Shop Talk! Blog

Family Hack Day a Success!

Eugene Maker Space held our very first Family Hack Day on June 1, 2013.  We had a decent sized group of kids and families show up to get some work done on their own projects.  And boy did work get done.  We also had several EMS members show up to...

Family Hack Day on June 1st

Eugene Maker Space will be hosting our very first family hack day this Saturday, June 1 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM.  Do you have children who are creative, inventive, or just like to make things?  Do your kids have a project they want to work on but they need a space...

Now with More Filaments!

Last night, Austin and Bob built a filament holder for our 3D printing station. It holds four spools of filament at the ready, and it is expandable to six spools. Rick’s MakerBot is directly under the spools. Mark’s PrintrBot is offscreen to the right. Many thanks to Rick and Mark...

Hak5 Visiting CodeChops and EMS

Darren Kitchen from Hak5 is currently on his Hack Across America tour.  “What is Hak5?” you ask.  Hak5 is an internet show that deals with all things hacking.  Darren will be stopping by CodeChops this Friday night to do a talk about “Alternative Internets for the Coming Zombie Apocalypse.”    The...

The Science Factory and EMS at the Mythbusters show!

The Mythbusters came to the Matthew Knight Arena last Friday March 15, 2013. The Science Factory had a table to promote themselves as well as the upcoming Eugene Mini Makerfaire (June 15, 2013). I was invited to help them out and was able to bring a few EMS fliers to...

Open Hack Night starts early tonight.

Tonight we’re starting Open Hack Night a little early. Doors will open at 5:00 instead of 6:00. Open Hack Night is every Tuesday and Friday night. Our address is 687 McKinley, Suite 2, Eugene, Oregon.

Marie’s Bday Pinata – Office Space Printer Replica

For Marie’s birthday we made a custom pinata that closely resembled the printer from Office Space that got beatdown, if you aren’t familiar with Office Space or need a reminder of the printer beatdown

Make-O-Rama Timelapse Footage

The first EMS Make-O-Rama was held last Saturday, Feb 23 from 11AM to 4PM.  We had a good turn out.  We had a good portion of our membership turn up to help out either by showing off projects or talking with visitors.  We had a ton of snacks, drinks, pizza,...