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Embroidery Demonstration
A demonstation of the sewing / embroidery machine at the Makerspace in action. The unit is a Brother SE400. The video is running at 2x speed and a thread change has been edited out.
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Makerbot Demonstration
The Makerbot Replicator 2, in action, making a souvenir coin.
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Etching Glass using Vinyl Stencils
Hi, My name is Freeman. 😊 I joined Makerspace around May 2021. My first experience with Makerspace was the open house which occurs three or four times a week. Mike, one of the members of the space, gave me a tour. I was impressed by all the cool projects on display and the excellent tools
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Aluminium Casting Transmission Repair
My employer asked if I was able to assist him in fixing a transmission housing. A small piece had broken off where a bolt fastens the transmission housing to the engine. The broken piece was long gone, so we were left with no other choice but to fabricate a new one. Step 1 : Sculpt Broken
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Another Interactive Art Project
A local artist, David Burton, asked if I could add some electronics to his art so that it will play a song when a person stands in front of it. So of course I immediately set to work on making a shopping list of parts and built a prototype. Luckily there is already a single
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Custom Wooden Thread Spool Wall Hanger
Another great project built by one of our members, Steve Newell: I have a commercial sewing machine and I make big stuff, which means I go through a lot of thread. I couldn’t find a wall storage unit that would accommodate the bigger spools – all of them seemed geared to the smaller spools with
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Scratch Built Motorola 68000 Computer Project
A project by Melbourne Makerspace member, John Gay: My first computer was a TRaSh-80 (TRS-80) from Radio Shack for my 14th Birthday. As the name implies, it was an 8 bit computer based on the Z-80 microprocessor. It had a whopping 4K (4 thousand bytes) RAM and ran at somewhere around 1Mhz (1 million cycles per
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Wooden Urn Project
One of our members used the woodshop tools here at the Melbourne Makerspace to create a custom, wooden urn for his friend’s dearly departed dog, Bella. This shows a good use of the wood lathe and drill press in our wood shop. If you want to take a tour of our wood shop and the
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