Buffalo Lab

We want to announce a super awesome Kickstarter that just launched yesterday in Buffalo. Yesterday we went to the Thimble Kickstarter Launch Party held at D!G / Innovation Center.

Thimble.io creates and delivers a kit that will help you understand the fundamentals of electronics every month. Subscribers can learn to code, build, and hack with their monthly DIY electronics kit that are delivered to their doors.

David and Oscar from Thimble. io have been working hard to launch their first kit, a  Wi-Fi Robot Kit. From a makerspace point of view, we were super excited that there would be a subscription service readily available for anyone interested to get involved.

We were first introduced to David and Oscar’s idea when we hosted a roundtable discussion at the Foundry with Megan Smith, CTO of the USA in May of this year. It was a surreal experience to have people from different groups in one place to push forward STEM Education.

We’re super excited to see Thimble’s idea come to life. Please show support and check out their Kickstarter campaign: kck.st/1NafutD Every bit helps and please share with your friends!

Good luck Oscar & David! 

We were invited to Alden Primary School this past Friday, Nov 6, to participate in their annual Mother/Son event and host a 'Take Apart' workshop.

The boys and their mothers had a blast taking apart VCR's, DVD players, CD Players, keyboards, and etc.

We were lucky enough to be a part of Day of the Girl - Buffalo hosted by Zandra Beauty. It was amazing to see girls from various age groups come together to learn about soldering and 3D Printing.

We taught the girls how to solder and create a blinking LED badge. On the other side, we showed off our 3D Printer and started printing out mustache rings to hand out. It was awesome to see their eyes light up when they saw that their rings were slowly being made from a tiny printer.

Peter Cimino was awesome enough to bring in his New Matter MOD-t 3D Printer to our monthly Open Lab 3D Printing night. A year ago, he stumbled across New Matter’s Kickstarter and was lucky enough to be an Early Bird supporter!

After 60 weeks of updates from New Matter, he finally got the message that his shiny black box will be arriving in Buffalo, NY later that week. Within hours, he had his printer up and running and printing multiple bits and pieces.

Peter was fantastic on answering questions that members had and he had nothing but awesome things to say. We are excited to see all the nifty features that will come out!

For an in-depth unboxing experience, check out Peter’s blog.

This past weekend, Pittsburgh hosted their Maker Faire. It was hosted at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, where more than 200 makers showcased their work for other guests to see and check out.

We saw a bunch of nifty projects this year and can’t wait to bring them back to Buffalo. One really interesting concept was the increasing amount of DIY booths available at this maker faire. We were able to interact with a lot of the exhibits and take home some ideas for some projects we would love to show the Buffalo community.

Pittsburgh is a beautiful and amazing city. Can’t wait to visit again!

Join us on Saturday, Oct 10 from 12pm-4pm at the Foundry for Second Saturday’s! They will be hosting a Hands-On Halloween event:

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Hands-on Activities:

DIY Halloween Costumes - Need a cape for your outfit or help up-cycling a thrift purchase? We will have fabric and sewing machines on hand to help you make a one of a kind costume. No skills needed, just bring ideas and any clothes/fabric you may have. Tech Pumpkins! Work with Buffalo Lab as they wire up some pumpkins that you carve. Make them yell "BOO!" or laugh "Muhahahaha" ArtMaking - Continue helping with The Foundry's outdoor mural. Learn about mosaic tile.

The Buffalo Museum of Science invited us to be a part of ‘Featured Maker Saturday’ this past Saturday, August 15th.

We were delighted to set up shop with our robot cars, 3D Printers, and plasma speakers (just a sneak peek of what we have brewing at our space). As a token of our appreciation for featuring us, we decided to print out mustache rings for all visitors that stopped by our booth.

Join us on June 18th for the Second Annual ‘Bid to Build’ benefit auction hosted by The Foundry! Get access to unique items in the auction that are handcrafted by residents at the Foundry.

Buffalo Lab will be auctioning a 3D Printer. Get your tickets now and check out our space! 

Live Music. Tours. Drinks + Auctioning.

One of our attendees at Community Potluck & Project night brought in one of their projects to share: a robotic wheelchair!

It was a busy weekend for us in Buffalo: Arduino Day and going to the Buffalo Game Space Grand Opening Party.

This past Saturday, we hosted Arduino Day at the Foundry to celebrate the Arduino! It was a day filled with tinkering with new and familiar faces down at our space.

One of our special workshops was to build a ‘Line Following Robot’ which was a huge hit with our guests! By the end of the day, everyone took home an Acto Bitty robot to play with.

Thanks everyone for coming down to visit our space! We were very excited to see new faces at our event.

Aside from Arduino Day, we also host meetups on a daily basis. If you missed us at this event, you can always catch up next time:

RSVP: http://buffalolab.org/ArduinoDay

Two weeks ago, we hosted Raspberry Pi Day and now we’re back with Arduino Day. We had a blast hosting our event at the Foundry and we will be opening our space again for our guests on Arduino Day.

We will be showcasing Arduino projects that we’ve been working on, along with an Intro to Arduino workshop in the beginning of our event.

Buffalo Lab will be hosting a Pi Party 2015 at the Foundry on 3/14/15. We will be hosting various workshops throughout the day to introduce novice to expert Pi users on this festive day.

Come down to the Foundry for a day of Pi-related activities, contests, and giveaways as we celebrate Pi!

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