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A Maker’s Perspective
I was at Milwaukee Makerspace, using the laser cutter (that I adore so much) and another maker asked me some questions, and then offered their thoughts. This was nothing new, and it’s a welcomed...
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Make. Better.
I’m a fan of the Make Blog, and I’m also a user of a 13″ MacBook Pro, and those two things conflict a little bit. Just take a look at the screen shot above, it’s what I see with a maximized browser...
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Holiday Make-A-Thon 2012 [Time Lapse]
Here’s a quick time-lapse video from the 2012 Holiday Make-A-Thon that Milwaukee Makerspace does in cooperation with Bucketworks. We’ve been doing it for 3 years now, and Bucketworks has been doing it...
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CheerLight 2012
Here’s my CheerLight 2012 device, which I call the CheerLCD! And what is CheerLights you say? CheerLights is an ioBridge Labs project that allows people’s lights all across the world to synchronize,...
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The Making of MAKE
One of the great things about Milwaukee Makerspace is the inspiration you get from other people. Kevin recently used our aluminum forge to create a piece he calls FEAR, which he said was an update of...
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No San Mateo
The Road to Maker Faire Challenge is over, and I’m here to report that I will not be headed to San Mateo for the Bay Area Maker Faire. Congrats to Greathouse Labs for winning the challenge! I was a...
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WordCamp Milwaukee 2013
Hey kids, it’s almost time for WordCamp Milwaukee again, and I’ve been invited back to speak on the topic of my choosing. Mwuhahaha! But seriously, I’ll be covering the importance of blogging to the...
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Make: Lego and Arduino Projects
Leave it to me to forget things! I forgot to mention that my Arc-O-Matic was mentioned in the book Make: Lego and Arduino Projects. Get to chapter 3 and you’ll see one of my photos. I should mention...
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Documented Projects
I like to think that there are 3 stages that a project can exist in: In-Progress Completed Abandoned In-Progress might mean you are in the planning stages, or you’ve completed it, but are revisiting...
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Ignite Madison [video]
The second Ignite Madison happened on February 12, 2014 and I was there… and if you weren’t there, you can still see the video of me talking due to the magic of the Internet! A few notes: Doing an...
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The Like Tracker Kiosk
You may remember my post about the Sir Like-A-Lot, which was a kiosk to show how many “Likes” your Facebook page has. I built it for an event that z2 Marketing had last fall. Well, with it being...
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Day of Making
The Day of Making is upon us! Help me celebrate June 18th (which also happens to be my birthday) by pledging to not just make things, but help others make things. Pledge to share your knowledge with...
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Maker Faire Milwaukee
The news is out! We’re throwing a Maker Faire right here in Milwaukee! The fine folks at Milwaukee Makerspace in collaboration with the file folks at the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum have been...
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Press-Fit Construction
I’ve been looking into press-fit construction techniques for a while now, and I stumbled across this 1917 building set “The Embossing Co Stabuilt Blocks” yesterday. (Nice font, eh?) It consists of a...
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The Ice Hammer
I present to you… The Ice Hammer! Which is, of course, a hammer made of ice, and not a hammer made of something else that is mean to pound ice. That would be ridiculous, obviously. I’m sure you’re...
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Machines That Make
I’ve got a box full of Prusa i3 Rework parts! Well, not the full box, but we’re working on it. When I say “we” I mean myself and my team. This is all for a class titled “Digital Fabrication and Craft:...
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Prusa i3 Progress
We’re making good progress on our RepRap Prusa i3 in our Machines that Make class at UWM. We cut the Lexan frames on the large CNC router after we wrote the G-code in RhinoCam. There was an engraving,...
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Hammer Ring
We had a quick side project in our “Machines that Make” class which involved designing a piece of jewelry in Rhino. The piece was to be 3 dimensional, and entered into the “Rapid Jewelry 3D Printing...
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Milling Recycled HDPE
After all of my experiments with recycling various HDPE scraps, I finally got around to milling a piece on the Shapeoko at BAMspace. The piece I used was close to 0.5″ thick. I added a thin piece of...
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The Maker Movement is about 3D Printers
I’ve seen a lot of people share this post from Jay Silver titled The Maker Movement is Not About 3D Printers, which bothered me, because the Maker Movement can definitely be about 3D Printers, or...
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