From jtillots at cogbots.com Wed Jul 3 13:46:58 2013 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 13:46:58 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Bloominglabs open to the public tonight from 7pm-10pm Message-ID: Bloominglabs will be open to the public tonight from 7pm until whenever we quit (10pm-ish usually although it has been later). Come by and join us for a night of making and socializing. Hope to see you there! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130703/dcc61fc9/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Mon Jul 8 11:53:01 2013 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 11:53:01 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Amazing Maze In-Reply-To: <1373298246.882615657@webmail.wonderlab.org> References: <1373298246.882615657@webmail.wonderlab.org> Message-ID: Is anyone interested in helping Wonderlab make a cardboard maze? They are look for help. See below for more information and get back to either me or Liza if you're interested. Jenett On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:44 AM, wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My name is Liza Huffman, and I am the museum assistant for the Wonderlab > Museum. I was wondering if some of your members would possibly be > interested in designing and constructing a maze out of cardboard. The Maze > would be up for the entire Labor Day weekend, so construction would have to > happen before then, on Friday and Thursday. > > Please let me know if this is something that you would be interested in. > > > > Thanks, > > > Liza Huffman > Museum Assistant > Wonderlab Museum of Science, Health, and Technology > 304 4th St, Bloomington, IN, 47404 > 812-337-1337 ext. 19 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130708/d3a0e09e/attachment.html From krc4267 at gmail.com Mon Jul 8 15:47:06 2013 From: krc4267 at gmail.com (Hans Kelson) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:47:06 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Amazing Maze In-Reply-To: References: <1373298246.882615657@webmail.wonderlab.org> Message-ID: I'm interested! Gotta talk to my dad, of course... But I'm interested! -Hans *Registered Linux user #**555528* On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jenett Tillotson wrote: > > Is anyone interested in helping Wonderlab make a cardboard maze? They are > look for help. See below for more information and get back to either me or > Liza if you're interested. > > Jenett > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:44 AM, wrote: > >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> My name is Liza Huffman, and I am the museum assistant for the Wonderlab >> Museum. I was wondering if some of your members would possibly be >> interested in designing and constructing a maze out of cardboard. The Maze >> would be up for the entire Labor Day weekend, so construction would have to >> happen before then, on Friday and Thursday. >> >> Please let me know if this is something that you would be interested in. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Liza Huffman >> Museum Assistant >> Wonderlab Museum of Science, Health, and Technology >> 304 4th St, Bloomington, IN, 47404 >> 812-337-1337 ext. 19 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Bloominglabs-announce mailing list > Bloominglabs-announce at bloominglabs.org > http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-announce > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130708/a820b222/attachment-0001.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Thu Jul 11 15:44:50 2013 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:44:50 +0800 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Wonderlab soldering workshop, July 16th, 1pm-4pm Message-ID: This is a reminder about the Wonderlab soldering workshop, July 16th, from 1pm-4pm, at the University Elementary School. The address for the workshop is: 1111 N Russell Rd, Bloomington, IN We will be soldering together Drawdios! I will need several people to help with this workshop. If you can come, that would be awesome. See you Tuesday. Holler if you have any questions. And if you haven't told me you are coming yet, please drop me a note. Thanks! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130716/68d022ff/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Wed Jul 17 17:23:01 2013 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:23:01 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Bloominglabs is open tonight from 7pm to 10pm-ish Message-ID: Sorry for the late notice. Bloominglabs will be open to the public tonight at 7pm until the last member leaves (at least 10pm). See you tonight! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130717/5fd7b685/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Wed Jul 17 23:06:38 2013 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:06:38 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Makevention! Message-ID: It was pointed out that I haven't sent anything to the list about Makevention! My bad... Anyway, Bloominglabs is hosting a Maker faire - we're calling it Makevention - on August 24th at the Convention Center in Bloomington. We have about 20 local making groups who are going to be there plus a FIRST Robotics competition. You can check it out more at http://www.makevention.org/ The event is free for both attendees and exhibitors. Booth space is free, but if you need to rent a table for your booth, the Convention Center can rent you one for $10. If you bring your own table, it's totally free! We will have both inside and outside space. If you want to exhibit, there is an exhibitor deadline of July 24. Other than that, I'll need help from this list to advertise the event and get the word out. In the meantime, check out the website and spread the word. Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130717/bdd11486/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Wed Jul 17 23:43:13 2013 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:43:13 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] [Bloominglabs-members] Makevention! In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Also! I should mention that Bloominglabs has at least 1,000 sq ft of space, and we need to fill it with Bloominglabs goodness! Austin has agreed to organize the Bloominglabs booth, so send your ideas, projects, etc. to Austin at austintoombs at googlemail.com. Jenett On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Heath Roush wrote: > I'm planning to build my own bicycle, so I would like to plan to have that > there. Hopefully it's a nice day and people can ride it on the trail. > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:06:38 -0400 > From: jtillots at cogbots.com > To: bloominglabs-members at bloominglabs.org; > bloominglabs-announce at bloominglabs.org > Subject: [Bloominglabs-members] Makevention! > > It was pointed out that I haven't sent anything to the list about > Makevention! My bad... > > Anyway, Bloominglabs is hosting a Maker faire - we're calling it > Makevention - on August 24th at the Convention Center in Bloomington. We > have about 20 local making groups who are going to be there plus a FIRST > Robotics competition. You can check it out more at > http://www.makevention.org/ The event is free for both attendees and > exhibitors. Booth space is free, but if you need to rent a table for your > booth, the Convention Center can rent you one for $10. If you bring your > own table, it's totally free! > > We will have both inside and outside space. If you want to exhibit, there > is an exhibitor deadline of July 24. Other than that, I'll need help from > this list to advertise the event and get the word out. In the meantime, > check out the website and spread the word. > > Jenett > > _______________________________________________ Bloominglabs-members > mailing list Bloominglabs-members at bloominglabs.org > http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130717/32a94d75/attachment.html From dosman at packetsniffers.org Thu Jul 18 20:31:46 2013 From: dosman at packetsniffers.org (dosman) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:31:46 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Makevention: mechanical badges Message-ID: <536A2E46-8273-455E-891E-EF6B813E331E@packetsniffers.org> Greetings, Just thought we'd let people get a preview of the mechanical badges we're working on for Makevention. This is an early prototype that Dan has been working on. http://makevention.org/?page_id=141 Thanks! -Nathan From austintoombs at googlemail.com Fri Jul 19 08:53:17 2013 From: austintoombs at googlemail.com (Austin Toombs) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:53:17 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Bloominglabs booths at Makevention Message-ID: Hi everyone! To help us get set up for Makevention activities, Jenett and Dosman have created a page on the wiki specifically for keeping track of the Bloominglabs-related projects that will be set up in our 1,000 sq ft area. http://www.bloominglabs.org/index.php/BloominglabsBooth (also linked from the Makevention wiki page). If you have any ideas for how you could help out at makevention, you can either keep track of them on this page or you can email me about them! We are currently looking for volunteers for several of the booths we know will be there, like the vacuum former booth, the DIY speakers booth, and the sales/donations booth. We are also looking for booth ideas from you! Do you have anything you have built that you'd like to show off? Do you have anything you can teach others in a short time frame to give them a little taste of hacker/maker life at Bloominglabs? Let us know about them! 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Jenett On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Austin Toombs wrote: > Hi everyone! > > To help us get set up for Makevention activities, Jenett and Dosman have > created a page on the wiki specifically for keeping track of the > Bloominglabs-related projects that will be set up in our 1,000 sq ft area. > http://www.bloominglabs.org/index.php/BloominglabsBooth > (also linked from the Makevention wiki page). > > If you have any ideas for how you could help out at makevention, you can > either keep track of them on this page or you can email me about them! We > are currently looking for volunteers for several of the booths we know will > be there, like the vacuum former booth, the DIY speakers booth, and the > sales/donations booth. We are also looking for booth ideas from you! Do you > have anything you have built that you'd like to show off? Do you have > anything you can teach others in a short time frame to give them a little > taste of hacker/maker life at Bloominglabs? Let us know about them! > > Hope you're all enjoying the heat, > Austin > > _______________________________________________ > Bloominglabs-announce mailing list > Bloominglabs-announce at bloominglabs.org > http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-announce > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130719/94583ced/attachment-0001.html From dakh_bloominglabs at dakhalsey.com Fri Jul 19 10:03:53 2013 From: dakh_bloominglabs at dakhalsey.com (Daniel Halsey) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:03:53 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Bloominglabs booths at Makevention In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'd like to suggest that each booth needs at least 2 (preferably 3) volunteers to be viable--that'd allow people to switch off, go check out the 'vention, take a bio, eat, etc., without disrupting booth function. DAKMH On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Jenett Tillotson wrote: > Note, we are organizing volunteers for Makevention right now, and we are > planning on staffing some of the Bloominglabs activities with those > volunteers. So, put stuff on the page even though you aren't willing to man > the activity. > > Jenett > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Austin Toombs > wrote: >> >> Hi everyone! >> >> To help us get set up for Makevention activities, Jenett and Dosman have >> created a page on the wiki specifically for keeping track of the >> Bloominglabs-related projects that will be set up in our 1,000 sq ft area. >> http://www.bloominglabs.org/index.php/BloominglabsBooth >> (also linked from the Makevention wiki page). >> >> If you have any ideas for how you could help out at makevention, you can >> either keep track of them on this page or you can email me about them! We >> are currently looking for volunteers for several of the booths we know will >> be there, like the vacuum former booth, the DIY speakers booth, and the >> sales/donations booth. We are also looking for booth ideas from you! Do you >> have anything you have built that you'd like to show off? Do you have >> anything you can teach others in a short time frame to give them a little >> taste of hacker/maker life at Bloominglabs? Let us know about them! >> >> Hope you're all enjoying the heat, >> Austin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bloominglabs-announce mailing list >> Bloominglabs-announce at bloominglabs.org >> http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-announce >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Bloominglabs-announce mailing list > Bloominglabs-announce at bloominglabs.org > http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-announce > From krc4267 at gmail.com Fri Jul 19 10:39:45 2013 From: krc4267 at gmail.com (Hans Kelson) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 07:39:45 -0700 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Bloominglabs booths at Makevention In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Me and a friend might be doing a booth for remote control cars... But we're not sure... Just saying... We don't know if we'll have enough stuff to make it worth it. -Hans *Registered Linux user #**555528* On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Daniel Halsey < dakh_bloominglabs at dakhalsey.com> wrote: > I'd like to suggest that each booth needs at least 2 (preferably 3) > volunteers to be viable--that'd allow people to switch off, go check > out the 'vention, take a bio, eat, etc., without disrupting booth > function. > > DAKMH > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Jenett Tillotson > wrote: > > Note, we are organizing volunteers for Makevention right now, and we are > > planning on staffing some of the Bloominglabs activities with those > > volunteers. So, put stuff on the page even though you aren't willing to > man > > the activity. > > > > Jenett > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Austin Toombs < > austintoombs at googlemail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone! > >> > >> To help us get set up for Makevention activities, Jenett and Dosman have > >> created a page on the wiki specifically for keeping track of the > >> Bloominglabs-related projects that will be set up in our 1,000 sq ft > area. > >> http://www.bloominglabs.org/index.php/BloominglabsBooth > >> (also linked from the Makevention wiki page). > >> > >> If you have any ideas for how you could help out at makevention, you can > >> either keep track of them on this page or you can email me about them! > We > >> are currently looking for volunteers for several of the booths we know > will > >> be there, like the vacuum former booth, the DIY speakers booth, and the > >> sales/donations booth. We are also looking for booth ideas from you! Do > you > >> have anything you have built that you'd like to show off? Do you have > >> anything you can teach others in a short time frame to give them a > little > >> taste of hacker/maker life at Bloominglabs? 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URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20130719/5fb1faea/attachment.html From dosman at packetsniffers.org Wed Jul 24 00:57:41 2013 From: dosman at packetsniffers.org (dosman) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:57:41 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Machining Course - In need of 2nd metal lathe Message-ID: <56A94F5D-2F62-419B-9F29-BA88D4AF80D3@packetsniffers.org> Greetings! For the past few months we've been holding a machining class for Bloominglabs members. The course consists of homework before class begins (both video and reading assignments), followed by 4 weeks of workshop time at 3 hours each session. Both lathe and mill work is performed in the class. The class has been going well and we have been improving it with each rendition. Once all members who wish to take the class have done so we plan to make it available to the public. Currently our main difficulty is only having a single metal lathe which severely restricts the amount of work which can be done even with only 2 students per class. We have an Atlas TH-42 which is a bench-top lathe with a 10" turning capacity. We're currently scouring CraigsList and other sites looking for another lathe of comparable size and quality. Before we make any investment I thought it would be worth asking our announce list if anyone knows of someone who might have a metal lathe which they would be willing to sell or loan to us. Bloominglabs is a charitable non-profit so we can offer a tax deduction in the amount the machine is worth. Otherwise, we are looking at a few members pooling some money to buy a 2nd lathe. Due to the popularity of this class I don't anticipate being able to offer it to the public until late this year or possibly next year. Getting a second lathe will go a long way to speeding up the class. If anyone on our announce list has any leads please feel free to forward this message along. We can be reached off-list at contact at bloominglabs dot org. Thanks! -Nathan http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Machining_Workshop_I