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Today was a pretty full, if short, day at the Makery; It started around noon, when the power was out as we arrived; It turned out to be a circuit breaker that must’ve tripped overnight somehow. Once power was restored, work continued on both the robotic arm controls and the partition wall that now divides …
Following last night’s meeting, a number of Panasonic Industrial robotic arms were dropped off at the Makery. These arms were used in some sort of assembly operation, and seem to have been manufactured (at least the motors) in the early 80s. A number of people hung around pretty late messing around with them, and had …
The next regular meeting will be at the space on Tuesday, April 5th at 7pm. We’ve got two presentations: Brandon will be showing his progress on the remote controlled Tricopter he’s been working on (as seen on this site); If you’re unfamiliar with exactly what a Tricopter is, it’s like a quadcopter with just 3 …
Well, nobody thought to take any pictures of the construction, so we only have a couple phone pics of the finished bench and tables. I think they came out pretty well. Also, David supervising.
Got a few pics of the Space as it is currently. There is a nice bench with some tools mounted to it, and a couple nice tables.
The Space (aka The Makery) is really starting to come together. A build day has been scheduled for this Saturday (March 26th, 9:37am) to see about some shelves and tables. Â Full details on that are the mailing list. In other news, our local network is operational; Â We have Wireless-G, network printing and a functional DHCP/DNS …