Jennifer Farmer brought her home-made cider press to the space tonight, along with apples from her house! Built with boards and plywood and an automotive jack, the rig cost less than $50. Fresh juice for all!! Smashing the apples with a 2×4 Getting the apples leveled The apples weren’t quite perfectly leveled, so the jack […]
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LulzBot 3D Printer At Our Space
February 6th, 2013 
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This past fall we had a visitor from the Loveland-based company Aleph Objects, Inc. which makes Lulzbot 3D printers. After the visit, they offered to sponsor us by providing us with a LulzBot AO-100 3D Printer Package. The printer was basically ready to go – nearly no assembly time and already calibrated. We were printing […]
Arduino Night @ BHS
January 26th, 2013 dixon
We had Arduino night last Thursday. The big win was all the mentorship happening around the room on Arduino, projects and discussing the how’s and why’s. It was a terrific buzz with a wide range of activity. From simple beginner projects… to “The Midi Mushroom”, a really cool project Chris is working […]
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Creating Physical Reality: 3D Printing with the Reprap Prusa Mendel
May 9th, 2012 lizbaumann
We now have a working Reprap Prusa Mendel 3D Printer at the space! 3D printing aka additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file driven by a computer. Plastic is fed from a reel and heated and extruded onto a surface where it is additively layered to create […]
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