From jtillots at cogbots.com Tue Jan 3 22:49:52 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 22:49:52 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Meeting tomorrow at 7pm Message-ID: We will be meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7pm. Come one and all! There seems to be a good number of us in town, so it should be a fun time. The public is invited, so if you're not a member, please come on by and check us out! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120103/c5afa386/attachment.html From dosman at packetsniffers.org Wed Jan 4 14:47:58 2012 From: dosman at packetsniffers.org (dosman) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:47:58 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] St.Nicks workshop pics on Flickr Message-ID: See pictures from our 2nd annual St.Nicks workshops. There was T-shirt screen printing, vacuum forming, soap molding, bean-bag sewing, and the list goes on! http://www.flickr.com/photos/bloominglabs/ Thanks! -Nathan http://www.bloominglabs.org From scranfor at indiana.edu Fri Jan 6 22:28:23 2012 From: scranfor at indiana.edu (Samuel Cranford) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:28:23 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Hello! Anybody interested in CNC or need some parts made? Message-ID: Hi all, My name's Sam, I met a few of you at this week's meeting. Anyway, I've built a fairly sizable CNC router (40" x 20" cutting area) and now I don't have any idea what to do with it. Does anyone have any ideas for projects, or do you need some parts cut for a project of your own? I was thinking a hexapod-type robot would be cool, but I've run out of money for things like servos! Here's a small gallery where you can see what it looks like - http://imgur.com/a/y0O3L#0 It can cut both wood and aluminum. I haven't tried any plastics yet, but I might not have appropriate spindle speeds to produce decent cuts (for now). I have a sheet of acrylic which I intend to eventually experiment with. If anybody has a project idea you want to work on, or you just need a few parts for your own project, let me know. I wouldn't ask for anything except the material you'd want to cut and maybe any cutting bits which would be necessary for the part. Thanks, -Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120106/760ddcb7/attachment.html From craiginb at live.com Mon Jan 9 09:26:19 2012 From: craiginb at live.com (Craig Harvey) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:26:19 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] non-profit space Message-ID: Greetings all, I stopped at The Warehouse on south Rogers today and talked to John Buehler who I am also cc'ing on this. The Warehouse has space available (200k sqft) for non-profits and can provide very reasonable rates for qualifying organizations. We talked briefly about his plans for building a community workshop and a kid's club. It sounded to me like we have a lot in common and that this is an opportunity that would serve BloomingLabs well to investigate. Regards,Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120109/65752166/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Mon Jan 9 19:12:30 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:12:30 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Fwd: Programming course In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is a reminder of the Intro to Programming course that is starting this Thursday, January 12, at 6:00pm. The details of the course are listed below. I have decided on a text book - I'm going to use "C Programming Language: 2nd Edition" by Kernighan and Ritchie. It's definitely a book worth owning if you don't already have a copy. If you are planning on attending but haven't contacted me, please drop me a note. I'm looking forward to Thursday - hope you are too! Jenett ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jenett Tillotson Date: Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:24 AM Subject: Fwd: Programming course To: bloominglabs-members at bloominglabs.org, bloominglabs-announce at bloominglabs.org It's official! I'm offering an Intro to Computer Programming course at Bloominglabs this spring meeting on Thursdays from 6pm until 8:30pm. The course will mirror IU's calendar starting on January 12th and ending on April 26th with no meeting on March 15th for spring break. The course will be taught in C and a syllabus is attached (subject to minor changes). Cost is a minimum of $50 for the 15 week long course (feel free to pay more if you want!) and all proceeds will go to Bloominglabs. I also ask that you be committed to attending every week and there will be assignments to work on outside of class (but no exams!). Please send an email to contact at bloominglabs.org if you are interested in attending and spread the word. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120109/89c1fb0f/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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