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A Los Angeles hackerspace

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Featured How To Member Projects 

Creating Faux Stained Glass with a Laser Cutter

May 7, 2025 Mariam Matta 0 Comments art, lasercutter

I took on a rather intricate project for a laser-cutting beginner and made a lot of mistakes so you don’t have to!

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Hand holding a Triangular PCB with gold graphics and a black solder mask. The PCB features the Crash logo, a triangle with a lightning bolt a with the text CRASHSPACE underneath. The lightning bolt is glowing yellow and the badge is illuminating the hand behind it with a multicolored glow.
Featured How To Member Projects 

CRASH Space Soldering Badge Instructions

April 10, 2025May 2, 2025 Michael Isenberg 1 Comment soldering

Learn how to solder up one of the new CRASHSPACE Badges!

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How To Member Projects 

Learn To Make A Video Game Purse

March 21, 2025April 16, 2025 Alicen Lewis 0 Comments

Functional purse with SNES controller that can play a multitude of ROMs with a Vox face screensaver. Runs on Retropie

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How to use the embroidery machine

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 Liz McFarland 1 Comment

Did you know CRASH Space has an embroidery machine? Specifically, we have a Brother PE800 which lets you embroider built-in

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Mastodon software's illustration of an elephant throwing a paper airplane, but in this image the airplane is made from the CRASH Space logo
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So you want to join Mastodon

November 1, 2022November 1, 2022 carlyn 1 Comment ActivityPub, fediverse, mastodon

TL;DR – Start on http://mastodon.online if you want to start today. It’s a general server that’s run by the non-profit

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Using a whetstone
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Practical Sharpening

March 9, 2021April 4, 2021 Shaun Shue 2 Comments

Especially in cooking prep, a sharp knife is safer than a dull one. If you’re cutting something hard like a

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terminal window executing "shields up" command line utility
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Swapping /etc/hosts files quickly

May 6, 2020May 7, 2020 carlyn 1 Comment bash, command line, hosts, network

Last week I wrote a command line script to print out what day of the week it is. This week

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screen capture of a terminal window that has just run the command whatday and returned Thursday
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What Day is It? Command-line Utility

April 30, 2020May 6, 2020 carlyn 2 Comments command line, python

So you don’t know what day it is? Here is a quick tutorial on how to set up a small

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Making a GIF using FFMPEG

March 3, 2020May 28, 2020 Kevin Jordan 3 Comments FFMPEG, GIF, Images

First, open terminal install FFMPEG brew install ffmpeg Done! Now cd over to the directory your videos are and run

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How To Member Projects 

Air Coil Winder

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Kevin Jordan 0 Comments project

Made an Air Coil winder with Mark Rosen. Put a magnet on the drill to count rotations using an iPhone

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Vinyl Cutter!

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 Kevin Jordan 2 Comments project

Steve helped me get started with Crash’s vinyl cutter, YES, Crashspace has one and it works really well! It’s the

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Neopixel Tester

August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 todbot 0 Comments

I made a thing! It’s a little reprogrammable Neopixel Tester. It’s a small PCB carrier for an Adafruit Trinket M0

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Welcome to CRASH Space. We are a collection of hackers, programmers, builders, makers, artists and people who generally like to break things and see what new things we can build with the pieces. CRASH Space is a 501(c)3 non-profit.

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