Eugene Makerspace • 687 McKinley Street #1 • Eugene OR 97402
For anyone interested who missed the announcement, the Raspberry Pi foundation has announced their new ‘Compute Module’. It’s a full Raspberry Pi in a formfactor very similar to a laptop memory card. All of the interfaces and power and everything is access via pins and it’s designed for people wanting...
On March 2, 2014 Eugene Maker Space held a Kickstarter Q&A panel. Four panelists had successfully funded Kickstarter projects and one panelist ultimately decided Kickstarter was not the right solution. Watch the video to learn more about their experiences with Kickstarter! I edited this video together for EMS using their...
I needed to quickly fabricate a device for letting me use my ladder sideways on the stairs. I wrote it up on one of my sites here if anyone is interested: For anyone in a hurry, here’s a pair of pics showing this simple method for solving this problem: ...
You’ve probably heard of Kickstarter, the world’s most popular platform for crowdfunding projects. EMS member, Mark Danburg-Wyld, first heard of it a couple of years ago, but didn’t back a campaign until a few months back. Here’s what Mark had to say about his experience: “It was so easy – when...
On February 1, 2014, I (Rick) got together with another EMS member (Ellery) to build a modular Olympic Lifting Platform. The goal was to build a platform that could fit in our garage. The standard 8′ x 8′ size would be much too large, so we cut ours in half....
Always awesome to link to fellow EMS members and their stories and use of the EugeneMakerSpace commons. Ben Hallert fellow EMS member and friend ( https://www.facebook.com/ben.hallert) posted this story to his Facebook feed a few days ago and I think it’s worth sharing it’s best use case story this year value...
On the calendar for Saturday Jan 18th is the Space Business Planning Committee meeting from 1-3pm. We have a counter offer from the site owner to discuss and hear back from planning committee members on income updates. Attend and be heard! Help EMS move to a new location!
The Doodle votes are in and THIS Saturday (Jan 4th 2014) is the first meeting of the Business Planning Committee. This group of people will ensure that EMS has the financial wherewithal to move into a bigger and more expensive place. We will do this by crafting a business plan...
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