Category: Recent Events

Last night we had a great beginner course on understanding CNC, using Sketchup and the 3020 CNC machine.

The course description was as follows:

Fast track of steps from A-Z of making a simple part. This is an overview and description of CNC. Also during the presentation we will see the process from A-Z of making a small part out of wood or plastic. $15 for non members.

We had a good turnout and we managed to make some pins. We cut them from some stained birch and then glued on a pin using super glue.

I forgot to take pictures so all I have is the before and after shots…

So May 7th (2017) was our first Sunday meetup.

Aside from a drawing robot and CNC demo, the highlight was Doug hacking the “H” balloon into the Starship Enterprise.

The first open house was a success (Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017) and we have our first members! And I got my first “member feedback”. As a result a couple of changes were made to the policy which will be updated shortly.

In summary everybody gets some storage space.

The Maker2 will get a cubby hole! After some thought I think it’s better if Maker1 level had a shared shelf for projects as well. So everybody gets space for projects.