Dallas Makerspace Show and Tell - February 2017

[HankCowdog]

Made my own Maker Stamp for leatherworking. Many thanks to @Webdevel for sharing his experiences to help me dial in the laser settings more quickly.

Other than having to rebuild my Inkscape image from scratch in ADobe Illustrator and forgetting to mirrror the stamp before cutting on my first iteration, things went pretty smoothly. I used a Dremel to chamfer the outer edges so that the rim of the rod wouldn’t mar the surface of the leather when stamping.

Worked ok when hit with a hammer. Worked even better using a vice as a press.

[LisaSelk]

Maker Stamp for leatherworking.

That turned out great!

[Webdevel]

YES!!! Looks great!!! I bet if you wait a bit after wetting the leathers so the inside is moist but the outside is not as much, the impression will be better.

[clk75201]

So far ahead of my pay grade. Gosh that’s impressive.

[HankCowdog]

Sounds like that “patience” thing I keep hearing about.

[vsustko]

Made 8 foot trailer ramps.

[jast]

Very nice! Are those welded steel frame with screwed on wood treads? Is that a special paint to create that texture?

[vsustko]

Yes, got some 1/4 steel and pieced it together. Took a DMS welding and wood shop classes. Wood paint is textured deck paint for more tire traction.

[lukeiamyourfather]

This is my first thing on the vinyl cutter. I think I started too big, it took four tries to get it applied without folding up and crap.

[TBJK]

So I made these today. One is a quilted panel, seen in door panels & dashes. It was made by putting on the slip roll first then to the harbor freight brake.

The next is a cube made out of one piece of sheet steel with “DMS” cut into.

[Lampy]

Love it, now have to go watch a box set of MST3K.

[Photomancer]

You do good sheet man. (sorry couldn’t help myself). I remember you talking about doing this the other day. When will there be an advanced class … be sure to wear your Baileigh hat!

[Brandon_Green]

Some new tools for automotive, etorx set, nice pliers, swivel sockets (cheaped out on the swivel sockets instead of getting the professional quality set)

[Brandon_Green]

Have a receipt printer connected to a pi for a start of a storage kiosk (initially to replace preprinted cards only)

Could deploy it now but then you would require a smart phone / computer on dms wifi to access the internal website, so will find a small screen to make it a kiosk in the next couple of days.

Code is at github.com/brandonagr/dms-storage

[NightRanger]

Been working on a virtual model of DMS… it could serve as the basis for any number of hilarious games

[jkraemer]

Very nice for creating this!

[Photomancer]

Pretty cool - like the title Virtual Model vs Virtual Reality … no tools left out in yours!

[LisaSelk]

Have a receipt printer connected to a pi for a start of a storage kiosk (initially to replace preprinted cards only)

Could deploy it now but then you would require a smart phone / computer on dms wifi to access the internal website, so will find a small screen to make it a kiosk in the next couple of days.

Sweet!! That’s pretty awesome!! Thx!!

[Raymond]

Custom engraving of Atari 2600 related items for a custom pinball project I’m doing.

The Metaza works great!