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Freeside Atlanta presented at Maker’s Monday this week. Freeside Atlanta is a non-profit organization that strives to provide a space that inspires collaboration, creativity, teaching, and open projects for the Atlanta community. This was a great opportunity to get some help with your projects and meet some great people.

Much thanks to Igor Kondratyuk, Steven Sutton (President), and Alan Fay (Treasurer) (pictured from left to right) for sharing their presentation with us. You can learn more about Freeside Atlanta at their website: www.freesideatlanta.org

Click on the above flyer to find out about Maker Grants.

Details

Here’s what you need to include in your application:

• Description of your awesome project!
• Bill of materials for every part you want to order, up to $250 total
• Timeline for your project with detailed milestones (including a “midterm” presentation to Makers Monday at April 8 6PM)
• Personal info (past projects, experiences, skills)
• Show that you can finish your project in a semester!
• Names of all your group members (remember, groups must be at least two people and include one undergraduate lab instructor)

Email applications to Xo Wang (president@inventionstudio.org) by the deadline. The applications will have their names stripped and voted on by members of the Makers Club.

Grants will be paid out by reimbursement of personal purchases. It’s very unlikely that you’ll get all of the money right away; to get the whole grant, you’ll have to make a 10-minute presentation at Milestone Monday (April 8) or an earlier Makers Monday meeting about your project, presenting your progress and showing that you need the rest of the parts.

We want you to come and work at the Invention Studio! Please feel free to drop by and ask about the grants program.

Applications due: March 14 March 22, 2013 23:59:59
Awards notified: Week of March 25, 2013
Milestone Monday: April 8, 2013 6PM

This week’s Maker’s Monday featured Chad Ramey in a presentation titled “Arduino 101″.

Chad gave us an overview of the Arduino’s layout and functionality. Then he ran through three introductory projects that can be done by anyone who is just starting out with an Arduino.
In his demonstration he prepared code and a breadboard that made an LED blink automatically, blink on command, and fade on and off.

We thank Chad for his very informative presentation!

Hunter Scott gave a presentation on the many projects he has worked on throughout high school and college. He shared his successes, failures, lessons learned, and even gave us some insight into his recent experience with working for a start up company.

Thank you Hunter Scott for sharing your time and experiences with the Maker’s Club!

Thanks everyone for stopping by and enjoying some down time with the Invention Studio.
The pizza was delicious and some great projects were shared.

Much thanks to Chad Ramey and Twee Dinh for planning our Maker’s Monday.

We have some exciting new additions to the Studio on their way:
-Three Replicator 2 3D printers
-Three Replicator 2X 3D printers
-Three AO-101 3D printers
-Knights KMTG-18 Heat Treating Furnace
-K2 CNC Router 4′x4′ with vacum table
-Laser Cutter metal cutting upgrade
-Laser Cutter Rotary Attachment
-Tormach CNC

New Room (Design Studio)
We have a new room! It is located behind the lounge where the computer cluster was and currently has tables in it. There will be computers as well as the newly ordered 3D printers. This room is still under development and will be available for use soon.

I’d like to also announce some new student leaders of the Makers Club:

• Vice President: Gabe Ochoa
• Tooling Masters: Kane McKinney and Dan Hammer
• Web Editor: Cesar Roca
• Laser Master: Wesley Rogers
• 3D Printing Master: Jeff Landrum and Chad Ramey
• CNC Master: Matt Carroll

Finally, I’d like to give some more thanks to the outgoing members of the Makers Club (especially Vice President Will Borzon and founding members Claire Barr and Siri Belton), our wonderful supportive faculty (especially evangelist Craig Forest), the terrific MRDC staff and facilities folks, and all the sponsors who make our cause a reality.

Cheers,
// Xo Wang
// President, Makers Club