Lab Built Air Dryer Completed
Member Greg Southerland has completed his heatless air dryer for use with the compressed air system within the lab. Its a really great build that will help the lab out a lot when it comes to plasma cutting and also general pneumatic tool use at the lab. The build is really cool using simple parts...
Project BACON Looking for Alpha Testers
TX/RX’s Open Source Project to develop a low power solar based GPRS/GSM remote sensor platform is reaching alpha testing. We are looking for some people with electronics design/coding experience who would like to participate in determining the features and changes the project needs to go to Beta testing and produce something that will be useful...
New Laser Cutter
The list of the tools at the lab has gotten a little longer recently and while we dont often post about what we have added one addition that deserves to be mentioned is the new Laser Cutter in the lab. We are pretty excited about this addition as it is one of the easiest, fastest,...
Spring 2012 Class Schedule Finalized
The Spring 2012 Class Schedule is in its final form and is being printed and readied to be published. The class list will be posted to the website in the coming week. There are tons of exciting new classes such as: Welding I & II Intro & Advanced Arduino Knitting Pottery Programming in C/Java/Python Intro...
Saving the Drill Press
A minor mishap killed the Labs drill press. Determined to revive it we set out to rewind the AC motor by hand. This must have been a labor of love because rewinding motors is no easy chore. After rewinding it 3 times due to some minor mishaps in the winding process ( a nick in...
Fall Class Schedule Posted
The Fall Class Schedule for TX/RX Labs is finally up! We have a lot of exciting courses being taught by our members and friends which we hope will help others gain the knowledge and skills they need to do bigger and better things or just learn more about those topics in which they always had...
Flame Speaker Lights Up
A recent milestone was reached, for a Flame based Loudspeaker project being spearheaded by Kelly O’Brien, that TX/RX hopes to share with the world soon. The speaker had its first proof of concept test which proved exceedingly successful. Video Here: Flame Speaker! With this step the project should ramp up and hopefully we will have...
Comp Sci @ TX/RX
We have ventured into the mechanical and electrical arts quite extensively and now it is time to give the same treatment to computer science! So TX/RX Labs has formed a group focused on teaching computer science and exchanging knowledge and ideas within the comp sci space. The group meets regularly with some meetings focused on...
Arduino Adventures
This Saturday’s Arduino Class was a huge success, we filled up the lab and taught a lot of new folks how to start hacking with Arduinos. Hopefully this will just be the beginning of their adventures into microcontrollers and soon we will have exciting projects they have completed to post about. More Arduino courses are...
CNC Plasma Table Installed
The equipment keeps heading our way, a fancy new cnc plasma table was generously put on extended loan to the space. A spacious 4×4 feet with automatic z axis height adjustment it will open new doors for fabrication and if that doesn’t work we can just plasma cut through them. Come on down on a...
CGOL Matrix Installed
After a lot of soldering the first panel of the Led matrix at the lab went in today. Conway’s game of life will initially be displayed on it with the game playing out over a couple of days. Hopefully with all the things we learned adding more boards will be easy since we will have...
Wall of Hack Project Milestone Completed
The Wall of Hack project a RFID libe heartbeat visualizer that also serves to allow new members to learn the labs capabilities while also adding their own mark to the lab, has met its first Milestone Stage. Wanjun Zhang led up the prototyping of the first box which mean the pcb is being produced in-house...