in Canberra XD but don’t hold that against me. We have a hacker space here called Make Hack Void, which I haven’t been to yet. I get my duino fix here on this forum for the time being. There are a few hackerspaces in Sydney –
Also, in case you didn’t already think of it why don’t you pm the other guys that have posted on this thread.
Good luck Pedro.