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 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
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)
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,...
Phytoremediation Paper Pancake Science Sunday
Howdy All, This sunday for Pancake Science, there will be science. Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to remediate environmental disasters rather than the more disruptive method of excavation. On sunday, we’ll attempt to make our own paper implanted with seeds from plant species that are known to be useful in phytoremediation. When: Pancakes...
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...
Wall of Hack Completed!
Beneath Conway’s Game of Life resides Tx/Rx Lab’s Wall of Hack. The box consists of a RGB LED, designed and printed PCB, CNC milled aluminum faceplate, and of course a healthy dose of bit banging and programming. This starter project allows for every member to personalize Tx/Rx labs with their own hacker handle and unique...
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...
First CNC Repaired
Great news! The first of our large CNCs, the Bergmaster VTC-150 Vertical Mill has been repaired. Basically a couple of relays needed to be rebuilt and some limit switched needed to be replaced and then bam! it was up and running. We are in the process of learning the controls and getting the correct tooling....