Upcoming Classes Glass Bottle Cutting Workshop December 17th @ 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intro Welding December 18 @ 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Intro Soldering December 22 @ 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Intro to CNC Routers January 19, 2017 @ 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM Intro Soldering January 26, 2017 @ 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Free Open Hack Nights! Every Friday Night 6pm-8pm
Bring a project and work on it in our Electronics Lab or Classroom Space. Share, meet, and collaborate with other makers.
(Note: Next year we will be calling these “Open Create Night” to avoid confusion. Originally named after Life Hacking and the focus on clever ways to make/repurpose stuff.)
Holiday Closure
The makerspace will be closed to non-members between December Sunday 25th 2016 and January 2nd 2017. If you need to contact us you can send an email to shop@portcitymakerspace.com, but our phones will not be answered during that time. Thanks!
Five non-profits, including our makerspace, were selected by the Fabulous Find this month of donations! For those that aren’t familiar with it, the Fabulous Find is a thrift store that dedicates its sales to supporting other non-profits related to the arts, environment, food pantry, fuel assistance, animal shelter and educational organizations.
The non-profits they select each month receive a portion of the sales generated during that month. A couple of us from the makerspace attended the kickoff meeting for this month and got to witness previous organizations receive checks of $7800 each!Help us this month by making your thrift store purchases at their shop!
Back by popular demand! Attendees learn to make simple soldered circuits at the Dover Public Library. Participants will use a hot soldering iron to melt solder and then fuse LED lights to a robot badge ornament for the tree or a light up 3D Christmas tree!
This workshop is already full up, but stay tuned on the library’s page and newsletter for more in the future!
Alex and Jeff will be doing a 3D Printing demo at Bad Lab Brewery in Somersworth! They will be talking all about how the custom-built 3D printer works, how they made it, and how easy it is to make a 3D print! Free to attend! Suggested donation of $8. Ages 21 and up.
One of our members has been doing regular DIY demonstration videos of several projects. You can see larger videos on his youtube channel, and lots of quick ones on his instagram at @residentmaker
Thanks to a generous donor we now have a nice big potter’s wheel, currently residing in our garage by the Bike Bench. This pairs greatly with our kiln, which we’ve had for about a year now. With these two combined you can now start making pots, mugs, jars, and more at the makerspace!
For those interested in learning we will soon have a class on working with clay and doing firings in our kiln. The potter’s wheel may require a one-on-one class, and will have to be scheduled by interest. If there’s a class you’d like to hear about when its scheduled, see our Class Waiting List page and fill out the form there.
New to this lineup is our Intro to Photoshop class, taught by Matthew Doherty. Matt works out of the Button Factory and has done a lot of digital editing work professionally. He has also done some impressive projects here such as a mobile changing room for surfing and refinishing a large canoe with fiberglass resin.
The Makerspace is looking for more volunteers for it’s Volunteer Program! Can you spare 4 hours a week to help out at a fun and creative community shop? Tell us when and how you can help! We offer a complimentary membership upgrade for members on the Port City Maker level, but for non-members we do credit towards either a month of membership or day passes. Sign up today and help out a great community resource!
Every year running we’ve hosted free costume-building workshops for folks, and this year is no different! We invite anyone working on their costume to come in and make it alongside others doing the same! We don’t require anything to attend, but we do encourage you to make a cash donation to help us continue doing events like this.
What you can use:
We have large space with 4 tables to lay out material and projects.
You can use hand tools we have at the shop like pliers, scissors, wrenches, screwdrivers, hot glue guns, heat guns, hammers, and others.
You can use machines like the 3D printers, sewing machines, and cordless drills.
We also have small amounts of scrap material on hand that you can use!c
We got a message from another cool makerspace in Portland called the Open Bench Project. They were talking amongst themselves and wanted to do a collaborative project with other makerspaces and came up with an interesting idea. They were thinking an inter-makerspace flying drone would be an interesting project to tackle. As you can imagine there’s a lot of considerations that come into play, so we are going to have a joint makerspace meeting soon to discuss the project. Some members from the makerspace will be going up to the OBP on May 6th at 4pm and we will have a group discussion and maybe some prototyping. Anyone interested in the project is welcome to come as well.
