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Committee - Basement Lab

Submitted by MikeM on

The space has been identified as a perfect place to do a little micro-brewing and as well, a darkroom setup.  There are some medium to major tasks that will be required to ready the space for such activities. 

1: General clean up (FREE!!!)- This entails wiping down all surfaces and refrigerator with disinfectant (Mike M. has a big bottle of commercial strength cleaner) to both kill mold and prep for painting in order to cover the mold and in general, to lighten up the place. 

C2000 LED Experimenters KIT

Submitted by Ryan Zaveruha on

 

So I got this C2000 LED Experimenter's Kit from my Texas Instruments representative.  I have it setup on one of the PCs running the color light demo.  Everyone feel free to mess with it, the documentation is in the box next to the PC.  The kit itself supplies a license for developing on the kit via the USB. The kit includes a Piccolo microcontroller which has dsp functionality.  This may be a useful platform for the sign contol, and they have reference circuits for powering the LEDs.

 

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Creating a Bonderman fellowship but for makers to work out of MakeHaven

Submitted by Kip Steele on

Ever heard of the Bonderman fellowship?  It's a fellowship that gives 20,000 dollars to a recent graduate with the idea that they go out and explore the world. More details here:  http://depts.washington.edu/bondermn/ I wish I had done something like this after graduation.

This got me thinking about makers today. what if there was a fellowship for recent engineers to go out and just build? We have a space, what would it cost for someone to get a chance to living to make and build from a support perspective? The math looks like around 70$ a day for room and board but im also leaving out

Maker Startup Weekend

Submitted by Kip Steele on

Startup Weekends are cool. Makeathons are cool. Startup Weekends + Makeathon = ???

They had one out at TechShop http://3d.startupweekend.org/ 

I've been talking to some people in the general area that have access to some technical tools and personnell  about doing something like this.

If there was a Maker Startup Weekend, what would you like the focus to be and what would you like to get out of the weekend?

Here are some general thoughts on it:

1. Unlike a startup weekend, a prototype or even product would seems to be a pretty difficult task to make happen in such a short period of time

CNC Training @ Gateway

Submitted by Kip Steele on

SUCCESS!

I reached out to Erika Lynch , who is the head of workforce development institute over at Gateway Community college and we spoke about their CNC program. They are consolidating their campus into the new location in New Haven but expect to be ready by the 1st of August. She said that she would be happy to do a site tour and for us to have a look at their CNC machine. She also is intrigued by what Makehaven has to offer and is going to come by on a tuesday night once they have moved to the new campus.

Best part? She sent me a copy of the yet to be published fall calendar that has

How to break software

Learn how to test your software. We'll start off with some basic open source tools that you can use. We'll go into cross platform/browser/mobile device testing as well as internationalization & globalization testing. There may be some hacking as well :)

 

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