Category Archives: AwesomeShop
Screen Printing Shirts
After our success with poster printing with stencils, we decided to adapt our stencil learning into a shirt screenprinting process. We cut out a number of stencils and taped them to the back of a screen printing board. Like the … Continue reading
Making Stickers
As part of the “Say it with Graphics” AwesomeShop, we tried our hands at using the Sihouette CAMEO cutting tool to make vinyl stickers. From idea, to file, to sticker in minutes, the Makers were hard at work flexing their … Continue reading
AwesomeShop: Tron Bikes – Week 8: Bike Ride / Final Class!!
For the last day of the Tron Bikes AwesomeShop we were going to go on a bike ride around Belle Isle, however the forecast called for bad thunderstorms so we decided to postpone it. That was until we got fed up with not riding and decided to go anyway! I am sure … Continue reading
AwesomeShop: Tron Bikes – Week 7: Build Day
Week 8 of Tron Bikes was an open hack day for makers to finish up any unfinished projects. Almost everyone worked on completing their amplifiers and boomboxes. Hopefully, all of the makers will be able to complete their projects in time for our … Continue reading
AwesomeShop: Tron Bikes – Week 6: Building Amps
Because of last weeks Uber Hack in Eastern Market, the Tron Bikes class was a little behind, so we went full speed into building small OpAmps (audio amplifiers) so that next week we can put them in miniature, on bike, boom … Continue reading
“Uber Hack” with OCD in Eastern Market
This past weekend we cancelled our Tron Bikes workshop in favor of joining with our partner hackerspace OmniCorpDetroit (OCD) so that a handful of our Makers could teach classes during Saturday market day in Eastern Market. Many market-goers stopped by … Continue reading
AwesomeShop: Tron Bikes – Week 5: LED Bike Lights
This week in the Tron Bikes class we created simple LED circuits that would fit into bicycle wheels! As you can see, it was a big hit!!! Many students left with a full LED light, complete with a wired in battery … Continue reading
AwesomeShop: Tron Bikes – Week 4: Bike Safety Lights
This week, in the Tron bikes class, we made simple blinky LED circuits for bicycle safety lights. We also introduced the nature of prototyping through beard-boards, proto-boards and engineering schematics. I see much more electrical mayhem in our future!