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Next Thursday, January 28 at Makers Local I’ll be teaching a class on the basics of GIMP. It’s a very powerful tool for editing imagery and it’s free, which makes it ideal for enhancing photos or graphics work. For a one night class, I’m going to cover the most basic tools, and the [...]

Hello Makers!  This upcoming Tuesday, January the 19th @6:30, we’re having a class at the Shop to teach people the basics of Dungeons and Dragons, a classic nerd past time.  Jeff Powers, an experienced Dungeon Master will giving a presenation and showing us what nerds used to do for fun before there were internet connections.  [...]

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This Friday, at 6 pm we’re going to brew our own carbonated sodas at the Make Shop.  It’s a surprisingly easy process, and shouldn’t take longer than an hour or two to make about a gallon.  If you’re interested, all you need to bring is a clean bottle and some ingredients.  There are specific recipes [...]

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We’d like to thank all our guests who came out to our Hackerspace Meetup last weekend.  Everyone had a great food (special thanks to MudFlap) and a great time.  Crashcart is going to post videos of the talks onto youtube this weekend, and we’ll post them all here on the home page as soon as [...]

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Tomorrow, August 8th, we’re having two big events at Makers Local. The first is a class on the basics of screen printing.  I’ll be teaching the whole process from start to finish, drawing to image transfer to exposure to printing.  All the equipment is at the shop and the only thing you need to bring [...]

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