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We’re making good progress on the laser cutter, with the first cuts being very successful. There’s still a few issues to resolve, and lots of testing yet to do to figure out optimal settings for cutting various materials – but …
Great news on the laser cutter front – tonight marked the first ever test firing of the laser! It not only was successful, but nobody was harmed AND VHS is still standing. Can’t complain about that; 3 for 3!
Brent Lang sends us this article he wrote about VHS and the Maker Movement: Maker Movement; Don’t know what it is?
Todays space meeting has cumulated in the formation of a committee to spearhead the search for a new building for Vancouver Hack Space. We’re moving as soon as we can find somewhere suitable! We’ve outgrown our current space, and are …
The team over at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire have announced that the Call for Makers for the 2012 event is now live and they’re accepting applications for Individual Makers, Maker Groups, Startup Makers, and Commercial Makers. The event will be …
Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2012 Call for Makers is live and Applications are open! Read more »
A special hello to last night’s visitors from France! My face when I learned Paris has eight hackspaces You’ve met Tim the new guy, right? 95% awesome, 15% kick ass. He’s been to the space twice and finished two different …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvTGgrPJEo] A special thanks to Karl for teaching me many things last night, John for helping test my steppers, and everyone for just being so damn awesome.
2012 is already a great year with so many amazing projects at the Vancouver Hack Space! Automated manufacturing is huge at the ‘space. The Sherline mill is now being debugged & calibrated. I can barely wait to learn how to …