The time has come to swap out your nice winter wheels for snows. Manchester Makerspace has the space and tools to make this process easy. ❅Winter is coming! While summer (or “all season”) tires are great for road grip and reduced noise in the warmer months, now is the time to swap your regular tires […]
Author Archives: Jack Skellington
Open House Tonight
No need to fear, we’re having our usual 6PM-8PM Open House tonight.
Jack is going hi-tech
Having fun in our ham shack with RTL-SDR
A perfect powder coat finish is within your reach
Applying and Curing Powdercoat Powder coating is a dry finishing process that uses electrostatic charges to apply powder paint to a substrate. The powder is then cured in an oven, which melts the powder and bonds it to the substrate. Applying Powdercoat The first step in applying powdercoat is to prepare the surface for coating. […]
Lasering Quartz Tiles
Laser on Quartz Played with Lazer on quartz interesting results 5 runs needed.Started three runs light not deep at all. Darker one low speed six runs. Now how to seal it?
Pookie’s ride
Mike made a new seat for Pookie, using solvent-welded acrylic. In my experience the acrylic will actually snap before the joint, if it’s done properly, using too much or moving anything before it’s cured will drastically weaken the weld. As far as holding up to stress over time we will see! I’ve had good experiences […]
Last hurrah for ISY994
FYI for all @here, our ISY994 automation controller is reaching end-of-support, see https://www.universal-devices.com/finalbye994/ We plan to continue to extend our makerspace automations, perhaps with the new Matter standard. Watch for updates here. Universal Devices (UDI) introduced the first ISY automation controller in 2007. The ISY-99 was a low-cost, embedded, and fully standalone home automation controller that was ahead of […]
Cruizing
Cruzing #downtownmanchester with the RC bean bag chair during the car show. Photo credit goes to new member Jared England
President
Effective February 20th, 2019 the office of president will be assumed by Manchester Makerspace Co-founder Steve Korzyniowski
Automating our Makerspace
Thanks to Universal Devices, we’re moving forward with automation for Manchester Makerspace! First area to be targeted will be our thermostats. With five different thermostats controlling heat and/or air conditioning, it’s been difficult to stay on top of our HVAC costs, even just seasonal changeover is a real effort. The ISY-994 is not a general […]