Omaha Maker Group

OMG 10th Founding Day Celebration

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 […]

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Nerf Shooter Competition Action Caught on Video

The family of Nerf guns assembled for action

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

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Maker Faire Kansas City 2018

Once again, members of the Omaha Maker Group participated in the Kansas City Maker Faire. Due to a general lack of interest, we forwent an “official” OMG booth entirely this year, focusing instead on the Power Racing Series. Garrick and the Tesla coil crew had quite the show, though, and even got a photo of

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RedBull Creation 2012 Entry

RedBull Creation challenge entry. It’s a brain-wave game. The players stand on opposite sides with wireless headsets that measure brain waves. One of them presses the big red button on the back, and then as they focus the power of their minds, the arm responds to their brain wave readings, and moves back and forth

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