The Fort Collins Creator Hub helped recreate some of the projects illustrated in Dr. Grandin’s new book “Calling All Minds”. Her message in her book is clear: Make things. Work with your hands. Roll up your sleeves. Put on your thinking cap and let your imagination run wild! We had a fair number of kids …
Here is! Thanks to Zach, Steve and Erik for delivering the palette racks. Thanks to the members of the board who unloaded the trailer, and thanks to our wonderful volunteers who came in to build the shelving. We will now have more floorspace to add new equipment and have a separated area for a classroom. …
At Barnes and Noble: The Fort Collins Creator Hub worked the Barnes and Noble Maker Fair and Book Fair this past weekend. We showed off some of our maker projects and held a little paper rocket building class for the kids on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The weather was perfect for launching the rockets in …
Hey! The Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire and Bookfair are this weekend! Come to the fair and support your makerspace. When you buy selected items in person at the College Avenue Barns and Noble bookstore either show the person at the register this voucher or tell them you are here for the bookfair and …
Quick! Our Samba band is doing a special Halloween gig TOMORROW and our band leader says the theme is gonna be “Day Of The Dead”*. Looks like I have to cook up a costume real soon. While I can work out the details with the face paint and hat and other possible hand held …
Quick Costume Idea (Halloween is only 4 days away!) Read More »
The Big Banjo at the Mini Maker Fair in Denver The Big Banjo at the STEAM2 Design Fair in Fort Collins Not too long ago I put together this bass banjo. The drum head is from a 22 inch kick drum and the neck is from various pieces of wood that I had in “storage” …
The results of our first printed circuit boards made using our vinyl cutter! Click HERE for more info.
One of our newer pieces of equipment at the Fort Collins Creator Hub is a Vinyl Cutter. It’s like a big computer controlled plotter except instead of using a pen to draw a picture there is a sharp knife blade that can cut paper or vinyl designs. Mostly these cutters are used for making signs …
The HUB joined a number of exhibitors at this year’s STEAMfest, organized by the Boys and Girls of Larimer County. Our booth was busy all day as kids stopped in to build their own paper rockets and get the chance to fire them into (space) with the HUB’s own air pressure rocket launcher. The …
The Wild Boar gets aeronautical Pie Plate Activity before the Hub board meeting In celebration of Pi day, the Fort Collins Creator Hub met in the basement of the Wild Boar Cafe with the intention of converting ordinary styrofoam ‘PI’ plates into flying gliders. Besides the pie plates, other materials included plastic soda straws, adhesive …
