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Got the mill powered up now. Still needs a fair amount of work and some tooling, but it's good to see things spinning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpOWLbqFDes

Finally got around to setting up a proper tray for the keyboard and mouse at the Stereo PC. You can finally type at a comfortable level and not have to worry about knocking anything down!

Visiting www.leicesterhackspace.co.uk while visiting the UK

Watching DragonCon lose it's collective mind 😁

President Black Knight hanging with the king at Dragoncon

Jeff finds his favourite Deadpool at Dragoncon 😁

Chip guard

More lan fun

More lan party photos

LAN party underway, feeding each other hot lead and death. 😁

I found some new material at home depot that is 2.7 mm $11 for a 4 by 8 sheet in cuts at a 100% speed 80% power. Also it looks pretty on both sides

Didn't realize that the HackSpace magazine was free to download as a PDF.
Lots of interesting Raspberry Pi projects, plus many other articles to try out as a new project.

Download issues here
https://hackspace.raspberrypi.org/issues

Special thanks to Jeff, Michael Rowland, Curtis, Jonathan, Tim Miller and Dennis. They were able to put quite a dent in the mess including sweeping and mopping floors, putting away items and general cleanup. Curtis and Dennis also organized the woodshop better as well. We should try to do this once a quarter.

Michael, Tim and Jeff were also able to clean the laser grid which was starting to get really nasty smelling of smoke residue.

Great works guys. We should buy then a beer!

We are having a lan party again this Saturday.
8pm until late. 25th August at the space.
We'll do a pizza run at midnight..
Come play quake, unreal tournament and more.
Trash talk your enemies while they are in the same room!

Printed one of these https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3049220 on my Prusa Mk2S, timelapse of it in action here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=108SA0QnhHU&feature=youtu.be
Steering wheel for an XBox controller. Works quite well.

Microscope Demo tonight! Thanks, Dave!

Way to go Tim! This thing was full of dirt!

More thorminator

Playing with the thorminator

$5 snack credit for the first Chattlab'r to laser cut out one of these and assemble. $20 if you can do it on the maslow CNC (LARGE!)

Doing some signage

Learning to use the FSL laser. With Julia, Lee, Jeff and Kevin.

Printed the screws for the dry box!

Spent 13 hours at the Lab today so we could get these with Tim. Tim adjusted more settings, we tighten the belts to prevent slippage, and then printed a shroud so we could install a fan for better printing. Slow progress but slowly proving itself after so much time sitting "broken".

Chromecast added to the TV.

Did a bit of cleaning up the fab lab tonight.

We have a new crafting area! Looking for ideas...

Dropped a couple of new fuses in the Rostock and threw a bag of spares behind the panel. It's ready for the next steps in getting it back in service.

I'm definitely having too much fun with the new laser cutter.

Hello everyone! Prusa gave me the okay with the 3D printer working. They based this off of a successful print of the Prusa Pug "Buddy". I used the gcode that was provided by Prusa for this print. After attempting several prints today, it seems the issue still comes from attempting to print circles. Could Prusa have optimized their gcode for their Buddy print, which would mean I'm just bad at slicing and generating my own gcode? I plan on firmware resetting as well as contacting Prusa on Monday. I'm just curious if anyone had an opinion about other forms of troubleshooting.
***Prusa really upped their youtube channel in the last few days, I hadn't even realized. I considered deleting this point, but would still love to hear if anyone has any comments.***