Tampa Hackerspace

NEXT SUNDAY! Come Celebrate Star Wars Day (one day early) at Tampa Hackerspace!

- Trivia (With prizes!)
- Star Wars screening
- Potluck ~ Bringing food, drinks, or snacks is encouraged!
- Other games and festivities
- Bring your droids, lightsabers, blasters, or cosplay!

May the Fourth falls on a Monday this year, so we're celebrating one day early. Join us for an out-of-this-world Star Wars Day celebration on Sunday, May 3rd, at Tampa Hackerspace.

Come visit us today at Gulf Coast Maker Con!

Back by popular demand! Join Mackenna's Marvelous Quilting 101 Class this Sunday!
Sign up for Mackenna's quilting classes (and all of our other super cool classes) now directly from our website.

As a reminder, our quarterly member meeting is today, Tuesday, February 3rd at 7:00PM.

We will still be hosting our Open Make Night and giving tours today. However, there will be a brief break from tours and orientations at 7:00PM for the meeting.

Hey members! Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Let’s Play with Clay this Saturday, 2PM at Tampa Hackerspace.

We’re hosting a trial run for clay/ceramics classes this weekend. We’re limiting this run to current members (and their guests). See meetup for details.

Today’s showing of Hogfather has been canceled.

❄️THS 3D PRINTING ADVENT CALENDAR❄️
❄️☃️❄️ DECEMBER 25TH BONUS❄️☃️❄️
BONUS PRINT – High Speed Propeller Launcher

If you root around on our Instagram or TikTok a little, you’ll come across an in-shop demonstration video with our own Peter H. playing with a neat little gear multiplying propeller launcher. As it turns out, the design is completely printable, and we’re sharing it with you for this year’s AC Bonus Round. This thing has probably the clearest assembly video I’ve seen in a long time, and the parts are arranged in such a way to make printing in different colors simple, giving you batches of parts easy to identify for precise placement in assembly. Be sure to read the instructions carefully, and don’t ignore the warnings. This thing really does launch at high speed, so make sure not to aim it at any living things or fragile objects. (Ceilings are fine, so long as you’re not in between the propeller and the tiles and/or popcorn.)

That’s all for us this year. If you’ve got any makes from this year’s builds, be sure to tag us with . We’ll be back next year with more 3D printing fun we’ve found during the year, and in the meantime, come visit us! We have Open Makes on Tuesday evenings starting at 6PM.

Many thanks to Jake Williams for managing socials for this year’s festival, and continued, deep thanks to Don Willingham for managing the Wiki listing for everything we’ve been putting through for you this (and every!) year. Special thanks to Peter Harshberger for the lead-in we could use for our Bonus Round.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and Happy Printing! - Paula Sandusky, Tampa Hackerspace 3D Printing Steward