Cleaning and organizing wood workshop
This week and last week we have made some great progress at organizing the wood workshop. The new dust collector system has been installed, which allowed us to get rid of the big old...
Category: Woodwork
Course: Basics of Laser Cutting
Next Tuesday’s course: Learn to cut and engrave anything you can imagine out of common materials, such as plywood or acrylic. Gain the right to use Hacklab’s laser cutter. Course begins at 18:00 as...
New woodwork premises
Have you already been at the new Hacklab? If not, here are some pictures from the new woodlab.
Make your own mallet out of recycled HDPE
I had been gathering old plastic bottles for some time to try making something out of high-density polyethylene (HDPE). This material can be melted in oven to make it soft, so that it can...
Hacklab – a shared workshop
Today we had Hack the Lab event at Vaasa Hacklab, mainly sorting out and organizing the space. The pictures below show a set of tools we have at the woodwork side at Vaasa Hacklab. When...
Fixing a trailer – one day summer project
The old and beloved 30-year-old trailer is still in good shape but unfortunately the plywood floor of the cargo area was getting a bit worn out. Some holes on the floor and as the...
Laser Cut Sports Car M1
What would be better gift for an open minded crafts interested car enthusiasts and kid – a laser cut plywood car kit. The design is Rays_is on Thingiverse and cut from 4mm birch plywood at the...
Laser cutting balsa wood
Today we tested laser cutting balsa wood with different power and speed settings. Seems to work well.