Come one, come all, to the 10th celebration to commemorate the founding of Omaha Maker Group! I’m choosing my words carefully here, because Omaha Maker Group was actually founded back in 2010. It was our tradition, from 2011 through 2019, to celebrate that momentous occasion with a party at the end of August. But just …
Over the years I’ve played around with the Raspberry Pi to see what I can get it to do. I have limited programming skills and rely heavily on the opensource community and how-to documents. The most successful projects I’ve done with the Raspberry Pi have revolved around using them as DNS and VPN servers. I …
Would you like to learn about lock picking? Come to our meeting Tuesday July 10th @ 7pm. The meeting will feature a talk from a member of Toool.us (The Open Organization of Lockpickers), Steve Beck. Steve will cover three topics, two of which are a little more hands on-ish, the first will be a basic …
What’s this strange thing? This is the TacitTheremin, a device which helps blind people understand their surroundings using ultrasonic sound ranging. Designed to work in tandem with a cane, this device allows users to get a greater sense of what’s around them at ranges that exceed a cane and in any direction in which its …
TacitTheremin: A spatial awareness tool for the blind. Read More »
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 […]
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 […]
Jason notes that I forgot to post a photo of the other Mendel parts I’ve been building for the MakeryMendel. Â Below are photos of a stainless steel heater tube (the one that I didn’t ruin by welding a drillbit to the inside) as well as the “order form” that Brandon sent me. His drawings aren’t […]
Well, as of today, the Omaha Maker Group officially has a space. Â Keys to the new digs were picked up tonight, and the preparation and move-in begins tomorrow. Â The first official meeting at the new space is on Tuesday, March 8th.
Head on over to the…