portal Aperture Science theme with the
walls this time let's see it looks like
we're going online soon we've got we got
a hammer space on the other line that
we're gonna join here in a moment I'm
trying to find where their volume is so
let's see here looks like we're going
online you got stuff working and we're
not gonna start the official stream
until 6:30 so if you're joining us
already
hey Nikhil ok Sasha eccentric Knut we
are on we are on so we have a little bit
of time before we start in earnest
because we need to wait for a few things
to line up first so we've got about 4
minutes 4 minutes before the official
tour of camera space hey Doug southeast
Missouri nice to see you there I'm glad
everything's working smoothly things
working smoothly I don't see I don't see
where volume hopefully you'll be able to
hear them if anybody knows how to adjust
Skype volume it's make a Jim we're gonna
be doing a tour of hammer space workshop
it's a City Missouri in just a moment
thanks to digikey.com ER space on my
other monitor I don't know how to mute
them in Skype because I don't use Skype
a whole lot and we'll just put up with
it for now
sorry pigments made wonderful to see you
on here and a light from Paris nice to
see you as well Doug so we have about
two more minutes about two more minutes
before we start the tour of hammer space
workshop in Kansas City Missouri and I
can see it over here on my monitor this
place is incredible
now I'm muted they can't hear me talking
about them makers Mike yeah you live
close by well you could have been there
you could still be I'll bet you could be
there before the stream is over because
we're gonna start the stream in about
two minutes when I start the tour I mean
in about two minutes if you can hear me
Sasha
oh yeah it's hammer time tool time you
need whatever that means we're about to
get started
still we're gonna get started here
everybody's hello Anthony's alright
address can a person ever so hopefully
they don't say anything they don't know
we can okay okay so we are about one
minute out we're still just kind of
warming everything up but we are live
people are watching we have I don't know
maybe like 40 or 50 people connected
right now watching already but we're not
officially started yet
Luka is from Poland thanks for joining
us let's see here so um I'm gonna do a
quick intro here welcome to our
makerspace live series Doug hurry up
Doug is four blocks away he's gonna hurt
any to try to get there before the
tour's over so let me let me get the
intro done welcome to our makerspace
live series presented by make and digit
key I want to give a big thanks to digit
it means so much to us that they were
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happen as as an act of goodwill towards
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saying we have to promote their
individual products digi-key is saying
promote the community grow the community
and that's good four digit key so I'm
going to say thank you to digit key for
sponsoring this this is incredible this
is wonderful I'm so happy and let's get
started let me switch the views here and
we will start our tour of in Kansas City
Missouri
so hi you know that's why we have all of
these resources is so people can make
really awesome stuff here we have you
know you can't go to maker space without
seeing all kinds of 3d printing I'm sure
everyone in this speed is more than
familiar but we like to take those 3d
prints here at the space and rub some
traditional art on them so that we can
take things that are designed digitally
and transform them into metal objects or
rubber objects or other sorts of
materials that you don't traditionally
think of being from a 3d print example
here one of our makers Michael curry
made some chocolate terracotta warriors
recently and the leftover mold was used
to turn out ingots of ten that look like
terracotta warriors so all of our excess
pewter from the thrift store ends up
looking like this
oh that's fantastic turning the rest of
that pewter into laser-cut coins that
are well actually cast coins that are
made in laser-cut molds made of MDF
really fun process very approachable as
long as you have access to laser
chemical so you cut those on the laser
then cast them in MDF yes so we have
these molds in here don't think that
might be today but we have a planks of
MDF that we can etch a design into coins
or challenge coins tokens mythological
coins we do
various stuff for young makers who are
just trying to learn in the casting
process this is much more approachable
than working with brands or other
high-temperature
metals and lets them kind of have a
bigger hand in a quick turnaround
process of casting metal with the ball
we this space we're making soon shadow
limp we care a lot of on where we can
play with the gobo effect point-source
lights and so cool
and here's a recon straight we eat a lot
of our classes outside of class time
uses our memories gather and work on
projects I know and Chad and one of one
another with stupid ideas what we're
going to neck oh so fine monix lab we've
managed to cram four different
electronic court benches in here we're
doing all of our testing workbench and
fabrication and prototyping with red
boards and jumper wires who the sole
escape from local leaders been pirated
from everything from
see some reflow ovens there is that what
that is
and that has been actually working
really well for us for a small reflow of
jobs but we have a larger digital repo
taking place this good that's going in
downstairs so very soon we're gonna have
the ability to batch pick and place jobs
for all electronic craft very nice
[Music]
very nice got a full house I love seeing
that easy there's a huge 3d print people
aren't familiar
that's probably Michael Curry's right he
decided it was just large enough to be
creepy yeah yeah he does lots of big
prints and for those of you who are
concerned about the the figure itself
the designer is a woman on Thingiverse I
forgot her name but she designs these
dolls there they're really interesting
they really are actually while we're on
the topic let's go take a look at model
49 it actually because the three model
so this is a fortune-telling tip jar
[Music]
it's really hard to understand her but
somebody initially thanked you for the
donation has his 3d printing
manufacturing business here in the space
currently provides design consultation
but the minis are nice to get a bunch of
distributed prints going or small parts
that you may need a lot
man that's a lot that's a lot of
printers I guess when you're doing giant
stuff like that uh like that doll and
some of the other stuff I've seen
Michael do you really need a lot of that
don't you zooming embroidery all the
Dresden use and costuming supplies and
some of the stuff that doesn't really go
in the same screening lab oh hey Paul
Kimber says happy birthday Dave oh and
there's actually I believe that's Dave
in back son yeah he's sitting in front
of his Wayback Machine something he's
very proud of oh my goodness I know
who's still loading you know five minute
quarter floppies into the drive first of
my generation to format a floppy the
right way so training why I've been here
now a whole lot to see but a nice dark
room to get screens to go
Rondo the thirst mutilator I've used
that before it actually works at least
he did scrape through your access door
out here to the danger zone
we've got
behind me is assembly room that's where
we have all of the equipment for a th
part oh my goodness look at that
I'm so jealous
I hadn't visited your new space yet for
those who don't know I live somewhat
only a couple hours away from them and I
had not seen this actual space yet this
is incredible pick seitan we we actually
can satisfy your courage
that is crazy
and it's also organized did you guys
clean up just for this or are you always
that organized always disorganized
constantly shuffling fool back on their
red cloth but you would be amazed for
the clean job does for creativity it's
really recognized for just
o our executive editor Mike Sinise is
joy and he asked if that was the former
CNC room no this is a new building Mike
[Music]
so I'm noticing these panels on the wall
back there in the background that looked
kind of custom is that something you
guys dead we made all of these ourselves
actually our members all pitched in on
the labor to build these custom modular
panel we kind of went with a psychotic
underground science lab sort of beam so
when you said it was portal themed okay
I get it now now I get it
new expansions were spared no corners
were kind except for the corner cutting
machine and you would be surprised how
affordable it is to make your own
pegboard when you need glossy pegboard
glossy paper work is tremendously
expensive and this is thrifty white from
the big-box store just that cheap white
basement wall paneling cut into custom
panel on gray squares of 2x4
assembled into modular panels that we
can take apart and reassemble in new
wall units whenever we need that is wild
so quick quick built into the interior
so we can run new wiring and compressed
air lines and all that stuff and then
zip the wall back up
so that was a little bit hard Dundas to
hear but did you just say that that was
Alexa power and workshop control I said
that was a little hard to hear did you
say that was Alexa powered workshop
control settling you turned on your dust
collection system Alexa power dust
collection system so our dust collector
and a lot of the others distance here
automation and because we have the Alexa
pronunciation here they are incidentally
voice command able nice having a little
parade here oh nice outfit on the dog is
that Rambo yeah
hambo hambo oh my goodness it just keeps
going longer here is the space which is
available for purchase or for use the
part of one of our digital fabrication
server so we have a laser shop over here
in this little Hut that is full of six
laser cutters to supply all of the
demands of our these are cutting clients
and members here at the plate behind us
is our skinny shop
got a couple sizeable machines there my
goodness that I know how big that shop
bot is how big is that monster on this
very nice advantage now it's been
lobotomized and properly modernize nice
Michael did the same Today Show and we
got this it was just a rolling frame
essentially no electronics no motors
nothing so this one was rebirth with a
water-powered spindle and some of our
own Hardware certainly our own
controller very cool very cool so you
don't have to use their software you can
just use standard mock trying or
something nice little mixing room with
the vacuum domes pressure pods bigger
table all the stuff let's see the lasers
oh my goodness 10 12 hours a day the
other thing is huge
[Laughter]
my goodness now if I remember right you
had like small businesses operating out
of your space using lasers right oh we
do
there's maybe two dozen very cool my god
no bro we don't know anybody with a
bunch of awesome machines the razor
cutter to make a tool with the doors
my god it's still going surprised you
didn't need a golf cart to show the tour
this is the metal shop this is where we
keep all of this memory proofing for
Jews and him Bulls hammers cause
everything you need for doing the hard
part is done
everything from chop saws to a dedicated
metal cutting table saw to band saws
chop saws probably still in operation
great all of them hold forging and
bending stock machining manual meal and
our brand new journeyman 325 well new to
us rich from the 80s are our newest ence
no oh it's still got the wood chocks on
yeah fired that up yet like 20 minutes
ago
oh my goodness someone is going up with
something amazing that we now have to
run wires to and provide air power for
all the fun over the next couple of
this area it's the welding station
[Music]
soldering oh my god this place is
incredible
I thought your old place was awesome but
this is just incredible
we are so happy casting system for to
make lost-wax casting this variety of
perforated plastic so anything up to do
about this volume and bran or silver or
[Music]
all the melter now to open for the lost
wax process and because we have 3d
printers we have the option of printing
lots of things and then as we do you see
positive
nice this one we had in our old space no
Dubai - because we had pretty limited
square footage over there well pretty
soon this is going to become a larger
unit the moment though athlete comes
parts of the people quite goofy things
like the expiry week skill or
complicated mechanical parts yeah who
knows hard Pentagon's already cans
jewelry smithing bent on this wall so
why bring the bracelet mandrel is the
small anvils adapting blogs rolling
mills from making their own ring stock
Thank You stretch difference horrible
slabs wax engineers for in Dec things
old school where you work presses and
great recurring roles and everything
just incredible
so is that the entirety of the space it
isn't goodness
well here's the member parking lot where
we have storage facility and storage
unit who are the unruly Porter amongst
us are we not all hoarders amongst the
maker community oh yeah it's bring to
store obtain iam for your project what
am I seeing there in the distance that's
one of my members Jeff and his more dirt
post-apocalyptic vehicle Oh Oh nice
skulls oh and the one up on the breather
fantastic up on the snorkel there you
gotta take a once-around that is
fantastic
Oh a trailer - yep it's got everything
but visibility more dirt that's funny
and that your story here this alright so
the store is what where people can buy
supplies and kits and stuff
[Music]
so what are your hours of operation when
can people come in oh my goodness you've
got like a legit store and if they're
members of the face they can get in as
early as 7:00 a.m. and as late as 11:00
very nice interesting stuff for fitting
name from our consulting for sign Aries
down here provide design consultation
services so that white photo booth white
rings new inscriptions here on a tabloid
take your photo
all of that was machined out of bamboo
or one of the CNC machine I spent at
staying new LED neon oh I love that
stuff it's amazing or loving it it's o
CNC machined MDF with that led neon
pressed in nice it's a scale model of
the Western Auto sign just
very nice
and then micro electronics component
consumable supplies it
coming soon behind me this room is still
under construction but we just
demolished the wall and small to be our
like pick-and-place lab and final
sign-making Wow basically has clean room
area for the stuff that we want to keep
them complete and it's crazy and then
that's kind of leaps thanks for watching
so now we're coming back to where we
started right that is fantastic
so for for anybody who's looking at this
and getting super jealous it wasn't
always this massive and wonderful and
perfect how long have you guys been
around and how did you get started we
just wanted a more centrist baby and I
threw down the property of everybody
else threw down for the participation
here we are you know seven years later
and we are and only eight years that's
incredible so let's say here on the chat
we've had several people commenting
about how clean it is saying it's a
little suspect and they don't know if
they can trust you
Mike Sinise executive editor is just
blown away by your space and here we
have a question is there anything that
you guys don't have that you really want
just because you know mayhem they can
come and I'm an experienced blinds gonna
teach you a list of the things that we
give my shoulder there's a minute
yeah so I've already posted the link to
your site in the chat but just in case
somebody's watching this later how would
somebody find you guys members face of
e-commerce AC where you can find
information about our digital
fabrication services or these are you
know easy to accident to cam services
square we take your drawings and through
finished machining part let's talk about
that a little bit so one of the things I
mean I've seen a whole lot of
makerspaces and hackerspaces and fab
labs and community workshops whatever
you want to call them I've seen a whole
lot of them they have different models
of being able to support themselves and
generate revenue and find new members
and you guys you do classes right you
just mentioned classes and what we're
seeing here that's the result of a class
right sort of grandiose classes a year
things that are maybe higher dollar
products
thank you for use in those classes than
our regular school face classes but this
is one we did for Maker Faire this year
we weren't really satisfied with a
Raspberry Pi Brigade it's we're out
there they were expensive and kind of
ramshackle and something that felt like
a really old school arcade and who's our
graphic designer with
here did all of the beautiful graphics
for the sides that are and those are
fantastic I really like how yellow
that's fantastic expenses is a big spray
paint on the cabinet's back in the day
when they didn't have the finished crack
or this one behind us that the two Cedar
Park lawn masters nice so what are some
of the skills based classes that you
guys offer well we do a lot of
blacksmithing and silver smithing
woodworking and use a vector drawing
program you make final state you can use
to run the plasma cutter or retains the
machine for very nice
oh here's here's one first couple of
years I knew about you guys I saw a
hammer space and didn't think anything
of it I thought well that's a clever
name for a community workshop but it's
more than that you mind telling us what
hammer space is well that part two
characters reach into withdrawn massive
hammer actually I've got Ramona Flowers
on my shirt from Scott Pilgrim vs. the
world that literally reaches into every
space and withdraws our logo from from
amber space which we were seeing in the
theater laughing when produce
ridiculously large objects from behind
in fact though we decided that hammer
space is your personal place to keep
giant tools that
and withdraw at a moment's notice that
is perfect it is perfect very cool well
do you have any makers that want to show
us stuff they've built sure I've got
some folks out here we've got about
maybe 10 minutes left I'm gonna take
over for BEC here say hello back my
lovely camera lady hi back thanks for
carrying the camera I hope your arms
don't fall off and say okay hi Kai all
right Chris it's simply answer the
question we could display something in
2050 to the launch space what kind of
things would you the split I don't play
figuring out how to do yeah and these
little units make that really
approachable we used to have to drill
holes and ping-pong balls and do all
those sorts of absurd things to get
diffusers for the LEDs but these are all
these new packages are kind of cool they
make doing that sort of low res display
a lot easier they're nice and then let
me know your standard you know four
controls we've got over here oh yeah
okay so the follow bot is fantastic I
love this so this unassuming piece of
plywood here on the underside has the
remnants of surplus hoverboards which
have been hacked in order to provide a
very low-tech follow ability so this is
a joystick controller sort of gizmo from
a Japanese golf game PlayStation
PlayStation golf camp so this
Kord gives us one axis of control that's
all analog on this you know I get that
in the shot there we go
oh I see it spinning there oh right in
the middle of the frame essentially a
multi axis joystick so if you attach
this lanyard to your belt our bought
here can follow at a fixed distance and
carry your cooler with all of your beers
or your sodas or your heavy equipment
for Maker Faire or your other broken
robot that's now too heavy to move
around so at a fixed distance it will
just begin to follow this corrugate long
yeah I was I was stopping just shy of
the trigger distance so it doesn't you
know rock it off of the table onto the
floor
didn't catch that yeah it's based on
Nicolas Paul which is a maker out of
Germany who did a lot of the acne oh
very nice Verna's yeah and then over
here we have a Halloween advent calendar
that's being worked on by Jonathan over
here so we we're all counting the days
till Halloween around here so he's come
up with a a way to spring load these
little tombstones on his advent calendar
so you can get your daily dose of
chocolate and build up an immunity
before a Halloween night okay and
anybody else got something they're
working on Aaron you got it Oh Aaron you
got to go grab your shield so I'm
actually wearing some of Aaron's art but
that ring yeah back up away from the
camera a little bit oh there we go
oh that's cool so titanium and time
askus bullet style square ring beautiful
piece
and then Aaron is holding his titanium
bulletproof Captain America shield so
this is made of armored SPECT Tyner
titanium plate that's been rolled to
resemble that classic heater shield
design from the World War two Captain
America and will actually stop all
conventional handgun rounds Wow
confirmed
well there's the the corners that were
left over held up quite well at the
range so you took the scraps to the
range and it didn't put a dent in it
try with a 30.6 and it went straight
through so somewhere in between those oh
that's so cool
[Music]
we're gonna be doing these for Halloween
we've got a prop scare class where we're
building animated props that make noises
and move using skeletons how that is
cool very cool um wow that is nice
another member project there well very
cool this place is incredible I am just
blown away by by how cool this space is
I wish I lived closer I'd be up there
all the time shoot I could save some
money instead of buying so many tools
for myself it's so cool you know that
picture that right there actually
reminds me you kind of touched on it a
tiny bit earlier but people can hire you
guys to build stuff right that is
correct as long as it's primarily
digital fabrication but occasionally
design-build work especially if you are
to consulting designers so I've seen a
little bit of some of the stuff you guys
did I remember once you're showing off
some taps for like a like a bar the beer
taps you guys did some custom work on
those molded stuff those were really
cool I got those in here the tap handles
for RO hard
we're a an especially fun project to see
where did they and know they're there so
this is a tap handle meant to look like
an old-time patent medicine bottle on an
ivory pedestal so that you can purchase
hard root beer at a bar instead of in a
can because without this who's gonna
walk up to the bartender and say give me
a hard review probably no one so they
could not find anyone to produce the
relatively small volume of this product
that they needed there's this gulf for
small manufacturers who are struggling
between that prototype and the 30,000
parts that you need to utilize
traditional manufacturing and there's a
lot of good business to be had in that
realm so we do micro manufacturing so
when someone needs you know a couple
hundred and steel butterflies we can do
that affordable that is fantastic
and they can find you through your
website or through Facebook and that's
hammer space hobby was it calm
hammer space hobby calm yes hammer space
hobby calm perfect and then some of
those things even extend to mold making
and castings doing you know silicone
molds and resin and wax oh I see yeah
that fits in there very nice very nice
well I think unless there's any other
makers that are standing around really
wanting to show off what they've got
what they've made I think we may call
that a wrap this place is just simply
incredible and I feel like we could
spend all night just looking at the cool
things laying around that have been
produced over there I mean jeez those
are so cool produced over the years but
I think we're gonna go ahead and and cut
it short Oh quick question from Eddie
light do you have a kiln for ceramics we
do we do use the kiln for we have
actually several different kilns for
things like burning out and heat
treating and then a ceramics kiln as
well yeah and then here at Kansas City
we're very fortunate to have the Kansas
City clay guild
oh that's dedicated clay-based
makerspace that's been around for about
20 years long before most other makers
basement and they have a fantastic set
up over there for doing ceramics so if
you're in the Kansas City area
definitely check them out perfect
all right so if you want to just stay on
the line here with us for a moment Dave
I'm gonna go ahead and wrap up the
livestream switch over here thank you
everybody for joining us thank you so
much I want to again thank did Jackie go
to digikey.com and check them out just
like hammer space has every tool you can
imagine digi-key has all the parts that
you could possibly need to build your
electronics projects and the most
important thing is they're awesome
enough to understand and value
supporting the community so they do
things like support us doing a video
series purely based on promoting the
maker community thanks again digi-key we
love you thank you so much thanks to
hammer space and the whole crew over
there back and Dave for giving us a tour
and that's it we'll see you guys next
month we're going to be checking out a
space I believe in Portland you'll have
to check the schedules on that but we'll
see you next month at the next
makerspace