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TX/RX Labs is on the move.

TX/RX Labs is on the move.

In the last nine months, our student body and our membership have more than doubled. It’s time to move to a larger space. Help us build the community workshop, education center and startup incubator that the Space City deserves. In the last nine months, our student body and our membership have more than doubled. It's...
Project Spotlight: Cyclekart

Project Spotlight: Cyclekart

Stephen Cameron looks like he’s been having more fun than a barrel of Donkey Kongs building and riding his cyclekart. Per cyclekarts.com, “Cyclekarts are small, lightweight, nimble machines made by their drivers for the pursuit of motoring sport. They’re not serious speed-machines or status-generating show cars. They’re purely for the gritty fun and satisfaction of tearing around in...
Project Spotlight: Flux Clockpacitor

Project Spotlight: Flux Clockpacitor

The intrepid adventurers of our Temporal Archaeology Team have returned from a parallel timeline in which they personally witnessed President Tesla’s WWI victory against Otto Mecha Bismarck in laser glove combat. Perusing the raucous markets of the floating slum-ships of Manchester-Above-London, they discovered this curious trinket: the Flux Clockpacitor.           Materials...
Project Spotlight: Dead Lawyers (and Nelson Mandela)

Project Spotlight: Dead Lawyers (and Nelson Mandela)

  One of our members recently decided to spruce up his law office with something handmade, beautiful, and marginally subversive. Using the Lab’s CNC plasma torch, the member cut plate steel silhouettes of five notable – and revolutionary – attorneys: Cicero, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, Franz Kafka and Nelson Mandela. The final product, when finished,...