We’ve been accumulating gear to do small scale – think jewelry – metal pours, including a little electric casting furnace …
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Internships, Partnerships, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, and Builder’s Rites
Student interns just wrapped up three days in the Innovation Center working in teams to solve a business challenge as …
Students Making Things
Unsurprisingly, there’s been a lot of making in the makerspace lately. For instance, Sydney (student and Makerspace Facilitator) is working …
Alice in the Makerspace
FLC’s Falcon’s Eye Theatre is staging a spring production of Alice in Wonderland, and the Innovation Center decided to host …
Of Mushrooms and Chimpanzees
A few weeks back, Max (student and aspiring mycologist) spent some time preparing jars of rye berries for starting mushrooms, …
Marble Machine Boards
Inspired by the Tinkering Studio’s Instructable Make a Marble Machines Board, we set about to construct three of them for …
Katazome in the Makerspace
Katia (student and President of the Asian Pacific Islander Club) collaborated with Innovation Center on a katazome activity for her …
Brew Day v3.0 – Now With More Variables!
Max Mahoney (Chemistry) and I spent a long day brewing a couple of batches of beer recently. Now familiar with …
Pizza Box Pinball!
Students in ECE 452 – Making for Educators spent the last couple of class sessions working in groups to create …
MUSHROOM PLANTING POT V1.0
Today we got a look at the first prototypes of our mycelium-based 4″ planting pot project. Here’s how they looked, …