Upcoming classes for Febuary

Hello Members!

We’ve started building out our class calendar schedule.

We are proud to start teaching metal shop classes!  First up is Dom’s “Quick and Dirty Chassis Building” make and take event on Feb 8th 10am, where Dom will show you the basics of building a sheet metal box for electronics.  We expect more metal classes to be offered as we get into the new year, including one on the milling machine now that we have a tachometer up on the spindle.

For those of you interested in 3D Printing, Terence will teaching his 3D Printing 101 and 102 classes.   3D Print 101 assumes no prior knowledge of any sort in 3D Printing; we’ll cover some history of 3D Printers and the reprap project, parts of a 3D printer, before diving into the nuts and bolts of slicing a file for 3D Printing.  3D Print 102 is a relatively new class that goes in depth into creating functional parts, printing with exotic filaments, flexible materials, chemical vapor smoothing, threaded inserts, etc - basically a distillation of years of experience printing functional parts for an engineering consulting firm (and thousands of dollars and tens of kilometers of filament consumed) into a 2 hour course.  

In the woodshop, we have woodshop 101 - a basic and quick introduction to the SnoCo woodshop and all the tools available to our members, and explains the safety and etiquette around the use of our woodshop.  Finally, we are happy to offer a pen turning class as well, for those curious about making something on our wood lathe.

Our maker space laser build is progressing slower than we’d like.  That being said, if you are interested, our next build date will be on Saturday Feb 15th from 3-7pm.  This free event is being run as a community builder; no previous experience is required; we provide both training and necessary PPE.

Finally, if there are classes that you would love to see offered, please drop us an email at: snocoleadership@snocomakers.org

Thank you,

The Board @ SnoCo Maker Space