Thursday 30 April 2015

Member Badge Contest – Voting Open!

 

As announced in January, we had a Badge Contest that ran through April 21.  We had some great entries this year from our members.

We had nine members show off their awesome badges at the meeting: Karen, Bill**2, Keith, Tom K., Kathy, Jon, Tom G., Brant & Carl

Now it’s the opportunity for everyone to vote and determine which badges they like the best!  Please view the badges and descriptions below, then click on the “VOTE HERE” link and select your favorite.

Several of the members submitted descriptions – please see them below.


Bill**2

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Badges? Badges! How I made my stinking badges.

Badges 1 & 2 were started by a visit to the Metal Hack Rack™ which yielded a fine scrap of brushed stainless steel large enough and thick enough for my needs. Three blanks were cut out, with two being milled to size and slotted on the Gorton mill. The corners of the twin blanks were then belt sanded round and then all edges were deburred by hand filing.

Badge 1 (code name: “Ooh Shiny”) was then polished to a medium shine using several of the buffing wheels. Badge 2 (code named “It’s a Blast”) was sand blasted to a matte finish. Positive and negative designs were created and files were prepared by someone with talent (Thank you Shane). After taking Lexie’s class on Silhouette Studio and the vinyl cutter (Thank you Lexie), I was able to make the vinyl stencils I needed.

Badge 1 received what I call the positive image where everything but the image was covered; likewise Badge 2 received the negative image. The badges were (separately) etched in a hot salt water bath, the badges were anodes and the third badge blank was a non-sacrificial cathode. 5-6 amps were applied for about 1.5 hours with a couple of salt water changes during the etch.

Both badges were cleaned and the edges sanded smooth. Badge 1 was set aside as done, Badge 2 was heated with a torch to add darker temper colors for contrast and the main smooth surface brushed with a brass brush for additional contrast.

As an afterthought, the letters from one of the vinyl stencils were applied to a green anodized dog tag and the one side of the tag sandblasted to create a Thumb drive badge in case I leave the drive anywhere in the space.

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Brant H.

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Carl

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Jon H.

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Behold all the might and glory brought to bear from the year 1989 in all it’s 8-bit splender!
My name badge is crafted from an original Nintendo Gameboy sporting one of the very first consumer digital cameras to become available, The Nintendo Gameboy Camera, first available in 1998. I utilized the 256×224 (down scaled to half resolution on the unit with anti-aliasing), black & white digital image using the 4-color palette of the Game Boy system to craft the image showing my name and the Milwaukee Makerspace Logo. I also laser cut a new Gameboy screen bezel of clear acrylic over black acrylic now showing the words, “MILWAUKEE” and “MAKERSPACE” etched between the layers of the bezel with the original LED still shining through. To aid in my proper identification in the case of my badge being lost or stolen, I have incorporated my photo printed from an original Gameboy printer and afixed to the case front. A leather strap was locally sourced and then carefully cut with the type of scissors you should not run with to allow the badge clips attachement. It is most fortunate that the badge clip is resilient enough to support the weight of the Gameboy unit, though I am required to wear a shirt of stout enough fabric to prevent tearing or personal injury while wearing it.

 

 

 

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Karen P.

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Kathy H.

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I started out with a plain fluorescent pink tag. I used acrylic paint, decorative papers and trim, glitter, ribbon, a hole punch and a printer to decorate the tag. All of these items can be found in the craft lab except for the hole punch. By covering the original hole and punching two new holes I was able to attach the ribbon for hanging from the badge holder. The technique I used for adding my name was to run the back sheet from a sheet of printable labels through the printer and printing on the slick side where the labels once were. Using clear packing tape I lifted off the ink for my name and laid it over my badge, pressing it down to be sure it adhered firmly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Keith M.

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This badge is solid copper, with a design chemical etch. The copper board was polished to remove oxidation, then spray-painted with primer as a chemical etch resist. The badge design was created in InkScape, and imported into Corel Draw to drive the 50 watt CNC laser cutter. The laser was used to remove the spray paint from the copper board. Two passes at 40%/40% speed were used to remove all traces of the primer in areas to be etched, each pass took 21 minutes.

After the board was prepared, it was submersed in a solution of two parts hydrogen peroxide, one part muriatic acid for approximately 10 minutes, with agitation. Mineral spirits where then applied to remove the remaining etch resist, and the entire board painted with black enamel paint. A gentle second application of mineral sprits removed the black paint from the surface of the board, leaving it in the etched areas.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tom G.

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Tom K.

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This is my badge I’m entering for the competition :-)
it is a combination of Swiss Army pocketknife, USB thumb drive, lockpicks.
Contents:
1-USB thumb drive,LED light shows through maker space logo on other side.
2-can opener
3-bottle opener ,Straight edge screwdriver
4-Scissors
5-tension bar
6-two double ended lockpicks rakes
7-File
8-Phillips screwdriver
9-Corkscrew
10-Attachment ring

 

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Game of Drones Competitors Get Free Maker Faire Tickets!

MFBAdronesATTENTION ALL DRONE PILOTS! Have you dreamed of drone combat? Would you like to see how your drone stacks up against the competition in a drone-to-drone fight? Now is your chance to join Game of Drones with Aerial Sports League’s Combat Games for this year’s 10th annual Maker Faire! Free admission, […]

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Tips and Tricks: Using Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2

Dan Rosenstein designed and built a bunch of Raspberry Pi robots running Windows 10 IoT CoreMicrosoft has officially opened access Windows 10 support for the Raspberry Pi 2 as of last night — coming through on their February announcement that they’d be offering the OS for the diminutive computer. With the installed release, you can now build and deploy apps from a Windows 10 PC running Visual […]

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Do You Really Own Your 3D Printer?

The DRM Chip From A Stratasys Print CartridgeOur good friend Michael Weinberg haw written us to let us all know about one of the current fights to keep 3D printing free and open. Read below and add your voice to the current issue. The Time is Now to Help to Unlock 3D Printers The Copyright Office needs […]

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Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder!

frictionWeldingSeveral years ago, Make: contributor Matt Griffin and I were hanging out and he started enthusiastically telling me about a technique for friction welding plastic that he’d just discovered. He had learned about it in a video from the awesome Fran Blanche (she of Frantone guitar pedals fame). I still […]

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Fab Academy Students Challenged to Make Something BIG

claudia_cncThe Fab Academy program is a distributed educational model providing advanced digital fabrication instruction for students through a unique, hands-on curriculum and access to technological tools and resources. In this series, Erin, aka RobotGrrl is going to be sharing her experiences with the program as she progresses through the courses. […]

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This R/C Plane Built from a Weed Whacker Actually Flies

rcplaneIn the dark of night, one of the builders at UsaRCJets took the engine from a dead weed eater, parts from an old R/C banana boat plane, a 1′×2′ board and cobbled them together into this monstrous wacky hack. With no plans and only some beers to guide him, Billy […]

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Should You Back A Kickstarter If The Team’s Last Project Failed?

FlexPVA group of HAXLR8R graduates say that their modular electric vehicle development kit, FlexPV, will be able to turn almost anything into a motor vehicle. The Kickstarter campaign for FlexPV is replete with crisp graphics and slickly produced videos that show users clamping motor, battery, and control modules to a scooter, a bicycle, and even a […]

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I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened.

wedgeLast week, Make:‘s Matt Stultz wrote about the new collaboration between MakerBot’s design community, Thingiverse, and the Amsterdam-based 3D Hubs. Eventually, the collaboration could bring together Thingiverse’s 700,000 designs with 3D Hubs’ 15,000 printer locations — though for now, the feature is available only for parts developed by a handful of pre-selected designers. In March, I used 3D Hubs to print […]

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New Project: Make a Combination Blackboard/Bulletin Board

M36 TIN bulletin chalk boardMake a simple blackboard/bulletin board that cleverly uses a yardstick to divide the two. It's quick, easy, and makes a great gift too! Another great project from Make: contributor and toy inventor Bob Knetzger.

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Musings on “The Artist’s Library” by Nor Hall

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Nor Hall muses on the library as an incubator, with a nod to the Library as Incubator Project and The Artist’s Library: A Field Guide, by Laura Damon-Moore and Erinn Batykefer.

Hall is a Minneapolis-based psychotherapist, author, and playwright. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Opus Archives & Research Center in Santa Barbara, CA. She will return to Opus on November 5th at 7pm for an artist’s talk and visual presentation inspired by her time in residency.

Jay D. Peterson, coordinator for the Coffee House Press in the Stacks residency program, sent us this quote from the Opus Archives & Research Center curator:
This is what happens when you come into the archives: spinning fantasies of golden treasure and fantastic flights of imagination, you wander through the stacks, through the boxes and pages within, longing for a reflection of your own ideas, an authoritative buttressing of your notions, you are lost, you get lost, not sure where to go but have a glorious idea about where you are going for just around the next box is going to be that very passage that will have everything fall into place in your project, you can feel it…you are the spirit, the Puer impulse that the Senex archives need so to not harden, to not dry out, to stay in touch with life.
—  Safron Rossi, Curator of Collections at Opus Archives & Research Center, Pacifica Institute;  “From Attic To Basement and In Between,”published in Quadrant: The Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation, Volume XXXXII:2 Summer 2012

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Wednesday 29 April 2015

Microsoft and Arduino Announce Hardware-Support Collaboration

windowsarduinoMicrosoft seems to be getting more and more Maker friendly, and today their courtship moves further forward with the surprise announcement of two new collaborations with microcontroller makers Arduino. Both projects, announced at the Microsoft developer conference Build, involve Windows 10, and both usher in a new level of Microsoft engagement […]

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Kickstarter update – 80%+ funded!

Greetings makers!

Just shy of two weeks into our 2015 Kickstarter campaign, we are happy to announce passing 80% toward our goal (86.4% to be exact)! Thanks to everyone who has backed the campaign and shared the link with friends.

Since the campaign is getting very close to passing the $20,000 goal, now’s the time to start teasing our stretch goals!

Stretch Goal #1

One of the big requests at Nova Labs is welding equipment; our new 10,500 square foot facility has a great workshop just waiting for this new capability. Raising an additional $7,000 will allow Nova Labs to acquire the following:

  • Welding table
  • TIG and MIG Welders
  • Safety equipment (gloves, helmets, and shields)
  • Ventilation and welding curtains

There are many Nova Labs members that are ready to teach welding classes, which should allow more people in the community to learn new skills for their projects.

Back us now on Kickstarter, and stay tuned for stretch goal #2!

Kickstarter update – 80%+ funded!

NL member Srijay setup this Raspberry Pi to display our Kickstarter status – he even made it open source and posted the code on GitHub!



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Artist Creates Breathtaking 3D Printed Lamps

New York artist and designer, Robert Debbane, creates stunning lamps using 3D printing technology. Applying the same technique as variable-depth pumpkin carving, where you don’t cut all the way through and you vary how much skin and meat you remove to let more or less light through, Debbane prints out […]

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Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!

Please go ahead and create your village!

(picture from psi36)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from cosmoflash)

What do we want you to do?

First of all, we want you to feel good and cozy in your temporary home at Camp2015.

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from nuridao)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from hagengraf)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from simonox)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from zomb)

We’d love to see if your village would also provide space for others to join in, e.g. like those guys did last time:

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from cosmoflash)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from vrde)

And we are super curious to see your installations and constructions!

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from maxraschke)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from geektechnique)

Bring ALL THE lamps!

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from pixelmurder)

Be assured, we will have our lamps in place, too:

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from pixelmurder)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from melle)

Don’t forget to have a Plan B for all possible situations, for everything…

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from maxraschke)

As usual the group of volunteers organizing the camp….

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from geektechnique and cosmoflash)

… will organize some connectivity and power to your tent, too. Be part!

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from powl)

Cause its not only about the Art’n’beauty… it’s also about you bringing your gear and playing around with it on site…

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(all three pictures from psi36)

…organizing workshops for sharing and developing together:

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from geektechnique)

But, that also also not only what camp is about: If you want to bring music, do let us know when you fill up the village form.

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But don’t worry, there will be a good place for music, too. Remember the Trockendock?

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from pixelmurder)

BTW: This time we will have a lake again!

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from hagengraf)

Still you can bring your own pools, please! (But let us know)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from maxraschke)

Villages! The wiki is there: Go and fill it up!(picture from cosmoflash)

Last but not least, if you have something crazy in mind: Go ahead, but speak to us first!

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See you there!



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