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My Youngest son and I are doing the Mark Rober engineering course (He of the glitterbomb porch pirates fame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g&t=953s) - as my son LOVES loves his videos - and it'll be an easy Father/Son thing to do.
We commit to 30 days of engineering, through 3 project builds.
The first project has to be something to do with food.
Our first build will be a spoon that mixes milk with dry cereal on the spoon (or in your mouth) via a tube fixed to the spoon.
(I wanted a cupcake frosting shotgun - frost your cupcakes in less than a second), but my son really wanted the "Milk-in-yer-mush-inator" spoon :D

I'll keep posting updates here, and lets see how well this works.

We are still holding weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 6pm, open the public if you are interested in joining. Come for a tour.
You can sign up on Meetup.com here https://www.meetup.com/ChattLab-Makerspace-Meetup
One of our members will show you around.
Masks and social distancing are required.

3D printing ear savers for Erlanger. Anyone else who wants to help can get the STL I'm using https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4249113 and print them out and give me a shout and I'll pick them up and deliver them.

Inkscape V1.0 is out.
If you are a Mac user you won't need Quartz anymore, there is a native app now.
https://inkscape.org/news/2020/05/04/introducing-inkscape-10/

Better view of the light bar. It's also switched so you don't have to have it turned on.
Light bar is here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3284730
Octopi case is here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2334119

Printed and constructed a light bar (you can see it mounted on the top orange Z-Axis supports), and also an Octopi case (top left corner on the back of the frame). Also added a fun Extruder motor spinning happy faces ornament.
I have printed extra of these to fit to the Mk3 we have at Chattlab.
So the printer will have Octopi and a light bar as soon as I can get down there and fit it.

First print from the Mk3S came out nice.
Now to print some upgrades for the printer - Rep-Rap and all that...

Spent last weekend building my Prusa Mk3S https://shop.prusa3d.com/en/3d-printers/180-original-prusa-i3-mk3-kit.h… It had been sat in a box since the end of Jan, and I finally got around to building it from a kit with help from my youngest son.

Getting started setting up the PC lab

Our move to a larger space is complete.
We are still in the BDC, but have 50% more space to make things in.

Chattanooga maker day is underway.
Showing prospective members what we do.

Also bumped into a witch, who turned me into a newt...... I got better

More Monty Python guys at DragonCon this year.

Starting back on my ATAT walker model.

We made the local paper
http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/features/if-you-can-make-it-here/

Adam Savage is a gentleman posing for as many photos as you like.

Remote control giraffe on a tricycle.
Cool stuff at NomCon

Yay! Selfie with Adam Savage

NomCon BattleBots viewing party group photo at our space. Thanks for coming everyone.

A close up of those battle scars

Battle scared battle bot Bombshell in the space for the BattleBots viewing party.

Display cabinet is in the space. Got anything to show off, add it to the shelf.

Here is a cool idea for you woodworkers... I want one.

Tim's garage is a little more empty now....

More pictures of moving morning, new tools.

Getting some new tools on loan. Busy morning picking them up, and delivering to the space

We have some new events coming up.

Our next Lan party https://www.chattlab.org/event/lan-party/2

A FabLab orientation https://www.chattlab.org/event/fablab-orientation/1