I start far more projects than I finish, and I think maybe going to a space to work on a project might help with that. I’m kind of a software person, but I’ve tinkered in electronics, drawing, breadmaking, 3d printing, too many types of printmaking, cardboard engineering and a lot of things I’ve forgotten at this point.
Things that I’m proficient enough in that I could meaningfully help others would be the printmaking and 3d printing.
And just yesterday, I was looking at your website and wondering whether to come to your open evening today, and that evening I met up with my friend @moritonal who said did I know about this makerspace near me and he was thinking of coming to an open evening. So the upshot is that I’ll see you this evening.
by cardboard engineering I mostly mean automata (though I probably shouldn’t list this as a selling point because now I think of it, decades have gone by since the last time I did any of that), I’ve also built some shelving units and a hifi stand out of cardboard — the main learning point I can pass on from that is that buying furniture gives you better furniture.
Haha, when I first moved to Luxembourg I made a sock drawer and wardrobe dividers out of the leftover ikea cardboard. They were in place until I moved out three years later! Some folks might not like the look but it made me happy to not waste something.
Have you heard of Slicer for Fusion 360? It turns 3D models into 2D shapes via stacked slices, lattices, or folds.
Do you have any videos of your automata? I always love them!
I hadn’t seen the Fusion 360 thing — my 7-year-old laptop struggles with F360, so I mostly ignore it. And yeah, it really is decades since my last go at automota, so it predates having video cameras around.
I’ve done the sock drawer thing before; it didn’t work well as I was married at the time to someone who was naturally tidy and scoffed at any technological attempt at organisation.