Columbia Gadget Works

Victory is ours!!

columbiagadgetworks — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:43:58 +0000

CGW just finished first in the second annual float your boat for the food bank. We won with a time of 48 seconds. We also won the Modern Marvel award. The race was a fundraiser for the food bank and you can check out their website here: http://sharefoodbringhope.org/

Here’s some event day video of our victory.

Here are some pictures:

3D printer Pen

griff — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:03:47 +0000

Has anyone signed up for a “3Doodler” 3D printing pen? Check out http://www.the3doodler.com. The pen extrudes fast-hardening plastic so you can freehand draw in 3D. It is a kickstarter project.

1st Day of the Boat build!

columbiagadgetworks — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:43:20 +0000

Brad D was there too, but he left before we could get any pictures

Check out a time lapse of the latest build

matthewtwo — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:03:17 +0000

Now that we’re in a space, we found out we need room to put stuff! Here’s an awesome time lapse a couple members put together showing how we’re solving that problem.

CGW Found a Home

matthewtwo — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:21:43 +0000

We’ve found a space! CWG is in the process of moving into our very own, and Columbia’s first hackerspace!

Head over to our ABOUT page to see where it is.

Here’s our current, projected timeline for moving in:

2013-01-17: Normally-scheduled hack night at my house. Most of the night will be creating the operating rules for the space and discussing what facilities we will need to build.
2013-01-31: Hack night at Brad’s shop (assuming he’s up for it, otherwise my place again). We’ll finalize of designs created at last meeting, including required materials, and arrange to move in the larger items that CGW owns/is being donated. Last regular CGW meeting outside of the space.
2013-02-01: Move-in Day (Night, whatever). We’ll bring in the big items for CGW and get the materials for whatever benches/shelves/death rays we’ve designed. Also, we can stand around, drink beer, and talk about how cool our new space is. From this point forward, the bi-weekly hack night becomes a weekly hack night/CGW meeting on Thursdays @ 19:00.
2013-02-02: Build Weekend. A lot of woodworking will happen, I’m sure. Also, moving things around, hanging lights, setting up security cameras, and possibly starting work on building entry systems for members.
2013-02-09: Probably another build weekend. I’m betting we’ll have a lot to do. Whatever it is, we can talk about it at the first meeting in our new hackerspace two days before this!!!!!
2013-02-14: Haha, hack night on Valentine’s Day.
2013-02-15/16: Open House. At least, I’m hoping that by this point we’ll have enough of our crap together to show something to the public. Press release will include this event. We’ll have to put together a couple showcases of our awesome technology and probably provide food. I’m sure we can do it.

First Meeting of the New Year!

matthewtwo — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:01:49 +0000

Come out and visit CGW for our first meeting of the New Year! Bring a project or help out with one!

We’ll be gathering at Brad’s shop in the woods for another exciting night of hacking (Location details on Meetup)

Here’s a loose agenda for the evening

Review Bylaws ( Here and there will be copies at the meeting )
Set date to check out the actual space and finalize things with Gary Pauley (Brad, Matthew, Zach, and whoever else would like to come along)
Set date for moving into our new space (what do we need to have by then? Current list of stuff we want is here )
Hack stuff!

CGW Rock the Vote

columbiagadgetworks — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:06:05 +0000

We Are Awesome!!!

columbiagadgetworks — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:51:52 +0000

October 4 Hacknight
We take stuff apart, we build things, make stuff work, and put cool stickers on our laptops.
A CD duplicator was disassembled. Brad’s CNC mill is coming along, every week closer to cutting, and his 3D printer got another job. (a small test print)

At at the Jun 23 Columbia Gadget Works…

columbiagadgetworks — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:25:41 +0000

At at the Jun 23 Columbia Gadget Works meeting we did some experiments with non Newtonian fluids. Ryan coated a speaker he had laying around in red plasti-dip to water proof it in hopes of using it again later. Unfortunately the speaker did not survive the tests.

Hack Night

columbiagadgetworks — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:38:30 +0000

We have officially decided to go to the state fair!!! You can see us at the Show Me Robots tent. We saw many new faces tonight. The speaker from the last hack night was ripped apart discovering why it died. Scott showed off his cigar box amp.