Interview with Irish Radio
Last night, I had the honor of an interview with Irish Radio show IT Freely. I discussed hackerspaces in general, Pumping Station: One, and the nanotech and Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope...
View ArticleElectron Microscope Project highlighted by MAKE Blog
A quick note: my open source Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope project has been mentioned in the MAKE blog.
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15 minute hacks! Light box
One day after a Pumping Station: One meeting, Patrick and I arbitrarily set ourselves to making a light box. This is what ensued. The design was completely ad hoc and the workmanship was...
View ArticleThing-A-Day Month: Day 1
Thing-A-Day is a month long creative sprint where you have to make something new every day. Some of us here at Pumping Station: One are going to be participating. We’ll be logging our efforts here —...
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Workshop Build Out – Take One
PS:One has recently expanded its space and will be moving the workshop into a separate room to accommodate more tools and electronics. Today, a bunch of people got together to build some new...
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Yarn words (and acronyms)
Quick crafting project: yarn words (and acronyms). Found this at Craft, but here are the full instructions. I couldn’t find any wire reinforced clothesline, so experimented with thermostat wire and...
View ArticleMaking Parts for a Replica Daft Punk Helmet
Nick’s latest project is a replica daft punk helmet. With some help from Dan and his PhlatPrinter Nick was able cut out some parts from his Google SketchUp Design. Dan made a short video of what they...
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Shell Casing Pen
It is impossible to buy presents for my dad. I’ve exhausted my repertoire of gifts. I pride myself on giving fantastic gifts, but the man seems hell-bent on flabbergasting me. So, when I finally...
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Scanning Electron Microscope Update
Back in January, we got word that Philip Strong, a past member of PS:One, worked for a company that needed to get rid of a working scanning electron microscope and was considering donating it to...
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Pictures from the Scanning Electron Microscope
A few nights back, Brian and I took some images from the SEM. We exported them into TIF format, and then copied them via Sneakernet, a.k.a. using 3.5″ floppy disks and a portable USB floppy reader. I...
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Last Night’s CNC Build Club
We had a great meeting last night. We had over a dozen people working together to wire up a CNC control box. At one point we had three soldering irons going at the same time. Here is the pile of...
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SEM, EDX and fun with liquid nitrogen
Our scanning electron microscope came with an Oxford Isis EDX detector that we were told was non-functional. After a little poking around, I discovered that the replacement power supply which...
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ShapeOko!
For the past few months, my CNC Build Club project has been building a <a href=”http://www.shapeoko.com/”>ShapeOko CNC mill</a> from a kit Jeff donated to PS:One to replace the machine...
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Lock Picking and SEM
Back in October, Pumping Station: One hosted an event called Locktoberfest, an annual event run by the Chicago chapter of TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers.) It features, well, lockpicking,...
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CNC Steampunk Harp – Part 1
Side view of harp with pockets routed For the past year, Elizabeth and I have been collaborating on a project using the amazingly cool CNC tools at Pumping Station: One. The goal: to build a harp....
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Bike Night – Fixing bikes in February
Hello everyone! It’s been cold. It’s been snowy. But some of you people are still riding your bicycles. Being cold and snowy doesn’t stop the need for maintenance. Every other week is Bike Night...
View ArticleFirst Hackaday Prize Session
We just ended out first meeting which consisted of an overview of the contest, introductions, individual skill sets and brainstorming project ideas. So far, we are going to do something involving...
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Liquid Nitrogen – Part 1
Liquid nitrogen (LN2) rocks. Yes, officially speaking, I need to get liquid nitrogen at PS:One so that we can do serious sciencey stuff, like, say, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy on the scanning...
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Laser Collage: An art form for and from the hacker/maker community
Art Sharks by Shellie Lewis, paper collage and laser technology, 6×8 inches, 2014. Every artist hopes to come up with an original idea, to be on the forefront of the next big idea or movement. This is...
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Laser cut some simple masks for Halloween
There are a lot of online mask patterns that can be printed and cut out with scissors, but it would be much nicer to laser cut one. Let the laser do the hard work. I did these four mask designs...
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