Makerbot training
If you are a member of Eugene Maker Space and would like to learn how to use the Makerbot 3D printer at Eugene Maker Space, then come to this event! I will go over the basics of how to use the machine and what problems to watch out for. This training will certify you to use the machine on your own so you can print 3D objects to your heart's content!
The training will be from 1:00PM to 3:00PM. It will probably not take up the entire two hours but I've scheduled two hours just in case. Hope to see you there!
Now open Tuesday nights!
Eugene Maker Space is pleased to announce that we will now have open hours on Tuesday nights from 6:00PM to 8:00PM. This has been added to our calendar. These will be considered regular open hours where non members can stop by for a visit or members who do not yet hold keys can come down to the shop and get some work done. Another side effect of this is that there will always be someone at EMS on Tuesday nights now, so the shop will be a bit busier during the week. Our Friday night open houses are still going to happen every week as well.
If you are a key holding member of Eugene Maker Space, and you would like to volunteer to open EMS for one night per week/month/whatever, please email rick (at) eugenemakerspace (dot) com and let me know. I will work out the details with you and I will get it on the EMS calendar. The more nights per week we are open, the more chances we have to increase our membership and build our community into something great. I'd love to see EMS as a place where you can go any night of the week and know that someone will be there working on an interesting project.
Hope to see you around the shop!
Saturday Events
There are a few events happening at Eugene Maker Space this Saturday! First off, at 11:00AM the sysadmin team is meeting up to install Linux on a new rack mount server. The end goal of this project is to move the EMS web services over to actual EMS owned equipment hosted inside of EMS itself. If you have any interest in this process and want to learn more about it, then feel free to show up after 11:00AM!
Then at 1:00PM we are hosting a Makerbot workshop. Have you seen the Makerbot 3D printer at the shop? Have you always wondered how it works and how you can use it to print your own plastic 3D objects? If so, then this workshop is for you. This workshop will go over the basics of how the 3D printer works as well as the basics of how to use the software installed at the shop to print your own designs or designs downloaded from the Internet. This training will get you the certification you need to use this machine on your own if you are a current member of Eugene Maker Space.
These events (and other EMS events) can all be found on the EMS Calendar page. Please check the calendar frequently to find out what EMS events are scheduled. If you have an event you would like to host at EMS, email your idea to board (at) eugenemakerspace.com and they can get it on the calendar for you.
Membership Meeting Saturday
Our next full membership meeting will be on Saturday April 28th at 1:00PM at Eugene Maker Space. All current members of EMS are welcome to attend. The agenda for the meeting is as follows:
- Members need to fill out the membership form and waiver if they have not already.
- Discuss new discussion time limit
- Accounting / Membership Updates
- Updated on moving hosted services
- EMS Bill of Rights
- Fundraising
- Formalize a process for making proposals.
- How can members submit topics for meetings?
We hope to see most, if not all of the members there!
Full Membership Meeting Tonight
The very first full membership meeting for Eugene Maker Space will be held tonight at 8:00PM at Eugene Maker Space. All current members are welcome to attend. Here is a brief outline of topics up for discussion at this meeting.
- Members need to fill out the membership form and waiver if they have not already.
- Updates on the Comcast Internet situation and 501c3 status.
- Discuss and decide on transferring hosted services.
- Discuss the mailing lists / Forums and decide what medium we want to use.
- Formalize a process for making proposals.
- Should we post the board/membership meeting minutes in the wiki rather than as attachments to the wiki?
- Discuss possible member dues payment feedback systems
Membership Meeting Postponed until 3/28/2012
It seems to be a general consensus that holding the membership meeting tonight would be a bad idea since it would be dangerous to drive with all the snow. We are postponing the board meeting and membership meeting until Wednesday, March 28th. The membership meeting will still be held at 8:00PM next week. The calendar will be updated to reflect this. We hope to see everyone there.
First Membership Meeting
Eugene Maker Space will hold its very first full membership meeting on Wednesday March 21, 2012 starting at 8:00PM at Eugene Maker Space. All members of Eugene Maker Space are invited to attend this meeting. Topics up for discussion so far include:
1) Transferring hosted services to EMS owned accounts/servers
2) There was a proposal to use phpBB instead of the current forums
3) Formalize a process for making proposals
4) Post the minutes directly into the wiki rather than as attachments to the wiki
5) Updates on the Comcast Internet situation and 501c3 status
If you have other topics you feel need to be addressed at the membership meeting, please speak up in our Discuss mailing list. If you are not subscribed to Discuss, you can sign up here.
We hope to see all of our current members at this meeting.
Post Grand Opening Thoughts
Thanks so much to everyone who came out to our grand opening event to support us! We had a fantastic time and we hope you will come again. Remember, we have open house nights every Friday night from 6:00PM to 8:00PM so feel free to drop by and see what we are up too. Or, bring a project and get some work done. We will be uploading photos from the event soon, but for now, we hope you enjoy this time lapse video of the grand opening event.
EMS on the NW Tech Show
This week, NW Tech Show interviewed Eugene Maker Space founder Rick Osgood. They talked about EMS, of course, and about maker spaces in general.
Check it out. Download the MP3 here.
Rick's interview starts about 19:27 in.
More Photos
These are from Sunday, January 8th, when several people were working on several things.
Ben was soldering.
More photos below the fold.
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