3D PRINT-A-THON

March 5th, 2013

Saturday Artengine hosted a 3D Print-a-thon, to celebrate the Lab’s 2 new machines, The Ultimakers, and get the community inspired by inviting the region’s best 3D print enthusiasts to bring their machines, their designs, and their expertise to share with all comers. The M70 Lab was crushingly packed all day with over 400 people passing […]

Mod Lab’s March 2nd Recap

March 9th, 2011

Jean-Marc LeBlanc demoed his hack to an Evalbot, a mobile robotic evaluation board for the Stellaris microcontroller, that allows him to host a webpage on a USB stick on the back of this rolling robot. I’d never seen a website that could run away from me before and I do so hope to again. How […]

Mod Lab’s January 19th Recap

January 26th, 2011

Last Wednesday’s meetup was a busy one- Andrew Plumb brought in the Lego-compatible disc buttons he created for wearable circuits along with skeletal Lego cages, one of which is designed to be printed out with working hinges! The disc buttons snap together and have small holes thoughtfully placed with which one can put conductive thread […]

Mod Lab’s December 1st Meetup

December 13th, 2010

A call was put out a month or so ago for artists to submit project proposals to use Artengine’s Makerbot to aid in the fabrication of their work. Chayle Cook, an Ottawa-based artist specializing in jewelery, printmaking and book art has been working intensely on modeling a new ring design using Blender, a free open […]

Mod Lab’s October 22nd Meeting Recap

October 25th, 2010

When Paul Mumby mentioned he had made a 3D printer at the last meetup I had assumed he meant he had procured and built a Makerbot. THAT ASSUMPTION WAS WRONG. Paul brought in his homemade 3D printer to our meetup and got it happily extruding before night’s end. In Paul’s words: “I spent about 3 […]

Mod Lab’s October 6th Meeting Recap

October 8th, 2010

Awesome turn out to Wednesday night’s meetup; Nigel Vezeau brought in and demoed a few of his projects, Andrew Plumb instructed a group on the Makerbot, Derek Ledoux and Justin Dempsey from the Ottawa indie gamer group the Dirty Rectangles came and made LED throwies and I brought in an electronic toy I made with Jimmie […]

Building A Cupcake – Part 1

May 9th, 2010

It was with some excitement that a dozen people showed up on Wednesday night to start putting together Artengine’s very own MakerBot Cupcake CNC, a desktop 3D printer. The kit starts out as a few boxes of laser-cut wood parts, and large assortment of nuts, bolts, rods, circuit boards, and wires. The build initially started […]