Category Archives: maker resource
TORCAM CNC mill comes alive with Easel/GRBL
For those not following along, I’m helping revive some long-unused CNC machine tools at our awesome local high school, Sir John A. MacDonald in Waterloo, Ontario Canada…
Refitting a TORCAM CNC lathe controller
It’s been an interesting three weeks since Part 2 (and before that, Part 1) of this project to reverse engineer and make operational a twenty year old CNC lathe and mill at my favourite local high school. If you like … Continue reading
Reverse engineering a TORCAM CNC lathe controller
About a month ago, I connected with Arden’s high school tech teacher to see if we could get the CNC lathe and mill going in SJAM’s shop. It had been inherited from another school and as far as we knew … Continue reading
Repost: Screen Printing–Part 0–Idea
Bringing back some old stuff from the deep web after talking with designer/screen printer extraordinaire Jon Johnson last week. This post was pre-kwartzlab, back when we were nomadic makers, building the community, under the temporary MakeKW banner. So cool to … Continue reading
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Repost: Screen Printing–Part 1–Materials
Bringing back some old stuff from the deep web after talking with designer/screen printer extraordinaire Jon Johnson last week. This post was pre-kwartzlab, back when we were nomadic makers, building the community, under the temporary MakeKW banner. So cool to … Continue reading
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Repost: Screen Printing–Part 2–Screens
Bringing back some old stuff from the deep web after talking with designer/screen printer extraordinaire Jon Johnson last week. This post was pre-kwartzlab, back when we were nomadic makers, building the community, under the temporary MakeKW banner. So cool to … Continue reading
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Repost: Screen Printing–Part 3–Actually Printing
Bringing back some old stuff from the deep web after talking with designer/screen printer extraordinaire Jon Johnson last week. This post was pre-kwartzlab, back when we were nomadic makers, building the community, under the temporary MakeKW banner. So cool to … Continue reading
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Repost: Metal Casting 101 Rocked!
Bringing back some old stuff from the deep web to support a new venture. This post was pre-kwartzlab, back when we were nomadic makers, building the community, under the temporary MakeKW banner. So cool to see the same spirit in … Continue reading
What can you make with a laser cutter?
A pretty freakin’ cool clock, for one thing. I popped by kwartzlab last Tuesday for their open night to check out the new laser cutter, funded by CEEO. James Bastow was there with his latest project: a word clock, inspired … Continue reading
Local Laser! Waterloo Engraving fieldtrip
Last Tuesday, a half dozen of us from kwartzlab took a (short) fieldtrip over to Waterloo Engraving to meet up with owner, Bill Jermyn. Bill had dropped by Tuesday Open Night at the lab a few weeks back and we … Continue reading
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