Midsouth Makers

Here at Midsouth Makers we love the Memphis community. This includes both the people and animals who make this city what it is. Last month, Midsouth Makers had the opportunity to help out the Memphis Zoo and work with some firehose donated by local fire departments. During our workshop, we made enrichment for the elephants, gorillas, and rhinos based on plans from hose2habitat.com. The items are currently in use and both the keepers and animals are thrilled about our work. Check out some…

Did Santa leave a new 3D printer under your tree, and you aren’t quite getting the results you expected? Have an issue with your existing printer? Need some help dialing in your settings? Come out to Midsouth Makers and let our 3D printer doctors help with your printing ailments. You are welcome to pop in for a few minutes, or stay all afternoon.

Join us on Saturday, February 10th from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM for our monthly 3D printer clinic! You can RSVP on meetup.

Like the title says, MidSouth Makers officially has merch! For a very limited time, we have pocket T-shirts for sale with our logo on the pocket and on the back of the shirt. Sizes S through 3XL are available for just $25/shirt. We will be closing orders this coming Friday, 7/21/2023, so no dallying! To order just go to https://midsouthmakers.org/shop or click the MERCH link in the upper right. We use Paypal for our payment processor, but a Paypal account is NOT needed to order.

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Thanks to the nice folks over at Elegoo we will have a brand new 3D printer at the Makerspace soon – the Elegoo Neptune 2S! It is an i3-style “bedslinger” with many cool features like Filament Runout detection, a spring steel magnetic sheet w/PEI coating, a dual-gear all-metal extruder, and a Power-Off Resume.

As a special treat, we will be unboxing, assembling it, and getting the first print going LIVE during our next 3D Printer Clinic on Saturday, August 13, 2022, at 1 pm CST!…

Join us on Saturday, June 11th from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM for our Spring 3D printer clinic! You can RSVP on meetup

Having an issue with your 3D printer? Needs some help dialing in your settings? Come out to MidsouthMakers and let our 3D printer doctors help with your printing ailments. You are welcome to pop in for a few minutes, or stay all afternoon.

Due to Safer At Home guidelines, Midsouth Makers were forced to close our doors to the public in March 2020. We are pleased to announce that our weekly Friday Open Houses are restarting on Friday, June 4th at 7 pm. We’re excited to welcome the public back to our Makerspace and see what we’ve been building in the past year. Feel free to stop by for a tour during these open house events and meet our members.

While we were closed to the public, we were not idle. The high demand for Personal…

After a long 15 months of not being able to hold our public open house meetings, MidsouthMakers has begun preparation to reopen to public open house events starting June 4th, 2021. Here are some pictures from May as members spent each Friday night helping to clean and purge the space to get ready to welcome new members and visitors.

• MidsouthMakers Common Room Posters
• MidsouthMakers Common Room
• Kilns and Member Storage
• Sorting in the Shop
• Classroom Cleaned
• Storage Cleaned up
• Cleaning shelves &…

Speed up your fabrication rates with this simple transparency press & drilling rig. Like many of you, we’re 3D printing PPE face shields for our local healthcare workers and faced a surprising bottleneck — laser cutter cycle time. Our fastest cycle time with two 60 Watt laser cutters was about one minute & 45 seconds for 5 transparencies.

The rig below lets us prep thousands of transparencies in just a couple of hours. We can now drill stacks of 100 in about less than a minute. Some tips: Drill…

Members of the Midsouth Makers are answering the call to 3D print protective equipment for those on the frontline of the COVID19 pandemic.

The Memphis tech community is mass producing PPE using the laser cutters available at Midsouth Makers and their personal 3D printers. The first batch of nearly 500 face shields were delivered to the Memphis Medical Society for distribution to local healthcare workers. 3D printed faces certainly look amazing, but it would be even more incredible to have…

Bena nd Claudio have been hard at work this week building out a new table to rearrange (and improve) our woodworking area of the shop. Thanks guys!