Monday, November 14, 2011
This weekend we got up to some photography development, watch the video or come along to space and check it out. Also we have the CNC cutting again on aluminum.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
We made the second home made foundry with an old propain tank and fire extinguisher watch video for some instructions on build. Took around 25 minutes to melt first block of stainless and then took another 5 minutes per extra bock we added. we have break down of build under images below.
Started today with more screen printing making up stencils on acetate. Process involved was a follows. Make up design in photoshop, gimp or any of your preferred design program. Print off on black and white acetate as dark as possible your design (no to much detail, you get away with some) Take prepared screen with [...]
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Next Saturday 5th November, we’re holding our regular open social from about 7pm till late. All welcome. If you haven’t been in to see the space, this is a great opportunity to visit, meet the TOG gang and other visitors. We’ll have music and the rubens tube going, and maybe the bbq too. Plus whatever [...]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Bought a screen today and started to play with it works really well. Just a matter of printed off a design and made up a stencil out of plastic or event paper. Stuck to back of screen and then run the screen + paint over it worked quite well here are some test we ran [...]
This was part of this months hackathon, to build a marshmallow shooter . This weekends Hackathon went very well with us building a high powered marshmallow gun running off an air compressor and running through a 1″ pipe. Check out the video below for how it was built and to see it working. High [...]