Cape Fear Maker Space

A big round of thanks to everyone involved in our second free community workshop. The students were great and the contributions of many knowledgeable and helpful Guild members really made the event a big success.

Last week we held our first public, free workshop for students. It was a great success. After introductions and a tour of the Makerspace, we sat down to discuss safety and the basics of circuitry. The safety portion included a demonstration of an exploding capacitor (a good inspiration to make sure you have the polarity right later on).

Cape Fear Makers Guild is pleased to sponsor Wilmington's first and only* Science [AND/OR] Fiction Book Club on Tuesday, November 8th at...

In early August, Steven Gray, the Executive Director of Makerspace Charlotte, was kind enough to give Thomas Barnett and myself a tour of the facility.

Earlier this month, Cape Fear Makers Guild had the distinct pleasure of receiving a visit from Joel Leonard, a leading international advocate and advisor for Makerspaces. Joel is extremely well known in the regional Makerspace community. It is safe to say that I have yet to have a conversation with anyone that’s heavily involved with Makerspaces in North Carolina without Joel’s name coming up. Joel was kind enough to join us for dinner, visit our humble Makerspace, attend our August BOD...

Cape Fear Makers Guild is extremely pleased to announce that, due to the kind generosity of The Church of the Good Shepherd, our...

Plans for 2022 can be broken down into 3 categories:

Our website now has several exciting new features:

There are over 36 churches within 1 mile of Downtown Wilmington. Wow. Pretty impressive, considering half of that area is river and swamp. The letter pictured below went out to them all on June 23rd. We'll let you know what they say.

On June 19th (aka Father's Day), Scott Hall, one of the founders of SplatSpace, Durham, NC's Makerspace, was kind enough to take 3 hours from his day to show me around the facility and sit down with me and chat about the things that go into a successful Makerspace.