Munich Makes Planet

Green lights 🥳

The team has been hard at work to get our lasercutter back up and running. New exhaust piping, and some rework of the electronics were among the needed fixes. Now it’s almost back at cutting again but we still have some fixes up our sleeves to make it even better

Chris is also printing face shields for the MakerVsVirus, as well some other helpers like these door handle addons to not have to touch the handle with your hand to open it.

If you need a face shield in your profession right now, or just want to support our efforts to provide them with a donation, go to https://bit.ly/makervsvirus-muc

The lab’s still closed, but that doesn’t stop us from making. There’s a great group of makers all across the country trying to help where they can make the current situation more bearable. They’re called MakerVsVirus, and make face shields and other protective gear that’s desperately needed right now. Some of our members support the local Hub here in Munich, like Joe who’s been printing holders for face shields and sewing making textile masks using some really clever 3D-printed helpers.

If you need a face shield in your profession right now, or just want to support our efforts to provide them with a donation, go to https://bit.ly/makervsvirus-muc

Dear members, friends and visitors of the Munich Maker Lab, sadly, we have to give you an update sooner than we hoped.

Today, the Bavarian state government declared the state of emergency due to the corona pandemic. This will take effect on Tuesday, 17th March until 20th April 2020 and forbids the further normal operation of our space.

This means, the temporary closure of the lab for everyone, including members.

If you have belongings in the lab that you’ll need within the next few weeks, you can still enter the lab. The access system will stay active. But only get your stuff, and don’t stay there for work or leisure. 

We’ll keep you updated on possible changes regarding the situation. In case of further questions, please contact us at vorstand@munichmakerlab.de.Thank you for your understanding, and stay healthy

Cecile, Nico & David

Dear members, friends and visitors of the Munich Maker Lab,  

due to the current, very dynamic situation regarding the spread of the novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) we will follow the advice of the federal government and the RKI, to slow down the transmission.Therefore, we will take measures, which will come with some restrictions for the operation of our space.

This means, in addition to the temporary closure of the lab for non-members that

• meetups, workshops and similar events,
• our opening party & our participation at the international hackerspaces open day 2020,
• internal meetings (plenum, cleanup, cnc-evening),
• open evening on thursday,

won’t take place.

This also means that the scheduling of the upcoming general assembly is postponed as the situation is very dynamic and we don’t know when this will change. You will receive a separate message for the scheduling of the assembly, once the situation is more predictable.

For now, the workshop will stay open for members. However, please refrain from meeting in groups.

Please stay at home if you:

• have disease symptoms (cold/runny nose, cough, elevated body temperature/fever)
• have been to a risk area for COVID-19 within the last 14 days (see https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Risikogebiete.html)
• you had contact with someone, suspected to have or fallen ill with COVID-19, within the last 14 days

For the moment this holds until 20th April 2020. We will monitor the situation and keep you updated on possible changes to this time frame. Sign up to the discuss mailing list to receive updates.

We kindly ask for your understanding, hope you stay healthy and nevertheless manage to finish some great projects in the meantime.

In case of further questions, please contact us at vorstand@munichmakerlab.de.

Keep it awesome,
Cecile, Nico & David

Check out our new electronics corner. We’ve done some decluttering during the move, and are still working on some new additions to that space to make it even more handy when working on any kind of electronics project 💪

What kind of project would you like to work on there?

Did you know we moved to a new space?

Due to building code restrictions, we had to move our old space, but luckily the city was able to provide us with a different space just across our court yard. It’s a bit smaller but we’ve had some time to figure things out, do some decluttering, and build some nice new features.

One cool thing is this mirror. There was a broken iMac in the old space which turned out to be an awesome mirror frame. How do you like it?

We were at CCCamp19 and for the first time also had our own little village. A big community tent, a pavilion and our personal tents made for quite comfy space and served us well. We had organised a few workshops, some of which filled our tent up to the brim, cooked some delicious food together, and worked on cool projects like our solar setup or some VGA projection art at night. Fun time, and we’re looking forward to SHA2021 for another round of camp fun.

We held our annual general meeting on March 31, where elections for new members of the board took place and other important stuff was discussed. 

First of all, thank you David, Nico and  Cécile for the past year and congratulations for being re-elected for another year. 

If you are interested in all other topics discussed on the general meeting, please check the notes on the Mitgliederversammlung Plenum Page (in German).

After the general meeting we held a Plenum:

• The new Code of Conduct was ratified
• An awareness team was elected. You can reach them at awareness@munichmakerlab.de or talk to Annika, Paul, Peter M., Severin and Theresa directly.
• All rules were combined on the Law and Order page and they were voted to be an official document

Thanks to Severin for taking notes and everyone who attended!

Another Week, another Workshop! Paul held the third KiCad workshop last weekend, teaching participants how to design their own schematics and PCBs using KiCad. Those designs were uploaded to JLCPCB and will arrive in a few weeks. 

Join us on our workshops, sign up for the workshop newsletter or participate in the workshop “SMD-Löten für den Hausgebrauch” (held in German, March 30, 2019) .