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We’ve got a sewing machine. I had no idea how much fun these things were!
In the pictures below we are doing freehand sewing. You flip a couple of switches and then you are able to move the fabric manually in any direction.
Wohoo!
We will post the manual and instructions later.
I’ve been poking around and this might be “KENMORE SEWING MACHINE 158.14100” and it may be from the 60s.
Or it’s something not very far off from this:
I made up a stamp business card for the makerspace.
You can see other cool business cards at the inventorArtist.com site.
The plan was to do Fathers Day portraits like we did for Mothers Day. Nobody came for that but we had 8 people and we did a CNC walk-through on making these Fathers Day Coasters!
One of the purposes of Hack613 is a stable place for meetups.
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I have purchased 20 chairs plus tables plus Atomic Rooster can lend up to five. There are another five chairs in the four boardrooms that can be used as well. I’ve installed an overhead projector, internet and have paper and pens on the main tables.
There are four boardrooms where people can break off as well.
At Artengine, there was this very cool initiative called something like “Have a Part, Need a Part” or something like that. I believe it was initiated by Ryan Stec and it was a repository of parts and materials that people shared.
In our group we had something similar except were labeled and priced. The idea was if you had extra stuff (like when you order 100 of something but only needed 20), you can place some of them on the parts share. Other people who need the parts can avoid mail order plus you can reduce your inventory.
This was great for Arduino and electronic parts since those activities are so parts oriented. And it facilitated a bit of trading and sharing of extra parts.
Now we just join the google group (see the online link) or discuss exchanges at the meetups.
Great for invitations, cards, portraits or just making spirograph patterns.
To operate:
Install Inkscape.  Download this Inkscape plugin. Unzip it and install. Locate the config file in the installation folder and overwrite it with the one in the zip file. The config file may be at C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions.
Plug onto the machine and in Inkscape open the extensions and you will see Axidraw extension there.
