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October 14, 2018October 15, 2018

Ottawa Robotics Meetup

Today we had a draw! The prizes and winners were:

Zen Glider (Phonesavanh)
Spinny Toy 1 (Lakota)
Spinny Toy 2 (Lakota)
Magnifier for Cell Phone (Nicolas)
Tickets to Galatecha.ca –facebook page (Lakota and Paul)

Phone brought her CNC machine and we managed to get it running! There was some talk about CNC and laser and seems people are interested in both. I said I was planning on doing a workshop on it and if people get in touch with me we could do it very soon.

There was some talk about stamp-making and I mentioned we were talking up a workshop right now in our online discussion (link on our main page).

Lots of robots and stuff (and discussion around it) as you can see by the pictures. This regular meetup includes the Ottawa Robotics Enthusiasts.

Here are some pictures from today.

October 9, 2018

Thanksgiving Meetup

Here’re the pictures from Sunday!

Doug and I discussed the cart project plus Lakota and I made stuff on the laser.

September 30, 2018October 1, 2018

Makerfaire Ottawa 2018

Here’s installment 1 of two from the Makerfaire!

Installment 2 of pictures from Lakota.

Installment 3 from Darcy.

Installment 4 from Phone.

September 17, 2018

Sunday Meetup at Library

We’re back at the library!

Here are the pictures. Also there is Lakota’s rooster! Gary’s amp which got fixed during the Wednesday meetups!

September 1, 2018September 1, 2018

Wednesday Meetup

Our last meetup was a bit more sparse than usual but it looks like some progress was made on fixing up one of the participants guitar amp.

Also some pictures from Drawing at the Rooster.

August 29, 2018July 2, 2019

CNC613

CNC613 is a project to create a shared CNC machine. People can learn to use it and understand their needs and eventually elect to buy a machine or just use the shared machine. The exposure to the machine and community around it would lower the friction for people to buy or adopt this method of fabrication.

It was initiated by Darcy Whyte and the first machine was assembled by Doug Commons and Dave Hunt. A bit of help from Richard Sloan.

We now have a great community of practice around CNC techniques.

Adrian Jones, 6090 with a1.5kW water cooled spindle (http://www.woodsgood.ca/)

Arnold Roos, 3040

Doug Commons, 6040, 9090?, XXXX? (http://www.dnclabs.com/)

Darcy Whyte, 6040, 6040, 3020, 2020

Ray Loomer, 6040

Paul Blais
Joe’s CNC” design, made from MDF and conduit pipe/skate bearings for the rails. The “spindle” is just a Bosch wood router. Approximate work area is 2′ x 4′. Currently fits snugly in an 8’x10′ shed 🙂

Johnathan Enright, 3040

Dave Hunt, 6090

Phonesavanh Thongsouksanoumane, 2020

Peter Sjoberg
Cutting area is about 17″x14.5″
Spindle is a 400W brushless dc motor.
Software used is linuxcnc.

Olaf Baumann

Michel Proulx

August 23, 2018August 24, 2018

Library Maker Meetups

Here are pictures from last night and the previous Wednesday.

Lakota and Doug are making great headway with the cart project. I’m working on another installment. You can see the gear-pulley train in one of the pictures.

Photos: Lakota, Darcy

August 13, 2018

Sunday’s Picnic

Here are the pics from Lakota. Also a couple from my camera from last Wednesday.

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018

Printmaking at Onaki Fab Lab

This week I demonstrated how to make business cards using Inkscape on the laser cutter. Also how to make printmaking plates using the laser. We then tried printmaking using some of my existing plates. Up next participants will make their own business cards, other cards or art. Should be interesting to see what comes forward.