Archive for the ‘News & Updates’ Category

How CrashSpace got started.

Posted on June 17th, 2010 • Filed under News & Updates • No Comments

Hi, in this video, Sean and club member talk about why and how CrashSpace was started. *A music clip from http://blog.bangsplatpresents.com was used for titles.

 

CrashSpace at DorkBot

Posted on May 25th, 2010 • Filed under News & Updates • No Comments

On Saturday Kevin Nelson gave a great presentation at Dorkbot Socal 40 introducing them to CrashSpace. If you’d like to know about what CrashSpace has been up to lately, click on the link to watch Thomas Edwards video.

 

First MakerBot Print!

Posted on May 20th, 2010 • Filed under News & Updates • No Comments

We got our MakerBot (#962) in mid April and built it over two Sundays in April and May.  After resolving some minor issues, we got our first print on Tuesday!

The Crash Space logo:

Not bad for a first print and no tweaking of settings.

There are actually three MakerBots in the space at the moment, and we had to borrow the Plastruder from one of the others to print, thanks to a cracked retainer plate in the Crash Space Plastruder.

There’s a MakerBot page on the wiki with more information and a list of issues being tracked.

 

Magical Unicorns

Posted on April 1st, 2010 • Filed under News & Updates • 3 Comments

Following up on discussions from our mailing list about the need for a Magical Soldering Unicorn I’ve gone ahead and drafted a first version prototype of what this might look like. I took the liberty of selecting purple sparkles as the colorway, though the final decision on that could certainly be changed before production. The value of something like this is pretty obvious and I expect this to be just the first in an ongoing series of Crash Space sponsored Magical Unicorns.

 

Public Night!

Posted on February 8th, 2010 • Filed under Events, News & Updates • No Comments

Are you curious about Crash Space? Want to figure out what people do at a hacker space? Want to meet some interesting people?

Now is your chance to check out Crash Space. Tomorrow night (Tuesday Feb 9th) at 8pm our usual Tuesday night meeting is open to the public.

What do we do at our usual Tuesday night meeting? A brief bit of CrashSpace business. A show and tell session by our members. Lots of interesting parts and projects show up. Finally, there’s Take Apart Tuesday. The group takes apart a couple pieces of hardware and figures out what’s inside them, how they work, and what parts might be useful to scavenge.

Come on by Crash Space at 8pm and see what it’s all about. We’d love to meet you.