March 2011
6 posts
Get your learn on...
Workshops! Makeshops! All workshops are $50 unless otherwise noted.  Makeshops are $25 unless otherwise noted.  To sign up, call or stop by.  See you here! TOMORROW from 7-9pm: Arduino Shields! Sunday, March 27 2-4pm: Open SCAD Saturday, April 2 2-4pm: Basics of Working with EL Wire Working with EL wire is easy!  In this workshop you will learn the basics of working with...
Mar 24th
Capacitive Touch with LilyPad Arduino
A little while ago I wrote about a student in the industrial design program at the UW making some really neat packaging. The other day I saw a group of three other students in the same program working on making their final project. While they had several weeks to do the project, they were scrambling to finish (haven’t we all been there?). Of course it makes sense when you learn that they were...
Mar 12th
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Some photos of the shop.
Today on Flickr, a slideshow after the jump.
Mar 11th
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The Makerbot Challenge...
One of the things about Metrix Create:Space that makes me happy is that it has become a hub for DIY 3D printing. We have one of the first 100 makerbots, and we have seen that community grow.  We have built printers from scratch and from kits, and have ripped apart commercial beasts.  Bre Pettis saw his first RepRap Mendel print here. Saturdays are slated for 3D printer topics, and we have a lot...
Mar 9th
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Arduino Outreach
Several months ago, a teacher at Seattle’s Bush School, Marilyn, was looking for someone to help teach an Arduino based class to make little robots. Her son had taken a similar class and had a great time; she wanted to bring that experience to more high school students at her school. She Googled for Arduino and Seattle, and the first relevant link was to Metrix’s site. She emailed Matt, the owner,...
Mar 7th
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Clone Factory Bootstrapping
As many of you know, we like to take action and move fast on things that excite us.  A couple of weeks ago, Open3DP announced their clonedel process, and we decided that we were going to be the first to jump on board.   I posted that we were going to do a Kickstarter project, and begin building a Distributed Clone Factory. Unfortunately, Kickstarter didn’t see this project as fitting...
Mar 1st
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