My name is J.R. Logan and I'm going to give you a quick tour of MakeHaven. Lets Go in.
First of all we have our little kitchen here we have equipment for canning, a sous vide, a dehydrator,
all sorts of stuff. Not a commercial kitchen, but in the experimental maker-kitchen
if you come along here past our coffee and tea section we have the
HERMS (Heat Exchange Recirculating Mash System) this is a brewing, prototyping kit.
We have a small conference room with video equipment for a doing like a Kickstarter video, that sort of thing
Over here we have a printmaking area with screen printing and various printing presses.
In fact in our main community area there's a woodblock carving printmaking workshop happening right now
We hold classes activities in this area quite frequently
come over here you see that we have lots of 3d printing examples and a whole
cadre... a grouping of 3d printers including a filament splicer which is fun it allows
you to use multiple colors and multiple materials. Moving further on you can see we have a communications bench
this is where we might put servers but we have ham radio
we have some antennas up on the roof anything using electromagnetic waves
or signals to send communications. In our craft and sewing area we have a variety of
different sewing machines, including some old-school ones that some people prefer because they have more power
and you have lots of craft equipment that we pull out, so things for glass cutting
for bottles or stained glass, soap making with other other equipment like that
Our electronics and workbench, you will notice there's lots of drones
there's examples of boards people made here, there's a full set of components used or prototyping
and working with electronics and soldering
further up we have a CNC machine which is used for milling metal and then
beyond that are these laser cutters and they are awesome for being able to cut a
very precise pieces of wood they're doing a little session there so we'll
pass by quickly point out where the examples are
and then vinyl cutting which is where you cut a thin membrane of plastic or vinyl
it's used for all these signs, t-shirts, it's great for masking. There's lots of awesome things
you can do with vinyl, including cutting flexible circuits
you see there's an example of a flexible circuit over there. So lets move forward.
You see the example on that shelf some wood-cut things.
Example circuit board. That is the vinyl machine that does it.
As we go forward this is a quilting CNC machine, so it could be programmed to
make a quilt or section of a quilt design. We have a mechanics and bike repair equipment.
and folks interested in that.
And then we have a plastics area
so this is a vacuum former which makes thin sheets and forms
those sheets into a specific shape. We have a resin printer, awesome for
really detailed 3d prints, a little injection molder, casting equipment
casting pots... We are generally using a silicon rubber and then doing something in plastic
and all that is done in this section. I'm going to take us into the wood shop with my
safety goggles on!
In the woodshop we have full hand tool and general portable tools area.
you can see member Jen here, working on a very cool project created using wood and resin.
As you come over here you there is a selection of really fine hand-tools ... and this bench as well as another bench that we're building,
which was made by one of our numbers, allows people to do a lot of precision hand-tool work.
totally beyond that we have all of the standard tools you would expect in a woodshop
you see a table router, sander, drill press, multiple band saws
a planer for smoothing out your wood. A lathe for making turned shapes. A jointer for
getting that first right angle for starting the process and preparing your wood.
A Saw Stop table saw which means that it has that mechanism which allows it to recognize
your fingers there and immediately stop. A chop saw. We have a small CNC router so
that means it's programmable, put whatever shape in it via the computer, it
will cut it out for you. And then we have a big Daddy version of that we can
program to do up to eight by four or five feet as far as a project which is
awesome for being able to do furniture scale work.
So that gives you a brief tour of MakeHaven, the FabLab and makerspace, here in New Haven Connecticut