Summer Workroom hours

Hey you WOOFers! Our summer workroom hours are still every Friday, from noon to five. Come in and work on your projects, help with the boat project, or just hang out!

Workroom Hours This Week

Hey WOOFers,

Some of you have asked about when the workroom will be open this week. We will have at least one officer in the room after noon on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If you need help finishing your Grawmet 2 or want to help out building the boat come on in and get some work done. Good luck with the rest of your finals.

-Mark

WOOFers,

This is to remind you all that Seattle Mini Maker Faire is this weekend! It is Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm located at Seattle Center. College students qualify for the student discount which means a day pass is $10 at the door.

Take a break from studying for finals and check out what awesome things other local makers are doing.

Official website:
http://makerfaireseattle.com/

Hope to see you there!

-Mark

Sustainability at UW!

One of our "things" here at WOOF is recycling. Big Red feeds on the delicious flakes of milk jugs that we collect from the community. But milk jugs are hard to deal with. They're mostly air, so you don't get very much material per jug, they shrink a lot when you print with them, and they smell terrible.

We have been quietly experimenting with grinding up the forks, spoons, and knives used on the UW campus, for use in large scale 3D printing. The iconic brown utensils are made from a biodegradable plastic, PLA (PolyLactic Acid), which lends itself quite nicely to 3D Printing. Our goal is to divert these utensils from the waste streams and into our workroom!

To this end, WOOF has partnered with the UW Garbology Team! They have a ton of experience with the waste stream on campus, and we are very excited to help one another out. We're hoping to use this material to print some composting bins, which will, in turn, generate more plastic for us to print more bins... A never-ending cycle!

We've got a collection bin set up in Ian's Domain, located in McCarty hall, and hope to expand to some other cafés on campus. Please consider dropping your forks and spoons in the box (And keep it clean of other stuff, too!).

We're very excited for what the future holds with this plastic. Stay tuned!

(Our first print with the forks. Not too shabby!)