In case you’ve forgotten, or aren’t regularly reading, tonight at 7 at Red Hat HQ TriLUG is doing a big presentation on the Raspberry Pi. Best of all, a bunch of Splatspace members are going to be presenting and showing off what they’ve done with the Raspberry Pi.
Event details are here.
While a bit late, here’s the schedule for this week:
And while it’s not at the space, don’t forget this week’s TriLUG meeting, all about the Raspberry Pi, with many of our own members demoing the things they’ve done. That’s this Thursday, starting at six, at RedHat HQ.
One of the goals of Splatspace is to help our community with the skills and
resources we have available. While we certainly think we help do this with our
workshops and other lessons, sometimes we get to help in a more direct
fashion.
The Western Alamance Robotics Club — a local FIRST team
— recently came to us needing help with some custom parts for the robot
they’re building for their challenge. They came to the space and met with
Jeff Crews, who offered to help them print the parts they needed.
Over the course of a few days the team iterated through the design they needed
and sent their final stl files to Jeff, who printed them over the weekend. The
Alamance team had to do a bit of sanding and fine tuning on the parts to get
a good fit, but the print was a success and they’re continuing their build!
Here’s one of the parts they printed, installed in their build:
We’re thrilled that Splatspace could be part of this project, and that we
could help out local makers.
If you need help with a project, or have something cool to show off like the
Western Alamance Robotics club, come visit us at one of our open
meetings.
One of our members, Drew Nelson, was recently published in Infoworld, tackling the subject of 3D printing:
The thrill of 3D printing is that is bridges the virtual and the actual. Based on manufacturing technologies developed decades ago, the 3D printing process begins with carefully wrought 3D design files and ends with the robotic arm of a 3D printer flying around to fabricate physical objects of plastic or metal. It’s the darling of hacker and steampunk communities and the hope of many who’d love to see a boom in small-scale manufacturing.
At the high end, 3D printers aimed at the aerospace market cost a king’s ransom and produce solid hunks of titanium. Cheaper, more versatile laser systems fabricate objects out of melted metal or plastic powders. But the real excitement centers on low-cost 3D printers that use a process called fused deposition modeling (FDM), where plastic wires are melted and deposited to form finished products.
It’s a great article, and worth reading.
Here’s this weeks events at the Space.
On Monday, DC919 is holding a holiday toy social starting at 7 pm.
On Tuesday, we’re holding our usual open meeting starting at 7 pm.
On Wednesday night, the personal fabrication group is meeting up at 7 pm.
Thursday night is a busy one; Libre Thursday is on from 6pm to 7pm, followed by TriZPUG’s monthly meeting at 7pm.
Rounding out the week is Software Sunday starting at 6 pm.
Just a quick post to tell everyone that on the 12th (this Wednesday), Triangle Creative Commons is joining with Red Hat and others to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Creative Commons. They’re throwing a party at Red Hat HQ from 5:30 to 7pm, featuring lightening talks, pizza, and beverages.
Done anything with Creative Commons? Are you a fan of CC licensed works or music? Looking to do something cool on Wednesday night? Then RSVP for the event and be there.
One of the coolest little devices to come out in recent times has been the Raspberry Pi. I think I’ve seen dozens of projects featuring it on the net since it’s been released, and several of those have been by members of Splatspace.
Because of all that interest, TriLUG is going to be talking about the Raspberry Pi in its January meeting, and a bunch of Splatters will be showing off what can be done with it.
The meeting will be an up close introduction to the Raspberry Pi, with demos and opportunity for hands on experience. There will be a short presentation of the device’s creation, but the majority will be demonstrations of the Pi’s utility for low level, arduino like applications to high level applications using languages like Clojure.
The meeting is on January 10th, at the Red Hat HQ in Raleigh. All the details are available on TriLUG’s site. It’s going to be a really cool meeting–you should make a plan to attend it.
Here’s this weeks events at the Space:
As usual, we’re having an open night on Tuesday, startin at 7pm.
Thursday, TriLUG is having a show and tell at the Space from 7pm to 10pm.
Saturday, Triangle Arduino is having their Hack Afternoon from 2 to 6pm.
Rounding out the week, on Sunday we’ll have our usual Software project night.
Here’s the following rundown of events at the Space this week:
On Tuesday, we’re having our usual open meeting, starting at 7:00pm.
This Saturday has the Personal Digital Fabrication meetup, starting 1:00pm. It’s a meetup for people interested in 3D printing and other maker projects.
Rounding out the weekend, Sunday night hosts the Software Project night, starting at 6:00pm.
This past weekend, Jeff Crews held a textile workshop. Several members showed up to work on a variety of projects, ranging from a an old-style greatcoat by Jeff to draft stoppers and other smaller prototypes.
Jeff made great use of the open space in the makerspace to lay out his yards of heavy wool for his great coat and get it cut into the pieces he needed.
I was there working on a project for a design course, making a rough prototype of an accessory storage system.
We also had people working on jewelry storage projects and draft stoppers.
It was a really successful workshop. If you’re interested in textile projects, swing by on a Tuesday night or email us to find out when another workshop or similar event might be happening.