Help Us Create a Community Art Project

Update:  Still planning to do this but it is delayed due to COVID situation. Framingham MakerSpace, with the support of the mayor’s office, is organizing an art project created by members of the community at large. We will be installing a field of crochet flowers in the Arlington Street Park on May 2. Everyone is … Continue reading Help Us Create a Community Art Project

Guatemala School Woodshop Update

Guatemala School Woodshop Update  

Yarn Flower Community Art Project

Yarn Flower Community Art Project Update:Still planning to do this but delayed due to COVID. Framingham MakerSpace, with the support of the mayor’s office, is organizing an art project created by members of the community at large. We will be installing a field of crochet flowers in the Arlington Street Park in May. Everyone is … Continue reading Yarn Flower Community Art Project

Guatemala School Project

Recently, Framingham MakerSpace members provided tools and labor to establish a woodworking shop and taught Scratch computer programming at Bendición de Dios, a non-profit private school in Alotenango, Guatemala.  While there, we visited some homes and were appalled at the living conditions.  Rusted corrugated steel walls and roof, dirt floors, chickens and dogs roaming throughout, … Continue reading Guatemala School Project

Member Group Project – Pirate Printing

Printing tee shirts from man hole covers in the street.  Of course we had to do it in the middle of the night when there wasn’t any traffic.   This small cover was loose so…

Guatemala school project

Guatemala school project Recently, Framingham MakerSpace members provided tools and labor to establish a woodworking shop and taught Scratch computer programming at Bendición de Dios, a non-profit private school in Alotenango, Guatemala.  While there, we visited some homes and were appalled at the living conditions.  Rusted corrugated steel walls and roof, dirt floors, chickens and … Continue reading Guatemala school project

Pill Bottle LED POI

This project is a beginner LED POI that can be built for under $25 for a pair (if you scrounge a few parts). It uses an RGB LED with ping pong ball for diffuser, 9 volt battery, Arduino pro-mini (or nano) and 3-axis accelerometer board.  It teaches the basics of connecting things to the Arduino, … Continue reading Pill Bottle LED POI

LED POI with 9-axis IMU and wireless link

More advanced LED POI we are working on include 9-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) (3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyro, 3-axis magnetometer).  We coupled this with a wireless transciever to send data back to a computer while we’re spinning.  The goal is to use this feedback to show us how the sensors are responding to various motion … Continue reading LED POI with 9-axis IMU and wireless link

Raku Pottery

This past fall we built a propane fired Raku kiln, made clay tiles and fired them. It was an ambitious project since we had never done Raku pottery before. Researching this project taught us a lot and brought some great people into our maker community.   The burner is a high-heat model which has been … Continue reading Raku Pottery