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MakeHaven is for

INventors

The perfect place to create and get feedback on your early prototype or just engage with a community of people working on the frontiers of technology.

Hobbyists

Connect with others who share your passion. Share the skills you have developed expand your horizons.

ARTISANS

Experiment with new medium and challenge your ideas to create something unique. Hone woodworking, sewing or printmaking skills.

 

 

 

 

The tools to make anything! 

 

Wood shop

Full workshop with all the equipment  including: table saw, band-saw, CNC, lathe,  planer and hand tools.

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Metal SHop

Full metal working shop with saws, vertical mills, CNC machine, waterjet cutter, lathes, welding, jewelry making and blacksmithing.

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Textiles & Sewing

Sewing Machines, quilting machine, knitting machine, computerized embroidery and an area to layout and cut large fabrics.

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Ceramics & Plastics

Pottery wheel, and a kiln for pottery. Pressure pot and vacuum chamber to support casting. Vacuum former, injection molder, resin 3d printer, grinder and compression oven for plastics.

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MakeHaven is a full makerspace and Fab Lab. 

Digital Fabrication

Many 3d printers, laser cutters, CNC milling machines, access to design software and more.

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Electronics & Radio

Electronics workbench with oscilloscopes, soldering station, reflow oven, and ham radio with antennas on the roof.

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Media & Printmaking

Presses for woodblock, screen printing capabilities and a media room built for podcast and product photography.

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HOME BREWING & BIO

MA computerized home brewing system and Community Bio Lab capable of work with DNA and growing bio materials. 

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Remote Control Car build

I'm forming a small project team to customize a remote control car.

Specifically, I propose we design a car from chassis up and fabricate much of it using the makerbots and laser cutters. I'd like to recruit someone(s) with electronics expertise to help with custom circuitry.

These cars are really cool. I've built a 1/18 scale electric that hit 60. We could exceed that, if the team is determined.

Perfect "vehicle" to learn more about Inventor and the makerbots. I'm thinking weekly meetings, but I'm open to ideas. I'm also flexible on project goals.

Ribbon Cutting Rocket

We are having our relaunch monday and we want the mayor to have something better than a regular ribbon cutting to kick it off.

One idea is to build a simple air powered rocket. We could decorate it with MakeHaven bling and fly it into a tower of cans or something? 

There are some great plans out there but they would take some work (for example:http://blog.makezine.com/projects/make-compressed-air-rockets-kit/)

 

Arduino Matrix

My computer science teacher and I are trying to make and program an led matrix, (possibly like 5 X 5 or a little bigger). We started off with a scrolling 1 X 5 led matrix, but that the letters were pretty difficult to read and it was too simple, so we moved on to a srolling 2 X 5 matrix. However, that was still pretty dificult to read and didn't look great either. Neither of us have much experience with the hardware for excedding the maximum number of output pins.

3d circuit printer

<p>Get Reprap working properly (calibration and everything)</p> <p>Possibly add additional extruder(s). Experiment printing with conductive polymers to make 3d circuit components.</p> <p>This is just for fun for now, but maybe this might give way to a more versatile form of 3D printing.</p> <p>Open to any suggestions.</p>

DIY Stedicam

Guys,

Is anyone interested in building their own StediCam? I just threw one together last weekend. Some specialty parts like gimbals and bearings would have to be preordered so I'd need a commitment. I think its doable for under 30 or 40 bucks. I would try to do this before Christmas season fires up.

 

eGFP Beer

Last meeting (9/11/12) we discussed making fluorescent, glowing beer by making yeast that produce one of the common fluorescent tags. I've poked around on the internet some and there a few considerations about the possibility of making this: