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Join us Tour the SpaceIf you haven’t heard, we co-hosted the Maker Faire Milwaukee last weekend. Over 26,000 people attended the inaugural event at the Expostition Hall at State Fair Park! Here’s a few highlights from the event.
Karen with her spinning wheel
Tesla Coils
UFO
B9 Robot
Hiram’s Race Car
Nerdy Derby
MegaMax 3D printer and its proud Dad
Ben Nelson’s Electric Motorcycle
Nerdy Derby Construction Area
Milwaukee Makerspace Booth
Brant’s scale model of the Milwaukee Makerspace!
We did it before, and we’re doing it again! Get ready for Bay View Gallery Night, happening on Friday, June 6th, 2014. Join us from 5pm to 10pm for art from local artists, as well as demos of various things around the space. Interested in learning more about blacksmithing, making armor, screen printing, lasers, crafting with CNC machines, electronics, boat building, tiny electric race cars, fighting with magnets, giant industrial robots?* Come on down!
* While other venues may have a few of the things mentioned, we have all of these things in our 16,000 square foot workshop for crazy people!
Whoa! Super busy weekend at Milwaukee Makerspace!
There’s a DC414 Meeting on Friday April 4th, 2014 at 7pm, but don’t stay up all night hacking away on things, because there’s more fun on Saturday.
On Saturday April 5th, 2014 from 11am to 6pm is Table Top Board Game Day! Bring your friends and your games!
Saturday is also the Milwaukee 3D Printing Meetup at 1pm.
But Wait! There’s More!
This one’s for members only, but we’ll be running a Makerspace Monthly Orientation Class on Saturday at 10am. If you’re a new member, please attend!
And if the space is too crowded for you, head over to KappaKon/Concinnity 14 happening on the 3rd floor of the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Student Center.
The DC414 Meeting, Table Top Board Game Day, and Milwaukee 3D Printing Meetup are all free and open to the public, so come hang out at Milwaukee Makerspace with us!
Milwaukee MakerFest was amazing, and you’ve probably already seen some of the photos, but we also wanted to share this video that one of the attendees made.
(Thanks to Tyler “Squid” Strasser for creating this. You can also check it out on YouTube.)
Next year when people ask you what they might see at Milwaukee MakerFest, show them this. :)
As we mentioned back in July, Milwaukee Makerspace was selected to take part in the 2013 Hackerspace Challenge put on by RadioShack and Popular Mechanics, and now we can reveal it all, and we’re also asking for your vote!
Head on over to www.popmechnow.com/radioshack, watch the videos, and vote for the best project. I mean, we’re pretty confident you’ll prefer our project, but check out the awesome stuff that the guys from Inspiration Labs did. Hey, it’s got a TARDIS so those guys must be alright! ;)
I know you really want to see the Milwaukee Makerspace Morgifying Marble Manipulation Machine (aka: M6) mark your calendar for October 19th, 2013 because Milwaukee MakerFest will feature the M6 as for you experience in person!
(Oh yeah, we’re also running a Kickstarter Campaign to help make Milwaukee MakerFest ever more awesome. Help us out if you can!)