A woman holds an Arduino microcontroller. A group of rainbow-colored wires stretches to a breadboard below a piece of wood with laser-cut holes. Rising up from this support is a 3D grid of wires with LEDs soldered into it. Some of the LEDs shine red and blue.
Sarah working on her #Arduino 4x4x4 cube game!
Made on the #Silhouette Cameo 3 at our #VinylCutter station! You can see Jay's scrap pile, er, collection in our front window. #makerspace #cricut
During Open Hours from 7-10pm on Tue April 21, we're hosting Hack Night.
Pitch your project, form a team, and get to hacking!
See this and many other events at www.heatsynclabs.org/calendar/
More of the Catalan solids are in the works, so watch this space!
A bench in a makerspace wood shop, holding two similar geometric figures, one inside the other. The one with bamboo struts is much smaller, the one with steel struts about 10 times its size.
Rhombic Dodecahedrons (yeah, we didn't know that was a thing either) made with bamboo and steel struts, held together with 3d-printed vertices. The same vertices can hold struts of various lengths.
Screenshot of a Slack conversation. Someone posts a diagram of 3 "impossible objects" with the labels: "TRICHOTOMETRIC INDICATOR SUPPORT 0.0833 FT AMBIHELICAL HEXNUT (3.1416 REQUIRED) 10.16 CM RECTABULAR EXRUSION BRACKET" And they say "Anyone able to help me machine this?" Someone else replies "We do those all the time. Let me check the store room." And posts an image of one of MC Escher's "impossible" buildings.
We have a lot of fun on our Slack. Visit www.heatsynclabs.org for the link to join! #Makerspace
Several people sit around folding tables using soldering irons at a hands-on electronics workshop. The tables are covered with soldering stations, wires, tools, safety glasses, and small circuit boards in progress. A projected “soldering quick tips” slide is visible on the wall in the background, and more participants work at additional tables behind them.
Our soldering stations at #CactusCon were a big hit! Thanks to our many volunteers who helped set them up.
If you still have soldering to do, visit our in-lab soldering stations during Open Hours! See our schedule at: www.heatsynclabs.org/calendar/
@cactuscon.com
🔥 Teens, join Hack Club’s Campfire Game Jam at Heatsync Feb 28 - Mar 1! Build a game in 24 hours! Coders, artists, and beginners all welcome. Learn, collaborate, ship something fun!
Info: campfire.hackclub.com/phoenix
Sign up: forms.hackclub.com/campfire-sig...
#MakerSpace #GameJam #IndieDev
Flower Press Workshop Boost your crafting skills! Saturday 2pm-5pm https://heatsynclabs.org
This Saturday 2pm-5pm is our Flower Press Workshop! Create botanical keepsakes with flower pressing techniques. Learn to preserve nature's beauty!
Registration here: guestlist.co/events/812496
Check our calendar at heatsynclabs.org for this and many other events! #MakerSpace #Crafting #Flowers
A man wearing goggles and a lab coat with a gaudy gold "RRW" pin poses next to several radio-controlled robots of wildly different designs.
Hugely successful Robot Riot West event this afternoon! We filled the lab with people and everyone had a great time! (Favorite memory: kids gleefully piloting participant robots after the event!)
Big thanks to organizer Kyle Granat for letting us host it! robotriotwest.com #Robots #Makerspace
Robot Riot Battling Robots! Sunday 4pm https://heatsynclabs.org
SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! (At 4PM) HeatSync Labs in downtown Mesa hosts Robot Riot West! SEE robots battle TO THE FINISH!!!
Get free tickets or info about competing at robotriotwest.com
Hope to see you there!
Robot Riot Battling Robots! Sunday 4pm https://heatsynclabs.org
SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! (At 4PM) HeatSync Labs in downtown Mesa hosts Robot Riot West! SEE robots battle TO THE FINISH!!!
Get free tickets or info about competing at robotriotwest.com
Hope to see you there!
Because you're awesome! (Also a mistake on the past of this account's all-too-human operator!) 🙏
This Saturday at 1:30pm, HeatSync Labs hosts the Millet House Art Hive meet-up! Bring a project and supplies and/or use items in our craft cabinet. Connect with other creatives and share your skills. All are welcome. Invite your friends!
One of many events on our calendar! www.heatsynclabs.org
Wednesday at 7pm, #lockpicking returns to HeatSync Labs with the Lock Picking Clinic!
Bring picks if you have them (our host suggests you mark them). Focus will be on tumbler locks. The lab has some locks and lock picks you can use so no experience or picks required. #MakerSpace
Tonight during Open Hours (7-10pm), it's Sewing Night! Come and hone your needle and thread skills and learn the ways of the cloth. Beginners welcome, experts appreciated!
Check our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org for this and many other events! #MakerSpace #Sewing
#Karaoke Night to benefit HeatSync Labs is Friday at 8pm! You can sign up here: luma.com/pprtk8dp
See our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org for this and many other events! #Makerspace
Hack Your Hackerspace is Thursday night at 7pm! It's when members vote on proposals that will guide the lab into the future.
To make HYH available to more people, we have two meetings every month, one on the second Thursday and one on the fourth Saturday.
See our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org !
We have not one but two events during Open Hours on Monday night:
- Craft Night (bi-weekly)
- Plus build hours for the upcoming Robot Riot on January 25th!
See our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org for these and many more events!
#makerspace
Open hours
Saturday afternoons
from 12pm-5pm!
Come get a tour. Come make something!
Check our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org for open hours and other events!
Open hours
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night
from 7-10pm!
Come get a tour. Come make something!
Check our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org for open hours and other events!
The HeatSync Labs front door, with an LED sign saying "HaxMas".
Thanks to the hard work and questionable sanity of our hosts (including @monteslu.com), we are STILL open for #Haxmas! If we make to the end of open hours at 10pm tonight, we'll have been open a record-setting 85 hours!
C'mon down and make something!
A sketchbook with watercolor art showing a prickly pear cactus in front of a mountain sunset.
#HeatSyncLabs #Haxmas watercolor art!
An LCD screen showing a Christmas tree and the text "OPEN for HAXMAS"
#Haxmas 2025 continues! We'll be open ALL day and all night, until 9am Sunday!
Come say hi, come hang out, come make something! #HackerSpace #MakerSpace
A laser-cut ornament in acrylic, with a spiral hexagon shape.
More #LaserCutter ornaments for #Haxmas, this time in acrylic! @heatsynclabs.bsky.social
The front door of a makerspace with a Christmas tree, decorated with laser-cut ornaments. A sign above the door says "HeatSync Labs".
#Haxmas 2025 has begun at HeatSync Labs! We'll be open ALL day and all night, today and tomorrow! (Until 9am Sunday)
Come say hi, come hang out, come make something! #HackerSpace #MakerSpace #LaserCutter #3dPrinting #VinylCutter #Sewing #Arduino #RaspberryPi #Electronics
Saturday at 2pm: Make the house of your dreams in graham crackers including lights and candies to decorate it for the holidays!
$17 registration is required, and gets you materials for one graham cracker house. By all means bring a friend and work on a house together! guestlist.co/events/811290
#LaserCutter certification class Friday 7pm. Learn to cut and engrave, and how to safely use the lasers!
Registration required: guestlist.co/events/810948
No experience necessary. Learners under 18 can attend the class but will still require supervision when using the laser.
A "Longer" brand desktop laser engraver
Multiple modes For easy engraving Android ios Windows Mac OS Selectphoto engraving from phone gallery Engrave directly aftertaking thephoto EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH TACOS Drawing graphicengraving Enter custom text for engraving
Members eligible to WIN THIS DESKTOP LASER AT HACK YOUR HACKERSPACE at 7pm Thursday Dec 11 (tomorrow)! @virgilvox.bsky.social will be giving it away randomly to members in attendance. HYH is our meeting to discuss proposals to improve HeatSync Labs.
See our calendar at www.heatsynclabs.org !