Power Wheels Racing

Posted on August 20, 2016 by Carl Stevens

Race Head Last month the Milwaukee Makerspace Racing Team packed up the cars and road tripped to 2 images vertical Maker Faire Detroit. After long nights working at the space until 4am for the week before the drive Ed, Kathy, Pete, Andy, Vishal, and too many others to mention got 3 cars race ready. The Bluth Stair Car, Super Tux Kart, and Hippie Rose made the journey to Detroit without damage are and were a blast to drive.

Our 3 cars raced with 34 others in the biggest Power Racing Series event to date on the biggest track ever made. It was great to see all the hard work paying off as the builders of the cars became the happy drivers of the cars. Both days of races were streamed live by our friends at Make Magazine to Twitch.tv where they can still be watched. Be sure to check out the race at Maker Faire Milwaukee September 24th-25th.

Check out the race from day one at the link below:

https://player.twitch.tv/?volume=1&video=v80805800&time=04h50m54s

Time To Get Nerdy!

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Carl Stevens

Nerdy Head

Make sure not to miss this weekend’s Nerdy Derby at American Science and Surplus. Adrian and the rest of the nerdy team will be helping kids and kids at heart turn blocks of wood into rolling masterpieces of speed. If you have not been to a Nerdy Derby event this will be one not to miss. 3D printed wheels have been coming in from printers all over the city and from our Makerspace 80 at a time.

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Building a car is easy and there will be a nice long track to race down once you’ve finished your creation. You start by picking a block of wood and some wheels. After a bit of nailing its off to nerdy up your car from piles of amazing decorations. Makers are encouraged to decorate, test, and re-decorate. Everything that you glue onto a car affects the way it moves down the track. See you there!

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August 20th 11am-3pm

American Science & Surplus Milwaukee

6901 W Oklahoma Ave

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53219

Making Spirit-Infused Beverages!

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Zimmerman, Amy

A bunch of members & friends of the Milwaukee Makerspace recently gathered to try our hand at something that does not mix well with all the heavy machinery at the shop: alcoholic beverages! We attended a consumer cocktail academy hosted by Hendricks Gin at the Iron Horse Hotel, and we had a blast!

Check out our pictures:

Cheers!

Awesomeness in the Making – it’s the Holiday Make-A-Thon

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Vishal

Since 2010 Milwaukee Makerspace has partnered with Bucketworks to host a Holiday Make-A-Thon on the Friday following Thanksgiving. What do we do at the Make-A-Thon? We make things of course, but more importantly we make things for the holidays and help children of all ages make holiday items for gifts, decorations or donations.

Typically this event was held at Bucketworks. In 2013 Bucketworks was moving into their new space so the event was held at the Milwaukee Makerspace in Bayview.

The question for 2014 is “where are we going to hold the Holiday Make-A-Thon” or is it Make-A-Thons?

The answer is we can have multiple Make-A-Thons at different locations, hosted by different groups on the same day.

Please join us for the Holiday Make-A-Thon happening at the Milwaukee Makerspace and the Mini Make-A-Thon happening at UberDork Cafe on Friday November 28th, 2014 from 1:00pm to 6:00pm.

This event is competely free and we ask for donations to help cover the cost of materials.

Activities
Some of these are tentative and will rely on people to volunteer to make them happen!

Decorate a laser-cut ornament
Design a laser-cut ornament
Learn to solder a tie-pin
Design & 3D print a cookie cutter
Make a necklace / bracelet
Make a rose pin
Decorate your own gift wrapping paper
Fold a paper diamond ornament
Make a woodcut print

Refreshments
Want to bring something delicious to share? Please do!

Cookies
Pie
Leftovers!

Maker Faire Milwaukee Recap

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Vishal

If 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.