Posted in Meetup, Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2011
Thanks to the many man hours put into paperwork, defining our mission statement, creating bylaws and standing rules, and the efforts of all the membership in the creation of the Dallas Makerspace. It has paid off. We are now officially a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization! [See the official letter here! 501(c)(3) Acceptance Letter] This couldn’t have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2011
The Dallas Makerspace has officially moved into its new location! For several months now the DMS has been steadily outgrowing its location and set out to find a more suitable place to house the expanding member and interest base. It was a long process and would not have been possible without the efforts of all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2011
L to R: Peter Smith, Nicole Greeley, Leland Flynn, Glenn Pipe, Andrew LeCody Photograph by Steve Rainwater The Dallas Makerspace welcomed its new board members last Thursday. Voting was held over a two day period and marked the first official Board of Directors for the Makerspace. The board appointed Andrew LeCody as President, Peter Smith [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2011
Our own Glenn Pipe was showing off his R2-D2 on WFAA Channel 8 news this morning and wearing his Dallas Makerspace t-shirt! They were promoting the Discovery Days event coming up this weekend, so head on out and see R2 in person!
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2011
Cali Lewis of Geekbeat.tv recently posted an episode of her video podcast all about hackerspaces. Dallas Makerspace is featured prominently in this episode with Mark Havens demonstrating a Makerbot, Greg Needel showing off a holonomic robot, and Steve Reeves talking about vintage cameras. And there’s also some cool video of Mike Allbright’s laser tunnel.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 16th, 2010
*Photograph by Steve Rainwater Record numbers of bright eyed people shuffled through the doors of the Dallas Makerspace for the very first of our Open House events, held on November 20th. Brought by common interest, curiosity, profession, and a desire to connect with other like minded individuals, nearly two hundred people came out to witness [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2010
Photograph by Steve Rainwater On October 15th and 16th, Dallas Makerspace took part in TEDxSMU, an independently organized TED event sponsored by Southern Methodist University. A call was put out by the staff organizing the event to local artists in order to bring them in for an art installation piece that portrayed a specific theme; [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 1st, 2010
Pecha Kucha Night Dallas Volume 4 was held as part of TEDxSMU’s Idea Week on Wednesday, Oct 13 at the Wyly Theater. Steve Rainwater of Dallas Makerspace was one of a dozen local presenters given six minutes and forty seconds each to get their ideas across the audience of more than 300. Steve talked about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2010
Software Freedom Day is this Saturday, September 18. Dallas Makerspace is hosting the Dallas portion of this world-wide event that celebrates the importance of software freedom. In addition to giving away lots of Fedora and Ubunutu GNU/Linux CDs, we’ll have plenty of swag including lots of stickers and newsletters from the Free Software Foundation (yes, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2010
Want to learn how plastic grocery bags, laundromat bags, and other LDPE or HDPE plastic bags can be recycled into sewable fabric using common household tools like an iron, craft paper, and scissors? Steve Rainwater will be demonstrating the process at Make Shop & Studio, 313 N. Bishop Ave, Dallas, TX 75208 in the Bishop [...]
