Post a picture and description of anything you are working on this month at the 'Space here!
It can be anything from a small craft project to a large CNC router project to building a table to 3D printing to a science experiment and so much more. There are lots of people doing cool things at DMS all the time, but most of us don’t get to see it. Post it here and share the interesting things you are doing at Dallas Makerspace this month!
Posting here helps not only promote Dallas Makerspace, but could inspire others to make something. It will also help PR post a monthly look at what can be done here on a blog post or other social media ( with attribution to each maker of course ).
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Laser cut / etched on Big Thunder from 4 30" x 24" 1/8" Baltic Birch plywood sheets. Design has 306 pieces and was bought from MakeCNC.com. Fun project to do with my daughter while she was home from college for Thanksgiving. The top part containing the drawers and the tree actually rotates on the base. It’s a little over 2’ tall.
So its not fancy, Shiny or does wiz bang things. I made a chock for my lift gate strut for my back glass on my Excursion. Being a cheap bastard & a maker, I just made it. Nothing fancy, very quickly done out of 1” aluminum cut on the band saw. I then faced & chamfered both ends on the lathe. I then put it in the vise in the Bridgeport & used a 3/8 Ball nosed end mill to machine it out. A quick debur & I was wrapped up. I will add I was in a pretty big hurry to get it done, so no knurling or special features.
Forged hot camping hotdog/marshmallow fork. This is one of two projects for this Sunday’s Intro to Blacksmithing class (the other being a triangle dinner bell).
Thank you, @Lindajdallas for another awesome chainmaille class tonight! I’ve fallen rather behind on posting my various chainmaille projects on TALK, but we have made some really cool & spiffy things in these classes with Linda & Rose (@Just_Me). Tonight, we made a King Byzantine keychain & some cute helm earrings:
In Rose’s class, we finished up our complicated but amazing-looking reversible Double Half Persian chainmaille bracelets in Cool fall colors - I went kind of phoenix-y (the mythical bird, not the state) with mine & love how it turned out!
I’ve been cutting some presentation boxes for Christmas on the laser and decided to make a fit gauge to see how much I’d need to oversize tabs to get good engagement.
The general concept - single, constant-size slot with tabs at +0.00" through +0.03".
(Since metric weenies will probably come out of the woodwork - yes, yes, the machines work in metric and production files are obligingly scaled up by 25.4 from the design file in inches thus I may well be making more work for myself designing in inches. You’re absolutely right and I don’t care - as the results demonstrate, there’s a discernible difference at 0.01" increments)
With some scrap vinyl and a little etching cream I made these two customized Pyrex casserole dishes to give as Christmas gifts. I got the dishes on sale for $5 each, so between that the vinyl and the cream the whole project cost about $7 per dish.
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I’ve fallen rather behind on posting my various chainmaille projects on TALK, but we have made some really cool & spiffy things in these classes with Linda & Rose (
