On February 25th, eight makers participated in the Sumo Battle that we’ve been preparing for since January. It was a raucous evening of smashing plastic and cheering crowds. Afterward we took apart a few cars to see how they worked – near the end of the video Ben even explains how he combined the front …
As mentioned in the previous Nerf post, once a year we hold a competition that displays our design, engineering and marksmanship skills. A specific model of Nerf shooter is selected and a short list of guidelines is drawn up, then makers are invited to modify their toy as inventively as possible. In this video you …
We wanted to create some aluminum snowflakes to hang on our holiday trees. First we created the positive out of plywood, then pressed it into Petrobond (which is a product name for oil sand), and then fired up the furnace, melted the aluminum, and poured it into the mold. It did make impressions of snowflakes …
On September 21 we brought our creations to Lincoln’s maker faire and spent the day chatting with fellow makers and faire attendees. Our booth was outside on the grass at Trago Park along with a ring of about twelve other groups. The weather was perfect, there was always something interesting happening, and there was a …
During our Founding Day Celebration, some of the attendees decided to see what would happen when something combustible is tossed over a flame.
On August 27 2019, we at Omaha Maker Group interrupted our usual meeting schedule to hold our annual birthday party. We had a potluck dinner, then ate cake and chatted until it was time to start events. We had an aluminum melting demonstration, the we took turns popping the air cannon. After it got dark …
Omaha Maker Group was invited to set up a booth at the Union Pacific Railroad Museum’s “First Friday Family Night” earlier this month. Because the theme this month was “STEAM UP”, we decided to create a demonstration of the Hero Engine which is a two thousand-year-old steam engine design. We also tried to replicate a …
Two weeks ago we took our two cars, The Battle Bus and the Locomotive, the Power Racing Series at the Kansas City Maker Faire. Saturday was bright and sunny, Sunday was soggy. The previous video covered the sunny part and this one shows highlights of the wet part.
Last weekend Kansas City Union Station held a Maker Faire and members of Omaha Maker Group attended. If you’ve been at the Tuesday Night meetings for the past few months you may have noticed that we’ve been modifying and rebuilding our little electric cars in preparation for this weekend. We brought them down to join …
Last weekend, June 22 and 23, several members of Omaha Maker Group traveled to Kansas City to participate in the Power Racing Series at the KC Maker Faire. For details on this huge event, just visit the website https://kansascity.makerfaire.com/. The Power Racing Series is a collection of races in which Makers drive their tiny homemade …