I mostly make things with code and solder, but lately I have been branching out into machining.
30ish year-old transwoman. EE/CpE, working in industrial automation / machine vision. she/her pronouns.
Wiki profile: https://www.i3detroit.org/wiki/User:Agmlego
i3Detroit has been the fortunate recipient over its existence of several generations of donated enterprise-grade hardware, and has been running a pretty decent network. The network computers serve several purposes: Running our phones with a VM of Asterisk PBX Managing space infrastructure, like the power meter that helps us split the power bill with our […]
Many hackerspaces have some form of notification system, allowing members to publicly announce that the space is welcoming guests. These systems take many different forms, but many boil down to one of two types of systems. The first is one with all the bells on, watching the space with motion sensors and people-detectors and automatically […]
Recently, we discovered that the dust collection vacuum unit for our LPKF Protomat C30/S was leaking powdered fibreglass dust all over the under-desk cabinet in which it lives. This of course being unacceptable from a safety perspective (powdered fibreglass is not a carcinogen, but is a major irritant in general) and from a cleanliness perspective, […]
Have you ever been looking at a computer, wanting to put software on it from a CD, but the machine has an empty hole where the CD-ROM drive would be? i3Detroit has been privileged to work with [lain], the creator of the isostick, a USB thumb drive designed to act as a bootable USB CD-ROM […]
At the Red Bull Creation this year, i3Detroit won a 40W Full Spectrum Generation 5 Hobby Laser with a 16″ x 12″ bed. This prize was awarded to i3Detroit as the Team Choice award prize. After much design work, purchasing, and duct installation, we now have the machine up and running in the Fab Lab. […]