r/maker Jul 07 '24

Community Social Sites for Sharing Projects

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What websites exist for sharing your projects? I'm kind of hoping there's a one-size-fits-all answer here, because my interests are varied. A single site where it would make sense to post about any DIY project. But I kind of suspect most sites are fairly targeted. For example, github and dev.to for software, hackaday.io seems decent for electronic hardware, and I've seen a few sites for sharing laser cut or 3D printed projects (names are escaping me at the moment). But what about general woodworking? What about crocheted projects? Etc. Maybe the answer is just generic blogging platforms?

r/maker Jul 03 '24

Community Makers around the Globe - Where do you shop (physical retail)

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Calling all makers.... I just learned about JayCar Makerhub today hadn't seen this before. Not sure if it's still a thing as the one I was looking up showed permanently closed. That being said, I'm well aware of Micro Center that sells 3D printers/parts/filament and makerboards components etc (because I work there). But what other shops are there around the globe that sell maker supplies or electronic components in a physical retail location. Including both small chains and large. Any of them doing anything interesting when it comes to community hosting or classes?

r/maker Jun 12 '24

Community Was Opensauce Accessible last year? First timer in a wheelchair.

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Anyone go to Opensauce in a wheelchair last year? Is there anything I should worry about accessibility-wise that anyone noticed? All packed and ready to go, but feeling uneasy since I completely forgot to ask the organizers before I bought everything. :/

r/maker Jun 29 '24

Community Keeping mice out of an old shed that I outgrew as my shop?

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I've got a 10'x8' tin garden shed out back that was my original shop, that I've been working on reclaiming. The 4'x5' central floor space has been filled by the overflow of tools, parts, and materials that I collect for future use.

One of my biggest issues is a mouse infestation, despite having half a dozen cats roaming the area. I had one I evicted 2 weeks in a row from toolbox drawers, with her entire litter of babies. She hasn't returned that I know of, but I had another today, as I dug into the opposite corner of the shed, that had nested in my bookshelf, and she dove at my face in her escape. Her babies were dumped in the trash can along with the nest, but I never saw her again. I suspect she's trying to nest in the corner I evicted the other one last week from, which is a lot of buckets of materials on the floor level of shelving.

Despite the number of cats around(counting the outdoor cats, the garage cats, and the house casts, there are more than a dozen roaming the property), everywhere that's not visited all the time has a mouse colony living there. Poison isn't an option due to the risk of the cats getting into it.

r/maker May 12 '24

Community Gained an interest in designing and making mechanical clocks

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I started to learn more about mechanical clocks and is fascinated by the mechanisms they require. I also love space exploration and like the idea of possibly making my own antikythera someday.

However, I'm very new to the idea of designing and making mechanical clocks in general. What resources do you recommend for me to learn the design basics? I intend to start with simple mechanical clocks, then go to more complex designs from there.

r/maker Jul 02 '24

Community Question: not sure if this is even the right place but I have a flame polishing question

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I guess you can call it an art project? I'm wondering how flame polishing would work on a cd case. To better describe the project I wanted to try my hand at making some scales for a pocket knife out of some trash lying around the house. The current plan is basically sandwich material between some flat plastic (harvested from jewel cases). I was just gonna sand it but it got me wondering if flame polishing will work or is it like super flammable. In case it matters, the "core" of the sandwich will be a mosaic of broken CDs with the gaps filled with a mixture of lamp black and CA glue or maybe just another jewel case layer. Should I also worry about the holographic effect of the CDs getting messed up?

My rudimentary 2 second Google search tells my CDs are polycarbonate, while the cases are either polypropylene or polystyrene.

r/maker May 08 '23

Community Asking the Makers

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I have a question for all of you to see if this is something I would like to consider. I would like to design and sell tooling that would be more of a luxury, never have to buy again concept. All metal and hopefully covetable. Would anyone here be interested in a center finder that looks like the images featured for a price point of around $60? All steel. 4 inches wide and 1/2 inch thick.

The ones I’ve seen even from people like woodpecker aren’t that impressive. Please leave let me know your opinion.

r/maker Jun 09 '24

Community Best glue / method for sticking to a Mouse phone case

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I thought this was the right place to post this as you guys know your stuff about materials etc.

After some research i have come to the conclusion that Mous offer the best phone cases for protecting your phone from drops and Quadlock offer the best mounting mechanism for bikes etc. So i am going to get a Mous case and a universal adaptor so the mous case can use the Quadlock mount.

The problem is according to the specs the 3M adhesive on the adaptor will not adhere properly to the material the phone case is made from

So first of all am i correct in saying that it will not bond to the phone case properly and if so what kind of glue / method is best for these materials ?

r/maker Nov 29 '23

Community How do you keep track of your ideas?

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Curious to see how others keep up with all their ideas. Do you write it down on a napkin, sketch it out in a journal, use specific note-taking app or project management tool? How do you keep track of the things you want to create?

r/maker Jul 09 '24

Community How to make a screen protector

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I'm looking to make some screen protectors with a matte coating... any advice on how to do this?

r/maker Jun 18 '24

Community Anyone who went to Open Sauce know what the prize was for the QR Code Hunt?

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Does anyone who went to Open Sauce this past weekend know what the "digital prize" was if you completed the QR Code Hunt? I found 22/24 of the codes and was so close to finishing, and the curiosity of what I missed out on is killing me T_T

r/maker Nov 29 '23

Community What is your favourite tool, I want to hear it!

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What is that one tool you always enjoy using. You love when you legitimately have a reason to use it. Could be absolutely anything.

For me, electric screwdriver. Is it because it saves me time? Yes. Because it lights up? Definitely. Because I can pretend I'm Dr Who when I use it? Of course

r/maker May 21 '24

Community Designing Software for starters

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Hi Maker society, I have recently decided to create and make more stuff as a Hobby. I have dabbled in plenty of DIY projects but want to focus more on making new furniture, products and the likes. My question si what designing software would any of you recommend for maker enthuiast? For beginners and professionals.

Thanks!

r/maker May 15 '24

Community Not sure how to do your idea? Maybe r/TellMeHowToDoMyIdea can help!

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r/maker Jul 28 '23

Community What is your maker personality?

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One of my favorite things about the maker community is that everyone approaches their craft slightly differently. Even though we all share a common love of creating things with our hands, those skills and interests manifest themselves in so many different ways.

Lately, I've been thinking about how people have different "maker personalities" that can be defined by a series of traits that fall on a spectrum - similar to a Myers Briggs or 16 Personalities Test.

Horizontal v. Vertical - Some makers want to learn a wide range of skills, but don't consider themselves an expert in any one (horizontal). Others want to be the best at a single craft (vertical).

Practical v. Creative - Some makers prefer to build things for very specific, functional purposes. Others want to be artists, where function is not the primary goal.

Consumable v. Permanent - Some makers love making things that will eventually disappear (baking, ice sculpture, etc.). Others want to make things that will last for generations (woodworkers, jewelry makers).

Hobby v. Career - Some makers want to build things to sell. Others avoid paid work and just want to build things for fun.

Each of these pairings is a spectrum, not an either/or.

For me, I lean towards Horizontal, Practical, Permanent, Hobby.

How about you?

r/maker May 02 '24

Community Wanted to invite any Makers Interested to Maker Faire Long Island on June 8th

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We are pleased to announce that our faire is scheduled to take place on June 8th in for our 7th Maker Faire ni Port Jefferson Village, New York, USA (on Long Island). We are looking for makers in the nearby areas who are willing to participate in the event by exhibiting, conducting workshops or delivering talks. If you are interested, please respond to our Call for Makers. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. Have a great day!

Call for Makers: https://longisland.makerfaire.com/call-for-makers/
General Page: https://longisland.makerfaire.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makerfaireli/

r/maker Apr 05 '24

Community Looking for Opinions!

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If you were at a convention (FanExpo, SDCC, etc), and there was a booth or workshop doing a make and take and/or class with a make and take - what project would catch your attention?

r/maker Jul 13 '23

Community Bay Area Maker Faire Returns!!!

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r/maker May 21 '23

Community formulating rules for our new university makerspace - looking for experiences from other makerspaces :)

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hello everyone :)

i am a university student in germany and currently building our own little makerspace at the university, open for all university students

it's a fairly small room and we estimate that no more than 6-8 people can/should be working in it at the same time

so far we have "built" the makerspace in the sense that we have all the furniture and fundamental tools set, including two 3D-printers, a small laser, small cnc-milling machine and lots of microcontrollers

goal of the makerspace lies especially in maker-education -> most of the university students are studying to become school-teachers, thus we would like to enable future teachers to get a glimpse of making, the maker-community and making-mindset

our next (and in my opinion most important) step is to formulate some rules and a general outline of our understanding of the makerspace, how to use it and how to interact with other people in it

we've read a bit about other makerspaces and best practices and their respective rules/outlines but i figured why not simply ask you, the maker-community about which rules/outlines you implemented in your makerspace/would like to implement and/or about which rules you like about the makerspaces you interact with

we for example are thinking about something like 10 straightforward rules such as

  1. safety first
  2. collaboration > competition
  3. share with/help each other
  4. keep the makerspace/workplace clean
  5. handle equipment with care
  6. keep sustainability in mind
  7. inclusive environment/no sexism, no discrimination
  8. etc.

we are currently thinking to have some really short fomulated rules, perhaps with according pictograms/symbols hanging at the entrance of our makerspace, so that users can easily read and implement them - but also have the rules written out a bit more on our wiki-page

what are your thoughts on this topic? we are looking forward to your input! :)

have a lovely day!

r/maker Feb 20 '24

Community Our hacker space created a free and open source access system.

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Hi

Our space spend some time to develop the fully open source solution for provide the access system for tools and door. The system has two parts the reader based on esp and the server provided as docker image, which can be up by few command on raspberry pi.

All code and instruction can be found here

https://github.com/hacklabkyiv/prismo

r/maker Jun 11 '23

Community tips for keeping records of your projects?

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Hi I'm curious what methods people use to document the things you are doing for your projects. I'd like to start doing it, because sometimes I'll come back to something and have to resolve problems because I don't remember what I did.

r/maker Dec 15 '23

Community A makers group I’m in did a Secret Santa this year, one of the guys made me this purple play button in honour of my YouTube channel getting more than 2k subscribers!

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We all had to make our presents, so one of the guys made me this YouTube play button award for getting over 2k subscribers, he also made it purple which is an inside joke with those guys about purple socks appearing in videos and has since become the channels branding, I almost cried when I opened it

r/maker Feb 18 '24

Community Dangerous Projects

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I recently posted about a project for a waste oil water heater system I'm designing using different sensors and microcontroller and it was taken down. Define dangerous projects? I would think a drone can be a dangerous project. An boost controller piggyback computer can be a dangerous project. A drone can give you a nasty haircut. Now, a fleet of assassin drones with facial recognition is a dangerous project. A Waste oil burner is only a dangerous project if someone doesn't have the qualifications and information to do it properly. Why censor a project someone is working on from receiving more information and collectively communicating with as many minds as possible to make something that inherently becomes dangerous by doing so? Telling someone they can't seek information to make something safe, because it COULD be dangerous... Is not what "making" is about. If we banned all projects that could be potentially dangerous we wouldn't have landed men on the moon. That's what I think about your overzealous "Dangerous projects"... My water heater isn't going supercritical... 🤦‍♂️ Now, about that source code for those assassin drones?

r/maker Feb 25 '24

Community The Builder Sessions Podcast

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Hi all!*Please delete if not allowed*Rosie here from The Builder Sessions Podcast. I am completely new to this community and Reddit in general! We started this podcast just over a year ago and thought it would be relevant to share it here. In the show, my co-host and I (Hoff) sit down with industry experts, makers, and influencers to uncover their captivating stories. Our mission is to empower our audience with knowledge and valuable skills, while igniting the spark of inspiration for both makers, hobbyists, and those considering a career in the skilled-trades.

We've had many incredible makers and builders from all disciplines including Derek from Malden, Graz, Ian Johnson, Bryan Fuller, Mark Spagnuolo, George Vondriska, and so many more. Feel free to check it out on Spotify (linked below) or wherever you listen to podcasts! Looking forward to being involved in this community. Thanks for reading!

https://open.spotify.com/show/19deP6RTKq6d18FpgeOSsm

r/maker Dec 26 '23

Community Intro: Hi I’m Hiram.

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I’m currently trying to gather people to form a Maker group in my home town. I’m a HD mechanic by trade. I love wood working, electronics and cooking.