Come for some Bad Robot Battles, stay for the good maker community

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The Community Shop in Downtown Portsmouth

The ultimate playground for those who tinker, design, build, fabricate, prototype, machine and make.

August 2018 Newsletter

Contents:

Featured Events: Bad Robot Competition #2
Quick-Click Poll: Which shop would you want to spend all your time in if you could?
Upcoming Classes
Pictures from around the space
Weekly Volunteering at the Makerspace

Featured Event

Bad Robot Competition #2
August 11th @ 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

We loved it so much we want to do it again, here’s Bad Robot Competition #2! Bad bots will go head to head in a series of sumo matches to determine who the Best Bad Bot is! Do you have what it takes to slap together some scrap into a plucky compteitor for this challenge?
For more details go to the eventbrite page.

QUICK-CLICK POLL:
Which shop would you want to spend all your time in if you could?

The wood shop! I love to make sawdust.

The metal shop! Let the sparks fly.

The electronics lab! Hopefully no sparks fly.

The auto shop! I love to wrench on stuff

The commons area! It's got the arcade machine.

Upcoming Classes
August
Bad Robot Competition #2 - August 11 @ 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Intro to 3D Printing - August 21 @ 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Intro to CNC Routers - August 23 @ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Port City Makerspace at the NH Maker Fest! - August 25 @ 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Intro to Wood Shop - August 29 @ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

September
Intro to Welding - September 2 @ 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Intro Machine Shop – Make a Candlestick - September 15 @ 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Intro to Soldering – Larson Scanner Kit - September 27 @ 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Open Hack Nights - Fridays 6-8pm
Work in our Electronics Lab and Classroom space for free! Meet other tinkerers and hobbyists, bring a project to work on or show off, and spend your Fridays making cool stuff!

Have an idea for a class or meet up to host at our space?

Fill out our New Event/Class Form!

Pictures from around the space

THank you to Christiana for making dust covers for our welder fleet! They're good for safety and style.

Goodbye Kitty and Hot Glue Hot Rod battling it out at our first Bad Robot Competition.

Printers printing printers! But not really. This red printer is our new Afinia 3D Printer! It's so much smaller than our big printer it fits on the bed! It works wonderfully though.

Happy cactus says "Come to our 3D Printing Class!" - link

An artful display of free wood from one of our member's workplace's scraps. One of the perks of membership, sometimes others will bring in free wood for you to use!

Are you ready to rumble? How about rumble with the CNC and engrave a piece for your wrestling belt?

Weekly Volunteering at the Makerspace

Do you have 2-4 hours a week that you can spare doing simple tasks? Are you interested in hanging out at the space and interacting with our members? Do you have any special skills you'd like to offer?

Volunteer with us and help out! All new volunteers get a T-shirt to wear when they're at the shop.

Submit a Volunteer Application Today!

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