Shop Talk! Blog

Sponsor Highlight: ELEGOO

The Eugene Makerspace is excited to announce our recent partnership with ELEGOO, manufacturer of excellent, consumer grade 3D Printers, STEM kits, robots, and more! https://www.elegoo.com Our sponsorship arrangement with ELEGOO will allow us to bring a brand new, modern, SLA “resin” printer to our members and community! SLA printers offer...

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!

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...

Predicted Flight Path

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...