Archive:Newsletter

In order to show what's going on at and around the space, we've decided to create a weekly newsletter. Here's the archives

CW 42

Neberaum warning light

There's now a warning light next to the main door in the space, indicating whether the Nebenraum is properly locked (http://log.munichmakerlab.de/post/151951056930/every-once-in-a-while-someone-forgets-to-lock-the). If it lights up when you're about to leave, please check and lock the door to the Nebenraum properly. Note that the light only goes out after two key turns.

Soldering tip burnout

The soldering tip of our main soldering station wasn't looking so good. This is probably because it was left on for a long amount of time. Please always make sure that you turn it off after using it. Can't hurt to check whether everything is switched off befor you leave the space as well. In the meantime, we got some new tips: http://log.munichmakerlab.de/post/152119009665/old-vs-new-today-with-soldering-tips

LoRaWAN Gateway

As discussed in the last plenum, we're building a LoRaWAN gateway. Never heard of LoRaWAN? Check this out: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Wide_Area_Network. Anyway, here's our first shot: http://log.munichmakerlab.de/post/152211858820/setting-up-our-first-lorawan-gateway-well. It seems to work, but we didn't build any client devices for further testing yet. So that's the plan for next week...

All the social medias!

We have an instagram account now. Because: why not! -> https://www.instagram.com/munichmakerlab/

More documentation in the wiki \o/

Turns out there's quite a bit of stuff going on in the wiki recently. At least a lot more than before -> Woop woop. Go check that out over here: https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/Special:RecentChanges, and if you don't have an account yet, go to this place: https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/Special:RequestAccount

CW 41

New firmware for the doorlock

Our doorlock was suffering from some issues when entering the PIN. We put a firmware fix in; please let us know whether it works better now (or not at all).

Door sensor for the Nebenraum

There had been some discussions about how to make sure the door to the Nebenraum doesn't stay unlocked. Heiko and Severin went ahead putting a first approach into place: A sensor on the door, which is connected to our MQTT bus, and a light next to the door in the main space to show whether the Nebenraum is locked properly or not. What do you think?

Flowdock/IRC-Alarm

The alarm light found a new and a little bit more stable place, and is, against all rumors, working properly. Can you find it?

New Make Magazin

A new edition of the German version of Make Magazine made it to the space. You can find it in our little library corner.

"Zeug vom Tisch" Box

We rotated the "Zeug vom Tisch" box on Thursday. These things are now in the "Last Chance" box, grab them if they are yours: http://pasteboard.co/fLJKASELR.png

CW 40

Cleanup session

We cleaned the space Sundays and changed the way how and where the laser material is stored. Most of the "member-owned" material moved downstairs, the rest is on the left side of the cutter. The "Free to use" materials are right beside the box storage shelfs.

Plenum

We had our Plenum with lots of participats! You can find all the stuff we discussed on the wiki (as always): https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/20161009_Plenum

Lasercutter usage fee

We have an new usage fee rate for the lasercutter:

• 2€/10min for Members
• 3€/10min for Hammer and Shield
• 4€/10min for Externals
• 5€/10min for Commercial Projects

Tshirts!

The Shirts arrived, please contact Peter for yours. =) The ones with Name cost 17€, the rest 13€.

Stickorrs!

After our great shirts we want to print new Stickers! Ideas anyone? =D

"Zeug vom Tisch" Box

We rotated the "Zeug vom Tisch" box on Thursday. These things are now in the "Last Chance" box, grab them if they are yours: http://pasteboard.co/1ijfkK7PO.png

CW 39

Plenum & Cleanup coming up

October 9th, so in little more than a week, we will meet again for our next Plenum and cleanup session. As always, if you have something you want to discuss, complain, cheer on or if you want the space to buy something, add it to the wiki: https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/Plenum

T-shirts final call

We will order sunday evening. It's now or never. https://pad.riseup.net/p/Mumashirts Payment is due when you get the t-shirt btw.

We joined the IoV movement #bullshit

We are now part of the growing IoV community with our Internet connected vacuum. If you have a great Idea what should happen if you switch on the vacuum (besides spreading cleanliness), write in Main with #IoV

CW 38

T-shirts again again!!1!

New Designs! Thanks Jorgen! =D https://pad.riseup.net/p/Mumashirts We will order next week, so put your name in NOW!

Network Stuff

We got a new (external) MQTT broker. Big thanks to Matthias for setting that up, as well as doing so much other awesome stuff to our IT setup, such as decent monitoring, and mocing the wiki. He's also planning to setup another, internal broker, and a few more things. So buy him a beer next time you see him ;)

Lost & Found

This week's bin rotating somehow didn't happen, so one more chance to claim your stuff before it hits some black hole: http://pasteboard.co/oq8X8D0v.png

CW 37

Streetlife

So much awesome! Streetlife Festival was great fun. If you haven't seen them yet, check out our pictures of day one (http://log.munichmakerlab.de/day/2016/09/10). Let's do it again next year.

Hackathon

While part of the crew was out at Streetlife Festival, other went to Techfest in Garching, to win some prices. Congratulations to the ambitious and successful hackathon folks!

T-shirts again!

We were missing a order link last time... please put your name in if you like one: https://pad.riseup.net/p/Mumashirts Has anybody other ideas for designs?

Lost & Found

There are some big things in the "Letzte Chance" Kiste, make sure to claim them if they are yours: http://pasteboard.co/oq8X8D0v.png

CW 36

Streetlife

This is coming directly from the Streetlife Festival! =D Everything is running smoothly and it's great fun to be here! Come tomorrow if you like, we'll be here till 2200. http://log.munichmakerlab.de/day/2016/09/10

Multifactory Workshops

We ended the last week with two great video workshops, one at HEi and one in our space. Great fun, now it's off to make some videos. For starters, Lorenza and Giulio did two walkthrough videos of the space, check them out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XET8952wOg8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYeS7Y-0LE. We still have to work on the eWindow, it's not quite working yet. Maybe a geekend some time in October to get it fully functional?

T-shirts

Moar T-shirts! Who is interested in ordering new MuMaLab Shirts? Last time we got them from shirtinator.eu, for around 25€ apice (with two prints, on high quality shirts)

Marketing stuff

We need more stuff with our logo and fancy texts and pictures! Business Cards are almost in the making, some flyers would be awesome. Anyone willing to throw in their awazing design skills? Let us know. We should also do another stickers run, supplies are getting low. Any new designs?

CW 35

Multifactory

Last day of the eWindow workshop today. There's some software and electronics magic going on at the space later, and some more actual building of the windows at Werkbox3. Tomorrow, there's a video workshop at HEi, which starts at 11am. Feel free to join anytime. The second part of the workshop will be at our space again, on Sunday. I've heard there might be some BBQ going on in the afternoon on Sunday. More on everything as usual on https://multifactory.hackpad.com/Multifactory-Project-Munich-F5xvmQpW6Wy, and if want to take a look at the software magic, check out https://github.com/munichmakerlab/ewindow

Streetlife

Only one more week until the Streetlife festival. Who's coming? What should we bring and show off? Let's do some planning in the wiki: https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/Streetlife_Festival and on flowdock: https://www.flowdock.com/app/mumalab/streetlife-festival

Lasercutter

The lasercutter seems to be having some hicups lately. Looks like it's time to do another maintenance day. If you want to help and learn more awesome laser skills, check out the #lasercutter flow on Flowdock: https://www.flowdock.com/app/mumalab/lasercutter. In the meantime, please be gentle with it (well, you should always be gentle with it, actually).

Make Munich 2017

Martin let's us know that the next MAKE MUNICH will take place on May 6th+7th 2017. Please help us and join the organizing team: send us an email to info@make-munich.de. A kickoff meeting will be announced soon.

This Newsletter

Do you like it? Any ideas for imporving it? If you want something added, just drop a line with #newsletter in the flowdock main channel, and we'll try to put it in here. We're also keeping an archive at https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/Newsletter

CW 34

Multifactory

We did some more tests for the eWindow. Parts are in the mail now, so let's meet up on Monday, 6pm, at HEi for the kick off. https://multifactory.hackpad.com/Multifactory-Project-Munich-F5xvmQpW6Wy Also, if you know some JS and would like to build some software for the ewindow, hit me up.

Hydroponics

Peter is reinventing the wheel, with plants in it. Oh, and the watercress. It's spreading /o\

Money for drinks

We got a new cash box thingie for drinks money. Please put bills in the "big" safe box, and cash in the small one.

Streetlife

Streetlife is coming up fast, so Heiko is making some plans on how to do our booth. If you got any good ideas, share them with him.

CW 33

Multifactory Project Update

Small update, we managed to get a video link based on WebRTC going in preparation of the Multifactory workshop. https://multifactory.hackpad.com/Multifactory-Project-Munich-F5xvmQpW6Wy. Remember, we'll kick it off on Monday, August29th, 6pm, at the HEi. Join us!

Cleanup

Some major cleaning was going on before the plenum last Sunday. We cleaned out the free-to-hack shelves, which are super tidy right now (let's try to keep them that way). Thanks to everyone who participated!

Plenum

The plenum was productive and fun as always. You can find the notes here: https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/20160814_Plenum

Money for drinks

To something not so fun: it seems as someone is not only not paying for drinks, but activly stealing from the cash box. We will introducte a second, locked register for paper money. And please watch our for unknown persons throwing greedy looks to the box.

What grows there?

Not mold but watercress! Have a look at:

• http://log.munichmakerlab.de/day/2016/08/14
• http://log.munichmakerlab.de/day/2016/08/19

CW 32

Newsletter

We heard you like news. So here's the newest news, wrapped in a newsletter: We now have a newsletter! We thought about how it inform everybody about what's happening and went back to this. Because. it. works! ... expect one every week until we think differently about that (or we forget about it). If you have something that should go in the Newsletter: Post it into 'Main' in Flowdock and attach the #newsletter hashtag.

Street Life Festival

We have our own booth at the next Street Life Festival! A small one, about as wide as Severin's Fire truck. Which will be on there to provide power and Mate. It's on the weekend from the 10 - 11 September. Find more info here: http://www.streetlife-festival.de/ ... BeeDooBeeDooo

Multifactory Project

You know what's cool? One makerspace. You know what's even cooler? More makerspaces! That's what the Offene Werkstätten folks thought, so they started an initative to get the spaces in Munich to collaborate. Together with FabLab, HEi and Werkbox3, we will take part in the first Multifactory Project workshop week, from August 29th til September 9th. There'll be two parts, a 2 day video workshop where we'll create some videos about our spaces, and a 2+ days workshop to build eWindows (video connections between the spaces). You can find more informaation at http://www.offene-werkstaetten.org/seite/multifactory-netzwerk and the full schedule at https://multifactory.hackpad.com/Multifactory-Project-Munich-F5xvmQpW6Wy. We'll kick it off on Monday, August29th, 6pm, at the HEi. Join us!

Plenum & cleanup

The next Plenum and cleanup session is on the 14. August. We will start at 1400 to clean, and will start the Plenum right after. Part of the cleanup is looking at the stuff in free-to-use and sort the trash out. If you have some stuff for the Plenum, go right here: https://wiki.munichmakerlab.de/wiki/Plenum

PS

Use #stream in Flowdock to update our 'Stream of consciousness' Twitter account: stream_of_muma