It’s that time again! The Global Hackerspace Cupcake Challenge is this weekend. If you’d like to help out, jump on our public mailing list and join in on the discussion.
Looks like our cupcake from last year’s win was posted on Make. 
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/02/13/global-hackerspace-cupcake-challenge/
What do you love to make? This tuesday, we’re hosting a show-and-tell. We’ll also have a couple arduinos kicking around if you’d like to tinker. Stop by around 8pm. This event is open to the public.
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So, I was going to do a long post about my new makerbot. Instead of blogging the long tedious assembly and troubleshooting, I’ll show you my first project with it. 
I found a flying spaghetti monster cookie cutter on thingiverse. The print turned out ok, but it had some gaps that food might get stuck in, so I opted to do something other than bake delicious gingerbread monsters.
How about a festive light up Spaghetti Monster? Yup!
I cannibalized a Christmas angel I found at Target for it’s juicy LED bits. and modded my little monster to fit the parts.
Cut out a little slot for the switch.
Slap some guts inside…
grabbed a cheap battery holder from radio shack
added googly eyes and a scrap of shiny vellum paper
And the results!
Stringer testing out the acoustics of the classroom. Calm down ladies. He’s taken.
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I borrowed a Cricut cutter from the space the other day. What the hell is a Cricut cutter you ask? I didn’t know anything about this thing, but I found out how amazingly rapey the company is.
Lets pretend grandma loves scrap-booking. She wants to cut letters and shapes out of paper all day and glue them on shit. Her neighbor Betsy’s scrapbook is tight as fuck, so Grandma decides to up her game and drop $300 on a Cricut cutter.
She can’t use her own designs on it, but it comes with a nifty cartridge that has one, very festive looking font. That’s fun for a while, but Christmas is coming up and Grandma has a hard on for snowflake shapes. The craft store sells additional cartridges for $30-&70 a pop. Continue reading