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 …
A while back, my wife ask me to make some dog dish risers for our Boston Terriers. I’d just gotten my Craigslist laser cutter running and had recently found a box-drawing extension for Inkscape, so I thought I’d give it a try. I did some research and figured out that for our dogs, I needed …
It’s been two years since we first decided to start using banker’s boxes for storage at OMG. The idea has worked out great, and that original storage shelf is still going strong and sees constant use, but we filled it almost immediately. We had originally planned on making several of those shelving units, but they’re …
This is a short collection of videos that provide a showcase for some of the things that happened at Omaha Maker Group this winter. It shows a sample of the structured (the annual graham cracker house contest) and unstructured (trying to destabilize a quadcopter with compressed air) activities that occurred.
In order to test out the new lids for our kiln, we fired it up again this month and melted some more metal. This time it was aluminum and brass scraps. After burning off the impurities we poured the ingots and prepared molds for an art project. The goal, which you see in the title …
Earlier this year we put together a kiln to melt some aluminum and the lid we made was good enough, but not perfect. It was made of soft refractory bricks, held to a metal plate with fireplace adhesive. The adhesive failed so this time we decided to cast a lid in refractory cement. This video …