May 2010
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April 2010
14 posts
Adventures in Sugar and Gingerbread
A gentleman in the pastry business came in today to check out our friendly neighborhood workshop/tool library. One of the things he asked about piqued my interest - he wondered if we could cut sugar sheets on the laser for use in sugar sculpture. After some discussion about materials (and of course pending future experimentation with said materials), I think we could do it. I mean, we...
A case of the Mondays (and Thursdays and Sundays)
Monday can be a quiet night on Capitol Hill. Folks are still recovering from the weekend and so there aren’t many events especially on Monday nights. The thing is it’s still nice to have something to do if you feel like it. Maybe you have to work weekends and Monday is your first day off or maybe you’re just up for something to do.
Because this is the Metrix Blog and I work...
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Reminder: We have Awesome Workshops
Since it’s been awhile since the last post about workshops, I just wanted to remind everyone that there are still some great workshops left to take this month/beginning of next month. There are spaces available in all of these classes, so you still have time to sign up.
Advanced Arduino Input and Output Tuesday, April 27 from 6:30 to 8:30 Cost: $50 for non-members
The importance of the ...
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What can Metrix do for you?
A few days ago I was reading Josh Mahar’s post on CHS Blog about how Seattle First Covenant Church is looking for community input on what to do with the old University Honda Space. Among the possible uses for the space that Josh suggested was a tool library. This gave me pause because that sounds kind of like how I described Metrix in a writeup on I did for CHS Blog and just like how I...
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Music Collaboration Night: House Friday with DJ...
Speaking of collaboration nights, we’ve got a fourth: House Friday with DJ Zhenia. That’s the working title, anyway. If you’re got a better name, we’re open to suggestions.
DJ Zhenia sez, “I enjoy playing music somewhere other than my house and I think that other people would enjoy playing around with midis. Since Metrix has a lot of microcontrollers I’d like...
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Collaboration nights: Kraft Nite, Hack Night and...
To continue the theme of how our middle name is collaboration, I now turn to our weekly collaboration nights.
Kraft Nite is every Tuesday evening and the focus is on things you make with you hands. Usually we get a lot of knitting, sewing and gluing, but I take Kraft Nite to include everything from soldering to crochet to paper-making.
Wednesday nights are Hack Night; then it’s all about...
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Collaboration is our middle name
It’s just that we don’t put it in our signage because “Metrix:Create Collaboration Space” would be a mouthful. But who knows, maybe we should. Because one of the things that’s easy to overlook about Metrix is that the real point of running a shared workshop is so that people can work/create/chat/etc. together.
It’s all well and good to come down to Metrix and...
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Earthworms eat their garbage: Worm Bin Making by...
Sustainable Capitol Hill took their meeting on the road tonight and came down to Metrix:Create Space to make worm composting bins. It looked like they had a great deal of fun with giant plastic bins, cordless drills and tearing up a great deal of newspaper. Cheap, easy assembly, and you just need two plastic bins (one for worms and worm food, the other to catch the drips), a power drill, a...
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