![\"Students](\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/spacestudy.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
- \n
- 1<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2<\/a><\/li>\n
- 3<\/a><\/li>\n
- 4<\/a><\/li>\n
- 5<\/a><\/li>\n
- 6<\/a><\/li>\n
- 7<\/a><\/li>\n
- 8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
\nTopped with a self-healing, gridded mat, the drafting table is the room\u2019s central workspace. Makers are encouraged to spread out here, provided they clean up and put away projects at storage stations.<\/p>\n
As a fun project over winter break, Lam fashioned this working light saber replica. An aluminum handle contains the electronics, while a polycarbonate tubing houses the LED lighting.<\/p>\n
An appropriate find at the personal storage station: The Handmade Skateboard<\/em> by Matt Berger, \u201cthe definitive book on building custom skate decks of all shapes and sizes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schematics offer easy reference for chips and boards used frequently by hobbyists\u2014for example, the Arduino Uno, a popular board for basic data processing.<\/p>\n
At the electronics station, an oscilloscope can analyze electric signals to help makers work on creative endeavors like interactive light-up LED clothing. A soldering iron allows for circuit board work, while drawers house parts ranging from jumper wires to specialized high-capacity battery connectors.<\/p>\n
A wraparound whiteboard wall encourages spontaneous idea generation and problem solving.<\/p>\n
The Makerspace\u2019s first skill-swap session included members of the Mudd Underground Creative Collective. They swapped sewing lessons for tutorials in circuit board schematics with engineering students. Club leaders hope to broaden attendance so that faculty and staff can share their maker skills as well as use the space. \u201cWe don\u2019t want the space just to be for engineering and computer science student work,\u201d says DeRose. \u201cEngineering Professor David Money Harris used the sewing station to fashion some of his son\u2019s Boy Scout patches!\u201d<\/p>\n
Think of it as a \u201cperson-friendly place,\u201d say club leaders, a community space for students to chill, have a snack (away from the stations) or just lounge on the couch. Loungers: Evan Kahn \u201917, Zakkai Davidson \u201916, Sherman Lam \u201916, Sam DeRose \u201916, Senghor Joseph \u201917, Elizabeth Poss \u201919, Shanel Wu \u201916, Isabell Lee \u201916, Cassandra Burgess \u201917 (front). Also shown (at drafting table): Adam Dunlap \u201917 (second from left) and Alex Alves \u201916 (center).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Need access to a Dremel tool? Sewing machine? Vise grip? Enter the Mudd Makerspace. Spearheaded by Sam DeRose \u201916, Sherman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- 2<\/a><\/li>\n