Makers Projects

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This week, Maker Jeffrey worked with our 3D printers and CAD software to model the [below] future tags for rentable-equipment barcodes, and to replace the extruder head on our sick Lulzbot TAZ6. That printer is up and running again, thanks to Jeffrey’s care! Maker Jordan is learning the CNC, in addition to her amazing photography… Read more »

University Day 2017

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 University Day was a success! Makers on University Day  had workstation set up with sonar rovers, VEX robotics, Mirrix weaving looms, a Raspberry Pi photo booth, and a MaKey MaKey + power glove Mario game for students to try out. Thanks for coming to our table! Come by the factory to experiment with more cool… Read more »

Birthdays!

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Celebrating April birthdays with individualized birthday cards created at The Factory with the Cricut!  

How to take an image from 2D to 3D

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For this tutorial we will be making a 3D representation of this image: Credit: Saffron Blaze, Wikimedia Commons Being able to take a picture of an item and turn it into a 3D model can be a very useful skill. This is a multi-step process that begins with the picture, then utilizes photo editing programs,… Read more »

Highlight Of the Week Jordan!

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My name is Jordan Barrett, I am a freshman student at UNT studying Computer Science engineering. As a computer science, major I focus primarily on coding and algorithms, my background in the military gave me a lot of experience with electrical engineering side of things. Both are what drew me to the factory, I felt… Read more »
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