It’s only the first week in February and the space has been open every day this month.
We’ve had a ton of new members join with some really cool projects:
Delta Printer
We had our first delta printer show up and complete its first print. The way the printer begins a print is quite shocking. So shocking I didn’t get a video of it because I thought something went wrong and the pulleys snapped, but we did get a video of how it looks mid way through a print.
Saltwater Etching
“Etching” doesn’t really cover the idea of “completely dissolving” parts of a metal piece you don’t want, but it’s what everyone else who has done it calls it. Of course this being a hacker space things are done a bit differently here, instead of a 9 volt battery we used a 12 amp, 36 volt power supply, an Arduino controlled windscreen wiper motor keeps everything spinning around, a custom designed H bridge that can handle a few hundred watts and a 20 liter bath:
Smaller Projects
A robot that decided to rebel against its human masters.
And lastly getting the oscilloscopes we have calibrated and working. Before long we’ll be able to play Quake on the newly donated ones.