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...
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,...
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...
Soldering Success
Our first soldering class was a huge success! We had tons of new people out to learn the basics and hopefully start a journey into creativity with electronics. The time flew by but by the end everyone was already pro, most of the participants assembled kits looked better than mine did which os probably a credit to...
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...
March Hack-B-Q Series
What’s a Hack-B-Q? Think free B-B-Q with the added bonus of getting to share knowledge with TXRX Members who have expertise in exciting DIY technology projects. And that’s just for starters: There are tons of exciting projects in progress and members with expertise in chemistry, electrical engineering, biology, physics, programming, mechanical engineering, and many others, all...
CNC
Thanks to one of our members, Tx/Rx Labs has a new tool at its fingertips: a CNC-2520 from CNCDIY! One of our goals here at Tx/Rx Labs is to obtain bigger and better tools to enable Tx/Rx members to work on projects that would be hard to build at home and impossible in an apartment. The addition of the CNC-2520...
Kickstarter Update
We here at Tx/Rx Labs have been raising money to help us move into a new location through kickstarter.com. Check out our page at http://kck.st/d2plX0. As luck would have it two Tx/Rx members have generously signed a lease for a warehouse location and have given us a very fair sublease. We set a goal of...
Fusion Promo Video
Fusion Promo Rough Draft from Jacob Shiach on Vimeo. Fusion Promo Rough Draft from Jacob Shiach on Vimeo.
James on Tech Bytes
On April 1st, one of our members was able to get a few minutes on the Houston radio show “Technology Bytes” and shared the good word of the Collective with some of their listeners. We were also invited to intermingle with their “Geek Gathering” as our meetings are on the same evening. {audio}mp3/jamestb.mp3{/audio} Hopefully this...