Here is some good news for our members (and members-to-be). We are in the process of transitioning to Wild Apricot membership software. Not only will this allow for more communication and self-management of your membership, it will automate many of the processes that our volunteers had to perform manually. This will take a few days …
Call for Volunteers It’s that time of year! The Fort Collins Creator Hub is again going to have a booth at New West Fest. If you don’t know what that is – it’s a free music festival that takes over Old Town Fort Collins August 11-12. In between the many performance stages are vendor booths from …
Help us build a quality wood shop. If you have ever done much wood working, you probably realize that a good shop revolves around a key piece of equipment – the table saw. Almost all wood projects start with cutting wood stock to the proper size. A quality table saw makes this job a fast, safe and accurate …
Looking for some fun and exciting camps for your kids this summer? Look no further! We will be hosting two camps this summer, both related to the theatre. We are partnering with Yendra Built and Bas Bleu Theatre to offer a costume design and leathercraft camp as well as a set design and woodworking camp. …
Creator Hub to offer Theatre Maker Camps this Summer! Read More »
We have two exciting announcements to make! The first announcement is that we now have staffed business hours. Thanks to an Encore Fellowship grant from Intel, we have been able to pay a contractor to staff the space since mid-January. His name is Susith and his office hours at the space are Tuesday, Thursday and …
The Fort Collins Creator Hub was nominated by our fellow spaces in Colorado to fill out a survey about our makerspace sent by the White House a few weeks ago. Because of that survey, I was invited by Andrew Coy, Senior Advisor for Making (in the Office of Science and Technology Policy) at the White House, to …
Fort Collins Creator Hub at Nation of Makers meeting in Washington DC Read More »
The Creator Hub has been busy lately. We staffed a tent at New West Fest in Fort Collins in mid-August. We showed off one of our Lulzbot 3D printers and number of member projects. We met many, many people over the course of the weekend. This last weekend, we had a table at Fort …
Today, with a lot of help from members and friends, we have moved from our old location in the basement at the Art Center in Fort Collins to 1304 Duff Dr. Unit 15, Fort Collins, 80524. We are subletting from Zach Yendra, owner of YendaBuilt. Our new space is larger, is above ground, has windows, …
Welcome to the conclusion of my CNC router saga. I had a newly minted “OX” CNC router, a.k.a. the “Mark 2”, but there were still things to do before I could begin using it for actual projects (like the Crokinole board I wanted to build).
Welcome back to the saga of my CNC router build. To summarize my learnings from my first CNC build: It was very difficult to adjust the bearings. It wasn’t big enough. The stepper couplings to the lead screws need to be isolated from forces along the length of the screws. Using 13 tpi lead screws …
