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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,...

Eugene Public Library Event

The Eugene Public Library hosts events for young kids on Sunday afternoons.  A few months back, Eugene Maker Space was invited to host one of these events at EPL.  We accepted the offer and on February 3, 2013, six members from EMS went to the library to run the event....

Make-O-Rama

Eugene Maker Space Invites You to Visit Make-O-Rama: “Tooling Up” Our Semi-Annual Show & Tell/Open House February 23, 2013 11:00 to 4:00 687 McKinley Street, Suite #2 www.eugenemakerspace.com for more information Making awesome tools to make awesome stuff! Come see what we’re building now: Laser Cutters! Vacuum Tables! 3D Printers!...