Member Project: Custom Rubber Stamp
It turns out, with the right settings, and some EVA Craft Foam, you can make your own custom rubber stamps, using a laser engraver!
Category: Blog
Member Project: Maker-Cades!
A history of the Makercade project, and how it turned from a single unit, personal project, to a massive organizational effort to make a bunch of miniature arcade emulators! So many thanks should be handed, to Ben, Jeffrey, Bruce, and everyone else who had a hand in getting these together...
Member Project: Soldering Station II
Baby steps Last night at the Makerspace, some small steps were made forward on my project. I spent far too long trying to assemble the new ‘third hand’ for soldering. Ben did an A-MAY-ZING job printing out the Thingiverse parts, and even got some screws and wingnuts to put it...
Member Project: Soldering Station
The first thing we make at the Makerspace… “do.” So a few issues came up while working on that volume extension cable. Basically, our entire ‘working on electronics’ area has been neglected for about as long as I’ve been a member. No one’s put any love or care into the...
Member Project: Raspberry PI Arcade
I’ve been gathering the various parts needed to create a Raspberry Pi 3 powered arcade machine. Specifically a smaller ‘bar-top’ style arcade cabinet. Beginning with a ‘Liquid Video’ brand LCD monitor, which was a free score through some donated time and effort at the shop (We had a lot of...
EMS Nearspace Balloon Lost – Reward Offered
Last Sunday, October 9th 2016, our team released a small weather balloon from Chemult, Oregon. Unfortunately our tracking system failed at 30,000 feet and we were unable to recover our capsule. The projected flight path predicts that the capsule would have landed somewhere near Christmas Valley, Oregon. We are hoping...
EMS Nearspace Balloon a Success!
Over the last several months, a group of EMS members have been working on a nearspace balloon. What is a nearspace balloon? You can think of it as a sort of poor man’s satellite. Of course it would be fun and geeky to design our own satellite, but that would...
Shop Cleanup Day
It’s been a long time since we had a shop cleanup day, and we needed it pretty badly. We had around eight people show up today to help clean, organize, and otherwise improve EMS. While there is still more that can be done, we made a lot of great...
