Pumping Station: One

Pumping Station: One

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Chicago's oldest hackerspace! Membership is $65 per month for 24/7 access! If you'd like to join, please visit our open house every Tuesday at 8pm.

Chicago's Open Source Playground and Chicago's biggest, best and most original hackerspace/makerspace. 425+ members doing their brazillion things. Members only for dangerous equipment, guests (non-members) need a member to host/supervise them. Open house on Tuesdays at 8 pm. To join, see our website: https://pumpingstationone.org/join/ for a detailed explanation of what you need to do.

Photos from Pumping Station: One's post 07/20/2025

Are you interested in 3D printing, and want to get better at designing parts? Come to the Chicago 3D Printing meeting at PS1 this Wednesday July 30th! Free pizza will be provided by the host, Reprogrammed Designs 🍕!

Rhino is Vernice Riego’s go-to 3D modeling software due to its precision and flexibility, particularly when creating detailed, print-ready designs. In this introduction, she walks through the basics of the interface, core modeling tools, and the relationship between NURBS, SubD, and meshes in the context of 3D printing. She also shares key tips for exporting clean geometry and avoiding common printing issues such as open polysurfaces and naked edges.

https://www.meetup.com/chicago-3d-printing-meetup-group/events/307321045/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

05/13/2025

Are you interested in 3D printing? Are you unsure of where to start, and want to meet some helpful friendly faces? Come to the Intro to 3D printing talk at Pumping Station One next Wednesday the 21st. This talk will introduce you into how to choose your first printer, how to set it up, and start printing your first files.

Link to Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/chicago-3d-printing-meetup-group/events/304775084/

05/03/2025

Have a sewing machine that needs fixing? Want to get better at fixing it yourself? Come to PS1’s group sewing machine maintenance club! Every first Tuesday of the month at Pumping Station One from 7-8pm, sewing machine enthusiasts bring their machines, share tips and troubleshooting, and draw on shared knowledge in the community to help each other! No membership required, this is open to the public!

04/17/2025

Pumping Station One’s birthday party is next Saturday, April 26th, starting at 4:30pm in the lounge! Come join us for food, drinks, games and fun for PS1’s sweet 16!

Sewing Machine Maintenance with Henry Bangsberg 03/19/2025

Join us for the monthly sewing machine maintenance event. Bring a sewing machine for help learning to clean and operate it. Henry and Jorie will be helping people out from 7pm to 8pm on Tuesday April 1st.

Sewing Machine Maintenance with Henry Bangsberg Learn to keep your sewing machine in top shape with expert Henry Bangsberg in a free, hands-on workshop!

Photos from Jaime Andrade, State Representative, 40th District's post 03/19/2025

Thanks for the shout-out and support, Jaime! We appreciated the opportunity to host our neighbors at the Avondale Neighborhood Association and show them the space. Looking forward to future collaborations in our community!

Photos from Pumping Station: One's post 01/29/2025

In just one day at Pumping Station One, you can:

-Equip a kiln with a new control system!
-Cook a week of food prep!
-Fix the cabbing machine!
-True your bicycle wheels!
-Forget to write a social media post because you spent all day doing things!

Join us at Pumping Station and explore the possibilities of productivity!

01/27/2025

This is Femi.

Femi is building a robot submarine.

If you too would like to build a robot submarine, join us for a tour every Tuesday at 8pm!

01/26/2025

One of our members printed these TPU adapters to use a horse feed bowl as a splash guard on one of our pottery wheels!

It was originally going to be a masonry trough, but it was deemed unsuitably unergonomic.

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3519 N Elston Avenue
Chicago, IL
60618