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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Houston Super Secret Science Club Meeting @ TX/RX Labs
This friday May 13th in conjunction with our normal open house our friends @ the Houston Super Secret Science Club meetup group will be getting together at the lab. The secret Science Club is a fun group dedicated to learning more about science and technology from each other and the local Houston community. Everyone should...
Introducing 5 Minutes of Fame
Starting this Friday we are going to be instating a thing called “5 minutes of fame”, which is just a fancy way of saying Show & Tell, at every other open house. To sign up, just fill out this form any time before the event(time is limited, so sign up earlier). For this Friday we...
TX/RX Spring Classes Posted
Tx/Rx has announced its spring class lineup. Lots of exciting classes for the enthusiastic novice or even the advanced hacker. We hope you will find something that you will find both enlightening and exciting. Here is a list of the classes offered, please follow this link to register or get more info. Hope to see...
New Tools
Just a small but interesting update, two of our members acquired some interesting new tools which may need a little work to get working, but will be worth the effort. These are some incredible machines that we as a group are lucky to have access to. Our biggest challenge will be to obtain 3 phase power for these beasts. A challenge which...