| RECENT NEWS All News (most recent at top) | His Employee Party Is Better Than Yours (Monday, Jan 13th - hg ) |  (Nailed It) Check out these great name plates that DMS member Mark Berkely put together for his employers holiday party! After a little time in the wood shop and some experimenting on the lasers, Mark got a nice finished project. Good job keeping it creative, Mark!
| It's Ski Season! (Monday, Jan 6th - hg ) |  (Gotta Get Those Skis Waxed ) Check out this project in the making by DMS member, Nathan! After deciding he would build his own waxing station for his skis, he got to work figuring how his bench would fold away. With a little elbow grease it looks like this project is coming along nicely.
| Industrial Sewing (Thursday, Jan 2nd - hg ) |  (Broken? Fix it. ) Duluth Makerspace member, Kyle C, learning how to run one of our industrial sewing machines. In addition to this machine, we also have anther walking foot sewing machine and industrial surger machine.
Interested in putting together that canvas tent for winter camping, or fixing the boundary water pack that you've had for year? Come down to the Makerspace and use our industrial sewing room!
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| | UPCOMING CLASSES & EVENTS See All | Today
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Jan 28th | Class: Woodshop 101 (6:00pm-8:00pm)[$25]
A basic introduction into the wood-shop and the tools available. | This
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Jan 31st |  Event: Volunteer Forced Labor Camp (5:00pm-7:00pm)[$0]
A group labor session to get bigger projects done. No skills required! All help appreciated.
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Feb 3rd |  Meeting: Board (7:00pm-7:00pm)
Closed Board Meeting | Next
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Feb 6th |  Class: Intro to 3D Printing (6:00am-8:00am)[$17]
This class will introduce you to 3D printing with a short primer on how it works. Then you will be guided on arranging your model and printing it on one of the shop printers to take home. | Next
Friday
Feb 7th |  Class: Intro to the X-Carve CNC (6:00pm-8:00pm)[$23]
Learn how to run the X-Carve CNC router. You will be guided through designing a small project then learning how to set up the X-Carve to cut your project out of wood. | Next
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Feb 10th | Meeting: Member (6:30pm-8:30pm)
Standard Member Meeting, held the second Monday of every month. If you have subject matter for the meeting please submit at duluthmakerspace@gmail.com. See you there! Agenda to be sent a week prior, to all current members . |
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| Frequently Asked Questions: |
Q: What is a MakerSpace?
A: A Cooperative Workshop, run like a fitness gym, where a monthly membership pays for shared access to tech tools, electronics, woodshop, metalshop, techshop, crafts, classrooms, fabrics, etc! Similar places have been sprouting up across the country. They are a real community asset driving innovation, education and cooperation. Our biggest asset is the other members. | Q: Who is running this?
A: A loose knit group of about 30 very enthusiastic member-volunteers who aspire to endlessly improve and creatively use our 11,000sqft building. Over half of the equipment is on loan or donated from members! The remainder is currently privately funded to keep us well stocked. |
Q: How long have you been running?
A: We bought the building end of 2014, and volunteers have been tirelessly working on improving the space since then. We had our grand opening September 17th, 2016. | Q: Who is the place for?
A: All ages (18+ for non-class-based solo access), Women and Men, Anyone who is curious, who wants to learn new things from enthusiastic people. Anyone who is artistic or otherwise creatively inclined. Anyone who likes to create things but may not have room at home for all the various tools needed. Anyone wanting to take or teach classes on a wide range of subject matters. |
Q: Do you have tool X or can you support hobby X at the shop?
A: If we do not already have the tools we will look into finding a way to integrate it into our offerings. We encourage you to help us gear up and teach the equipment! Our equipment list is helpful. | Q: I'm interested! What are ways I can be involved?
A: Come take a tour. Become a Member. Come volunteer working on space. Donate or lend some needed equipment or funds. Join our facebook page. Tell a friend. Come take a class. Anything is appreciated! |
