CRASH Kit Build In Santa Monica – CANCELLED

Posted on June 13th, 2014 by theron • Filed under Events • No Comments

UPDATE – this event has been cancelled. We will be scheduling a Drawdio kit build night at CRASH Space in the near future.

On June 21st at 11 AM, CRASH Space will be running a kit build event at the 1450 Ocean Avenue Camera Obscura building.

We will be building the Adafruit Drawdio kit. It turns a pencil into a musical instrument. It’s super easy to build and a great way to learn how to solder (don’t worry, we’ll teach you. We’ll have all the tools you need.

(Camera Obscura photo by Scott Garner)

Femgineers are the Future!

Posted on June 13th, 2014 by rkoukal • Filed under Events • No Comments

Our friends over DIYgirls continue to trailblaze the future for our young girl hackers. They are holding a 5 week STEM summer camp for girls entering 6th, 7th and 8th grade with some truly amazing programming. Check out the schedule below and be totally jelly if you’re not a young woman because it’s going to be fantastic.

You can still participate by sponsoring a cool kid to attend. Click below for more info or email summer@diygirls.org if you have any questions.

Indiegogo CNC Fundraiser Launch!

Posted on May 27th, 2014 by outlawpoet • Filed under Events • No Comments

We’ve launched our Indiegogo campaign to get a new CNC Mill and provide you with cool classes. Check out the link for more details.

See us at Makerfaire, and prepare for the incoming CNC Fundraiser

Posted on May 17th, 2014 by outlawpoet • Filed under Events • 1 Comment

See our table at Makerfaire up in San Mateo, and meet the people behind Crashspace, as well as see examples of member projects!

Crashspace goes to Makerfaire every year, and it’s always a good time, if you’re on the fence, it’s not that expensive, and general admission starts tomorrow!

And at Makerfaire we’re talking about our first crowdfunding campaign directly for the space, the IndieGoGo CNC Fundraiser. We’re raising money to help buy a ShopBot Desktop CNC Mill, and you can help us by buying an early ticket to take a class on how to use this powerful technology, or just selecting one of the cool perks we’ll give you for helping us out!

The campaign is still being finalized, but will launch Monday, May 26th! Watch this space for more announcements.

Crafternoon WrapUp : Fun Times and Shirt Were Made

Posted on May 6th, 2014 by matt • Filed under Events • No Comments

This past Saturday we hosted our annual tshirt making crafternoon.

We got a good turnout throughout the day all the way from the cleanup at noon to the late night grilled cheese outing and further wearable hacking with midi controlled 1 watt leds and lasers well into the Sunday morning hours. Thanks, Club Mate!

Penny, our favorite addition from our first Swap-o-rama-rama, made an appearance and huge contribution by running the machine in the office. She inspired some crocheted lilypad fixturing from the donations by SparkFun and she developed a very nice technique for reverse appliques by doubling up the shirts.

On the high tech front we had James playing with led matrices as a wearable necklace piece. There was lots of experiments with inkofilm for transfering images with sunlight through transparencies and even a delaminated polaroid of sparkles

We designed a semi-official crashspace tshirt. you can pre-order one by posting to our mailing list crashspacela: crashspace@googlegroups.com

Silkscreening is always a big easy win. We had plenty of extra shirts for everyone on-hans due to a kind donation from instructables. We lasered some slick pirate designs and used a lot of our crash logos stencils.