One of the other projects enhanced by the Variac is the vacuformer. Â It consists of two parts: a box with a heating element that melts plastic (background) and a perforated box which sucks the softened plastic down over a heat-resistant form (foreground). Â Prior to the Variac, we’d had problems damaging the plastic sheet, because it […]
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The Makery’s recent acquisition of a Variac has rekindled interest in a few projects that had been on hold. Â One of those projects was the Acrylic Bender that James had been working on. At it’s core, the bender is just a halogen bulb between two aluminum tubes full of circulating water. The idea is to
At next Tuesday’s meeting (December 13th), we’ll be doing a pizza/potluck dinner. The idea is that everyone throw in a few bucks for pizza and bring whatever else they’d like to share. Food is planned for 6:30, but it’s a pretty casual sort of thing. Â If you’re interested, RSVP here. The presentation for the meeting
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Last night, the Makery hosted a Nerf Gun Mod contest, previously announced here. Â We had 5 total entrants, after a few people had things come up at the last minute, and about twice that many spectators. Appearance Only Brandon and Eric made an attempt in this category; Â Brandon did a functional “pseudo-steampunk” mod (with an
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At the Makery lately, Brandon and I [with some help] have been working on a CNC Hot-wire Foam cutter quite a bit like this one. Ours is going to be a bit larger, capable of slicing up a 2×4 foot piece of foam (actually, the X is more like 5 feet than 4). For our […]
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Ever since I visited Noisebridge in San Fransisco back in November of 2010, I had burned into my head how amazing it was, and how great it’d be when we finally had a space of our own in Omaha. What I didn’t see in my brief visit was all the work that someone’s doing behind […]
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Tonight, I finally got around to finishing up the Handlebar Camera Mount project. The mount consists of a hunk of printed PLA, sawed in half, and bolted back together around the handlebars. At the moment, I have a piece of rubber tape wrapped around the bar, under the mount, to keep it from slipping, but […]
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Tuesday marked the 1 year anniversary of the Omaha Maker Group, known internally as Founding Day. It signifies the first [large] meeting of Makers at Upstream Brewery where the Omaha Maker Group name was chosen. It wasn’t until later that we were legally organized, but that’s not the point. In honor of the somewhat momentous […]
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Tonight, I was on assignment for Brandon and the Makery Mendel again, this time drilling some really really tiny holes. These acorn nuts will be used as print heads to extrude the molten plastic on the almost-done Makery Mendel 3D printer. I started the process by holding the piece of allthread (Which has a shallow […]
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