Eugene Makerspace • 687 McKinley Street #1 • Eugene OR 97402
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EMS received a generous donation at the end of 2014. The board decided we should spend that money on some new tools for our members. After a discussion in the EMS Discuss mailing list, we opted to spend some money on two things. CNC milling machine Laser cutter Those things...
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