Highlights from the December 6th Kick-off meeting Meeting attendees included Wanda Stewart, Miguel Elliot, and Crafty Rachel as well as 3 engineering students from Cal. We discussed the structures for the …
Show folks who step up a little love with a button badge!
Have you spotted these badges in our space yet? We’re excited to introduce a new badge program in which members can acknowledge and celebrate community engagement. AMT Badges are little tokens …
Fusion 360 Hangout at AMT
December 7th we started a new meet up for Fusion 360. The group brainstormed on tool-path creation and resolved to develop an understanding of multi-stage CAM processes that can be …
New Guide: How to Report on Assets!
Have you ever wondered how AMT tracks, maintains, and repairs their hundreds of assets?
Hoover Elementary School Edible Garden Project
AMT is thrilled to be partnering with Hoover Elementary School in Oakland for a community benefit project. With the help of a team of engineering students from UC Berkeley, AMT …
History editing in Fusion 360
The 3D View is “Just for Show” With most editing tools, the document you’re editing is comprised of the things displayed right in front of you. With a word processor, …
CNC Monitoring
At AMT you are supposed to stand over your CNC machine as it is doing a job and pay attention. Is it hanging up? Is it breaking itself or the …
TechShop may be closed but your community isn’t
On November 15th TechShop folded… and folks have a ton of questions. This post attempts to answer them as well as offer folks some new options we added to take …
Type A Rehab – 3D Printing News
A note from our 3D Printing Steward: I have great news. The Type A-printer upgrade is complete! It now sports automatic-bed-leveling just like the Prusa. Just slice, transfer the gcode …
The Vorpal Combat Hexapod
I demonstrated this fun robot at the last BoxBots build night and our general meeting last Thursday. Since then a few folks have asked questions so I thought I would …