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Metal Shop Organization: Lathe Tool Rack

Shortly after having finished the toolholder for the R8/Bridgeport and Cat40/HAAS toolholders (Blog post here!), I was feeling inspired to do something similar on our lathe. I wanted as simple […]

Metal Shop Organization: Making Toolholders for Toolholders

I spend a lot of time in the FamiLAB metal shop making things, maintaining machines, and sometimes just enjoying some order and organization. Our collection of tools and toolholders for […]

The FamiLAB 24 Hour Make

In preparation for Maker Faire Orlando, FamiLAB members Suraj, Brad, Nick, Dave and Rick worked together to make a small portable vacuum former. Not only did they build the vacuum […]

FamiLAB Goes to the White House

“Wait, that email is real?” Three weeks ago, FamiLAB, along with dozens of other makerspaces, hackerspaces, and fab labs, received a Request for Information from the Senior Advisor for Making […]

FamiLAB’s DIY BioTech Lab Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary

For the last year, we’ve been meeting weekly to build out our DIY BioTech lab and work on skills and content for upcoming class offerings. Below are some pics highlighting […]

Familab now has a Vacuum Forming table

After MakerFaire last year I decided to make a Vacuum Forming table for the lab. I tossed the idea on the forums and people chimed in with ideas recommendations and […]

Featured Stories

1November 22, 2016
Metal Shop Organization: Lathe Tool Rack
Shortly after having finished the toolholder for the R8/Bridgeport and Cat40/HAAS toolholders (Blog post here!), I was feeling inspired to do something similar on our lathe. I wanted as simple […]
2November 6, 2016
Metal Shop Organization: Making Toolholders for Toolholders
I spend a lot of time in the FamiLAB metal shop making things, maintaining machines, and sometimes just enjoying some order and organization. Our collection of tools and toolholders for […]
0October 10, 2016
The FamiLAB 24 Hour Make
In preparation for Maker Faire Orlando, FamiLAB members Suraj, Brad, Nick, Dave and Rick worked together to make a small portable vacuum former. Not only did they build the vacuum […]
0August 30, 2016
FamiLAB Goes to the White House
“Wait, that email is real?” Three weeks ago, FamiLAB, along with dozens of other makerspaces, hackerspaces, and fab labs, received a Request for Information from the Senior Advisor for Making […]
0August 14, 2016
FamiLAB’s DIY BioTech Lab Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary
For the last year, we’ve been meeting weekly to build out our DIY BioTech lab and work on skills and content for upcoming class offerings. Below are some pics highlighting […]
2August 12, 2016
Familab now has a Vacuum Forming table
After MakerFaire last year I decided to make a Vacuum Forming table for the lab. I tossed the idea on the forums and people chimed in with ideas recommendations and […]
0August 7, 2016
Making a Poor Man’s Powerswitch Tail – Arduino (Logic Level) Controllable Outlets for $6 apiece
(The usual disclaimers apply here. 110v A/C will kill you, and it will hurt the whole time you’re dying. Since I did the legwork, you shouldn’t have to have these […]
0July 21, 2016
Thank You, Budget Dumpster!
FamiLAB gets a lot of email. Some emails are inquiries into membership, some are class requests, others yet announce makerspace and hackerspace contests that we can enter. Once in a […]
0June 5, 2016
FAMiLab Annual Video Game Party
When it comes to a makerspace, it’s important that in between projects we kick back, relax, and party with some of our favorite games and friends. In the previous […]
1June 4, 2016
Big Thanks to Titebond Wood Glue!
Greetings everyone This past week FamiLAB received a donation from the very nice people at Titebond for our wood working section at the lab. How this donation came to be is […]
0March 20, 2016
Class: Pisanki – the Art of Polish Easter Eggs
As a promised follow-up to my post on making pisanki (Polish Easter eggs), I hosted a class on Saturday to teach people the basics. I had a great group (I […]
3February 22, 2016
The Gang Makes Hydrogen
Okay, so “The Gang” is a misnomer here, just feeling the Sunny in Philadelphia vibe. It’s been sunny in Orlando all afternoon, where I’ve been sweating against a dumpster for three hours. And […]
1February 3, 2016
1/23/2016 DIY-BioTech Meetup: Clean air hood and Coffee
On most Saturday afternoons, we have a meetup at FamiLAB to work on equipping the DIY-BioTech lab, practice techniques for the classes we are putting together, and plan future […]
8February 1, 2016
Hacking the Amazon Dash Button to Make a Simple, Cheap, IoT Place-Anywhere Networked Button
I got two of Amazon’s newly-available dash buttons with the intention of playing with them to see what they were capable of. They’re a $5 button that when pressed, wakes […]
0January 4, 2016
FamiLAB Rings in the New Year
FamiLAB members are really cranking in the first 24 hours of the New Year. We started with Nick CNCing up a FamiLAB classic design, the flat pack Octocat designed by myself for […]
0January 4, 2016
Pisanki – Polish Egg Decorating
Most of the things I make are for gifts, especially when I’m too crunched on time to do many projects. One of the gifts I made this year was a […]
2January 1, 2016
Weekly Photography Challenge
Calling all photographers! As many of you know, in our newly outfitted FamiLAB 1.5x space we have constructed a fully functioning darkroom open to all of our members. This has renewed […]
2December 25, 2015
FamiLAB’s New Welding Area
Though I’m still very young at welding, I really enjoy it. I think it’s partly the concentration required, partly the art of it, partially the skill and seriousness required, but […]