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(Image blatently stolen from United Chemi-Con website.  Thanks!)

United Chemi-Con is a company that manufactures and sells capacitors. Ben Lee works at the Huntsville branch, and will be coming to Makers Local to give a small presentation on capacitors, what they are, what they do, and how they are made. He will be bringing some large caps out with him for us to play with, as well as short video clips of the manufacturing process.

The presentation will be at 7:00 pm at one of our Tuesday Open Nights, June 19th, 2012

Makers local is located at 414 Stevens Ave, Huntsville, AL.

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We decided it might be bad to breathe the exhaust fumes from our 40 W hobby laser so a few members decided to do everyone a favor and rig up this elaborate duct system to make things a little safer for everyone.  Now instead of filling the shop with various gasses and particles it is blown out through this duct work and outside through the giant exhaust fan upstairs.  Safety first!

 

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I finally finished the turnable composter I made from an old, food-grade, plastic barrel for our garden at the shop.  All of the wood and wheels and parts I found at the shop so the total cost for this project was effectively zero.  The turn handle has gone through two different versions but might need a third version.  Now that it has been filled with super heavy, wet dirt and compost the weaknesses of the turn handle are clearly visible.  Feel free to give me some ideas for a better turn handle to turn the barrel over while filled with heavy dirt.

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Tonight on Hackerspace Digest Matt, Tim and Nathan talk about feet. You know because Freeside printed human feet. Also, they offer to send you packages and give you 3 whole random wiki finds. All this and more, on this fortnight’s Hackerspace Digest.

Show notes where you’d expect

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