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April 5th, 2011

2011-04-05 kwartzlab Tuesday Open Night on Flickr

April 12th, 2011

2011-04-12 kwartzlab Tuesday Open Night on Flickr

April 19th, 2011

2011-04-19 kwartzlab Tuesday Open Night on Flickr

April 26th, 2011

2011-04-26 kwartzlab Tuesday Open Night on Flickr

May 3rd, 2011

2011-05-03 kwartzlab Tuesday Open Night on Flickr

May 10th, 2011

2011-05-10 kwartzlab Tuesday Open Night on Flickr

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This batch was accidentally skipped – better late than never!

kwartzlab asset tag, made by Ben. The asset tag system identifies the owner and hackability of the asset. Details at kwartzlab.ca/mediawiki/index.php/Asset_Tags

Karl holds a piece of his machine art, created by milling the back side of the acrylic.

Don builds frame to hold a hot air gun.

Bernie shows off a work in progress.

Bernie's impressive work draws a crowd.

Don repairs a mobile phone.

Ed, Darcy, FreeBSD.

Chris laminates strips of wood for his next woodworking project.

Richard and Kevin work to repair and improve the RepRap extruder.

Ed helps Jon debug an Arduino project.

Alex and Ryan show off and discuss their nine day game project.

Gus edits a podcast.

Karl shows off some recently completed LED-sidelit machine art.

Circuitry for on of Karl’s LED-sidelit machine art pieces.

Closeup of Karl’s machine art.

Closeup of Karl’s machine art.

Closeup of Karl’s machine art.

Closeup of Karl’s LED-sidelit machine art.

Jon displays the design for his Homebrew Arduino 0-10V shield, designed with the gEDA suite. He has posted details at http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2011/03/homebrew-arduino-0-10v-shield/

Ben cooks a batch of blueberry pancakes for Pancake Tuesday, which coincided with kwartzlab’s Tuesday Open Night.

Richard carefully replaces a damaged LCD panel.

Holger shows off the beginnings of his 4×4 LED cube.

Rob discusses his portable synth collection project(?) I should really write these things down.

Soldering teamwork, with Cedric and Rob.

Ben, Gus, Richard, Kevin and Cedric watch the RepRap print for the first time.

Kevin holds the first finished part printed by the RepRap.

This week, Ron Daniels gave a talk “The Organic Entrepreneur” at Tuesday Open Night.

DW has a great recap of the event over at his blog, makebright.

DW photographs Ron before the Monetizing the Making event at Tuesday Open Night.

Project table set up for Tuesday Open Night.

Don’s timer and counter demonstration, along with custom PCBs.

Nine Day Game, by Alex and Ryan. Details at http://twitter.com/NineDayGame

RFID Reader module prototype by JB.

Touch Gallery, written in Python with Clutter, by Darcy.

Bevan holds a mechanical mockup of Project Moon as Andrew describes the prototyping process.

Don explains his magazine paper toner transfer method for fabricating PCBs.

Kevin puts the sander to use as he continues his work on the RepRap.

RC aircraft designed and built by Ron.

Magazines featuring Ron’s kits.

Darin and Ron.

Darin welcomes guests and introduces himself at Monetizing the Making, a talk at kwartzlab’s Tuesday Open Night.

Gus, president of kwartzlab, talks briefly about what kwartzlab is all about.

"The Organic Entrepreneur", a talk by Ron Daniels at kwartzlab’s Tuesday Open Night.

The product life cycle, a recurring slide in Ron’s talk.

Ron fields questions after his talk.

Members and guests socialize after Ron’s talk.

Ron answers questions about his designs.

Andrew rebuilds another dead cordless drill battery pack.

Don double-checks his wiring.

Karl and Roland (AKA Caliban Strange) stand in front of the art wall, which is populated with new art by Caliban Strange.

Andrew tweaks the PCB for Project Moon.

Ben.

Ron holds a wooden RepRap extruder nozzle that failed during use.

Ron, Andrew and Kevin discuss RepRap extruder nozzle solutions.