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 November 17th Meeting Recap

November 24th, 2010

At our meeting last Wednesday Richard Briggs, one of Ottawa’s makers from the first Maker Faire and member of the Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa or HPVOoO, brought in some of the electroluminescent wire he had been working with to create an EL-wired human powered train for the Help Santa Toy Parade put on […]

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 […]

Mod Lab’s September 22nd Meeting Recap

September 27th, 2010

Last Wednesday featured the making of a super sensitive sound to light converter from CanaKit and talks of interesting hacks to the Roomba and Spykee. Guy told us an interesting tidbit on knowing if a battery still has a charge- just…stick your tongue on it. Since the body is conductive you’ll either get a little […]

Mod Lab’s September 8th Meeting Recap

September 11th, 2010

The meetup of hackers and makers at the first Mod Lab of September had a few people working on testing Infrared LED’s and others talking about the upcoming Electric Fields festival and projects that will be featured there. Guy, an electrical engineer that makes robots in his spare time and member of the Ottawa Robotics […]

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 […]

Then and now

February 12th, 2010

Dennis Stec has been a dedicated volunteer at Artengine in the last few years,. He helped us build the M70 Lab, install Nite Ride and did tech at Electric Fields. Seeing as he’s an old timer I thought it would be great if he started to also contribute some of the aged perspective to our […]