Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural 2013 Founders’ Prize: For Opening New Frontiers – Jay Hannah and Dave Knaack For Operational Excellence – Eric Kaplan As stated at the meeting, the categories for these awards are entirely arbitrary and subject to change in future years; Â Also, we estimate that this prize is roughly …
Mark your calendars, the Omaha Maker Group’s 3rd anniversary (birthday?) get-together is Tuesday, August 20th. As usual, doors open by 6pm. There’ll be food and beverages and even some awards. RSVP Here!
I am honored to announce that the website, Instructables.com, has contact Omaha Maker Group and asked us to participate in their inaugural “Instructables Build Nights”! The idea for Build Nights is that Instructables picks a topic and sends supplies/materials to select Makerspaces for their use in creating an event around that topic.  And just to make …
Special Event at OMG – May 28th, 7pm – Paint and Pizza! Read More »
If you haven’t heard via the mailing list and meetings, OMG has moved! Our new address is 8410 K St. #5. Come check it out!
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 …
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 …
Pizza Potluck and Piezoelectric Presentation – December 13th Read More »
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 …
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 […]
The date has been set for the OMG open house and cookout — Saturday, June 25th. Things will run 11:00 am to 4:00pm (or how ever late people feel like staying). Food will be served at noon. RSVP to here