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Weaving Station: One

Sacha — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:35:15 +0000

We just received a very generous gift of a Nilus LeClerc Loom, dubbed Weaving Station: One.

Jen is working on getting it set up and learning how to use it – if anyone out there knows about setting up looms and weaving and would like to have access to ours, please contact us.

Thing-A-Day Month: Day 1

avner — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:08:57 +0000

Thing-A-Day is a month long creative sprint where you have to make something new every day. Some of us here at Pumping Station: One are going to be participating. We’ll be logging our efforts here — enjoy!

I started working on a hollow book, and Tim Saylor made some incredibly apropos snow shoes.

Equipment Labeling

Sacha — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:55:49 +0000

We have a new equipment labeling and tracking system!

Here’s how it works – every major piece of equipment has a wiki page and a label.

The label has 5 pieces of critical info:

Name of the Tool
QR code and URL (of the wiki page)
Owner – (PS:One or individual)
Certification Required (RTFM) or No Certification Required
Do Not Hack (DNH) or Hacking is OK

The Wiki page is a place where you can learn more about the tool, whether it is functioning, safety documentation, person to contact, certification information, etc.

Feel free to go into the equipment pages and add detailed usage information.

Thanks to the generous folks at LVL1 and Labitat for sharing wiki code and labeling schemes with me – I stole a bit from both systems to come up with the PS:One system. Thanks to Dan Meyer, Shawn Blazak, and Tim Saylor for putting in a few hours of hard work Sunday afternoon to get the system up and running. Thanks also to Nathan Witt and Jim Burke for smoothing out bumps in the wiki template and creating video, respectively.

Tuesday Night’s Alright

Sacha — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:31:04 +0000

Announcing our brand new Tuesday Night Schedule:

1st Tuesday of the month: Monthly Membership Meeting and Board Meeting
2nd Tuesday of the month: 300 Seconds of Fame
3rd Tuesday of the month: Open House
4th Tuesday of the month: Workshop Day (a longer-format talk)
5th Tuesday of the month (when it exists): PS: One Pot Luck

All events are open to the public, occur at 3354 N. Elston Ave in Chicago (look for the red door) and start around 8pm, and doors always open at 6pm for schmoozing (use the doorbell if you can’t get in).

Since the foundation of Pumping Station: One, our weekly Tuesday night membership meeting has been the cornerstone of our organization. Every week, we met and discussed business, met new people, and showed off our projects.

As we matured as an organization, we realized that we don’t often have the volume of new business to support a weekly membership meeting, and we also had a lot of fun ideas for public events.

So, I’m proud to announce our new Tuesday night schedule – each Tuesday night is a guaranteed time that anyone can enter our doors and find more about what we do, and I’m sure that all these events will be a fun time.

Special thanks to Anne, Laurie, Tim, and Jeff for taking the lead on our new events!

Pumping Station: One is part of Something New!

Eli Skipp — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:51:33 +0000

Exciting event: tomorrow, Wednesday, November 11th, Pumping Station: One is participating in Chicago’s Something New roving art show. What does this mean? This means that PS:One will be open to the public (even more so than usual!) so that everyone can come see the constantly in-flux work of art that is Pumping Station: One. Projects will be on display, music may or may not be playing, and the whole place will be yours to peruse. Come and support us in our first officially artistic event this Wednesday! (and if the show inspires you, come to our Feel the Noise Hackathon the third Saturday of this month and get your make on).