My name is Jena Chakour, and I am a double major junior in Anthropology and Applied Behavior Analysis, with minors in French and Classics. Coming back from an out of state internship to learn that UNT now had a Makerspace, I was immediately smitten. The Factory channels my curiosity in hands-on projects; my skill areas… Read more »
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 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 »
Celebrating April birthdays with individualized birthday cards created at The Factory with the Cricut!
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 »
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 »
One of my favorite machines to play with in The Factory would have to be the Cricut. We have created so many awesome projects with this di-cut machine. The Cricut is a computerized di-cut machine, where you can upload images that you would like to cut out and it can perfectly cut them out for… Read more »
My name is Josh Zamudio, I am a sophomore at UNT. I am an Electrical Engineer major, with minors in Math and Computer Science & Engineering. I would say that I am innately curious. I am a CNC Machinist, a beginner in programming, and a micro-controller enthusiast among many many other things. I have worked… Read more »
TinkerCAD is a free web-app based introductory 3D modeling program designed specifically for use with 3D printers and to create models that can be 3D printed, although it can also be used for more general purpose 3D modeling. Despite the fact that TinkerCAD an introductory program it is actually quite versatile in what you can… Read more »
John has been working on an Radio Controlled (RC) Aircraft, which is getting its final beauty treatments soon! We will present an in-depth feature post of the entire RC aircraft project in March, so stay tuned. To brief, RC aircraft is a term that is generally used to describe model airplanes that are built as… Read more »
