Ben gives a presentation about a sounding rocket that he and a group of coworkers designed, built and launched. You can read about more Omaha Maker Group presentations at www.omahamakergroup.org.

Dave did a demo involving various types of piezoelectric devices, including one that he made from common kitchen ingredients. You can read about more Omaha Maker Group presentations at www.omahamakergroup.org.

At the Makery lately, Brandon and I [with some help] have been working on a CNC Hot-wire Foam cutter quite a bit like this one.  Ours is going to be a bit larger, capable of slicing up a 2×4 foot piece of foam (actually, the X is more like 5 feet than 4). For our [...]

Ever since I visited Noisebridge in San Fransisco back in November of 2010,  I had burned into my head how amazing it was, and how great it’d be when we finally had a space of our own in Omaha.  What I didn’t see in my brief visit was all the work that someone’s doing behind [...]

Tuesday marked the 1 year anniversary of the Omaha Maker Group, known internally as Founding Day. It signifies the first [large] meeting of Makers at Upstream Brewery where the Omaha Maker Group name was chosen.  It wasn’t until later that we were legally organized, but that’s not the point. In honor of the somewhat momentous [...]

An semi-automatic guitar plays "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star", with a bit of human help. Version 2 will be able to play all on its own.

Tonight, I was on assignment for Brandon and the Makery Mendel again, this time drilling some really really tiny holes. These acorn nuts will be used as print heads to extrude the molten plastic on the almost-done Makery Mendel 3D printer. I started the process by holding the piece of allthread (Which has a shallow [...]

James demonstrates how to wind an extension cord such that its easy to uncoil, tangle free.

More of the Panasonic industrial robot arms, now at full power. The video doesn't show it, but we've rigged the controllers to provide full operating voltage, and are just using a DPDT (center off) switch to act as a reversible motor control.
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Brandon and Kevin built a LoL Shield kit; See it in operation!