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We’ve had a few members approach leaders at the makerspace lately to say, “I just broke a machine! What should I do!?” This topic is covered in safety classes but we wanted to reiterate some best practices.

Here are some things you should NOT do:

1. Have no idea what to do
2. Leave without doing anything
3. Blank stare for extended period of time

Here are some things you SHOULD do:

1. Turn it off.
2. Unplug it.
3. Gather information. Examine the situation as best you can. What’s damaged? Will new parts be…

23b Shop member Atari makes his first appearance on element14 Presents (formerly The Ben Heck Show) building a homebrew Geiger counter complete with the trademark 23b “Civil Defense” roundel.

The 23b Shop website is being rebuilt.  Please check the following links if you’re looking for something:

Old 23b Shop Blog (Archived projects and events)

Hackerspaces Wiki 

Sparklecon Info (Our yearly hacker con in January)

Cheers,

Arclight

Makers, I heard that you’d like quick, scannable emails to let you know what’s going on. So here are my top things to know for July.

First – If you only do one thing, please take our 2018 member survey The next year is going to be huge, and we’re using your survey responses to drive our priorities. Thank you to everyone who’s taken it so far.

MakeICT Logo Screenprint Jam Monday July 9, 7pm (bring your clothes!)
MakeICT election process Town Hall Mo…

This post was contributed by LaDeana Dockery

We met a lot of great people and had a lot of fun going to the 2018 Nation of Makers Conference (NOMCON).

Most of us (David, Malissa, Logan and myself) set out Friday morning… well Thursday night really.  It is 2:30am when the train leaves Newton, Kansas heading West.  If you have never taken the train, you should at least take one trip.  We watched the scenery from Western Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico fly by from the Observation car as we…

Desde el martes 12 de Junio hasta el sábado 23 de junio, el labo de juguete visita Santiago de Chile, Viña del Mar y Valparaíso, invitado por la Fundación Planea. Acá un resumen de las actividades (click en los links para más data):

MARTES 12 (Santiago) : Taller de construcción de Ludotecnia (circuito sonoro)

JUEVES 14 (Santiago) : LUDOTECNIA en vivo en Café con Cables 

Sábado 16 (Viña del Mar): Taller de juguetes frankenstein para niñxs

Sábado 16 (Viña del Mar): Taller de circuitos sonoros…

We have some terrific events happening at Urban Workshop this month!

Tuesday 5/1/18 9:00 am: Orange County Department of Education Event
Wednesday 5/2/18 6:30 pm: Orange County Astronomer’s Club Meetup
Wednesday 5/9/18 1:00 pm: Office Hours w/Steve-Member Small Business Assistance
Wednesday 5/9/18 6:30 pm: EarthMAKE Monthly Meeting
Thursday 5/10/18: Victor Valley College Tour of Urban Workshop
Friday 5/11/18: Independent Learning Academy Meet & Greet (off-site)
Friday 5/18/18: LA Harbor College…

Many people do not realise how much heat is generated by modern high brightness LEDs. An old-fashioned 100W incandescent light bulb produces around 5% visible light, 83% infrared radiation and 12% heat. An equivalently bright LED bulb might produce 30% visible light and 70% heat. Although the total power consumption is much less (around 17W for the LED), the amount of heat which must be dissipated at the source is almost the same (12% of 100W is 12W, 70% of 17W is 11.9W), and LEDs are easily…

Last wednesday we had the mayor visit the shed to have a look around. The visit was also documented by MK Citizen and made the front page of the paper edition.

They were impressed by the 3D printers we had built and Paul designed a key ring with the Mayors name on it for him to take away. Here’s a couple of picture:

Mayor visits the shed.

Photos by Nigel

We have a 2,000 sq ft event hall with an adjoined 16,000 sq ft workshop and offers the ability to hold corporate and team building events, build competitions, charity events, school and training programs, and parties. The facility is complete with a Bose public address system and Dell overhead projection system. The large space allows for many table configurations. We have a kitchen that can be used for staging and serving to…