Instructables Makerspace Contest & Hackathon
Read More: Instructables Makerspace Contest & HackathonInstructables.com is running a contest for makerspaces with over $30,000 in prizes! YuKonstruct could win another laser, 3D printer, welder and more great equipment. HOW, you ask? By helping us post the most number of featured instructables (in yellow, below), and / or the most number of total posted instructables by the time the contest…
Parades! YuKonstruct at Pride and Canada Day
Read More: Parades! YuKonstruct at Pride and Canada DayTwo parades just days apart? Of course we had to join in on the fun and build a float! YuKonstruct won first place for our bubble-tastic float in the Pride parade on June 27, 2015. Just three days later, we redecorated the trailer and giant bubble machine in patriotic colours and participated in the Canada…
Instructables Build Night with Silhouette
Read More: Instructables Build Night with SilhouetteDid you know that YuKonstruct has two digital cutting machines, a KNK Zing and a Silhouette Portrait? These machines are perfect for cutting thin materials like vinyl and paper that will burn or melt in the laser cutter. You can also add a pen and use them like a plotter! On June 18th we hosted a…
Burning Away the Winter Blues: Building and Burning the Yeti Effigy
Read More: Burning Away the Winter Blues: Building and Burning the Yeti EffigyYukon Educational Theater approached YuKonstruct earlier this year to ask if the makerspace and Chris Lloyd, who designed the airplanes in the Winterval parade, would be interested in building the effigy for Burning Away the Winter Blues. Of course we jumped at the chance to build an epic effigy! Chris designed a snow monster, the Yeti,…
New Additions
Read More: New AdditionsIt’s exciting times at YuKonstruct! We recently added two new 3D printers and more square footage. Mojo 3D Printer The Mojo is a professional quality, easy to use extruder 3D printer. Form 1+ High Resolution 3D Printer The Form 1+‘s high precision optical system directs a laser across a tank of liquid resin, solidifying layers…
Steampunk Build Night
Read More: Steampunk Build NightIt’s Rendezvous and many of us at YuKonstruct are really excited about this year’s addition of the Steampunk Ball! While it might have started as a literary genre, steampunk is very much a part of the maker movement. The future as imagined by the Victorian era is a fantastic creative starting point, and makers around…
Valentines Day Crafts & Circuit Scribe
Read More: Valentines Day Crafts & Circuit ScribeOn February 12 we hosted a Valentines crafts and Circuit Scribe build night with help from Instructables. We had a table set up for people to experiment with drawing circuits using the Circuit Scribe developer kits. The kits include all sorts of fun pieces from batteries and LEDs to motors and potentiometers. The Circuit Scribe conductive…
Makey Makey Build Night
Read More: Makey Makey Build NightJanuary’s Build Night was sponsored by Instructables and Makey Makey. Makey Makey is an invention kit that lets you use everyday items as computer keys. YuKonstruct’s members had lots of fun connecting fruits and vegetables, utensils, tools and even themselves to the Makey Makey boards. There were apple and carrot pianos, pencil-drawn video game…
Winterval Santa Clause Parade
Read More: Winterval Santa Clause ParadeThis past weekend, YuKonstruct was a part of Yukon Educational Theater’s 7th annual Winterval Santa Clause Parade. Inspired by Aidan Chopra’s cardboard Grumman F4F-4 costume, we decided to make laser-cut cardboard airplanes for some of our youngest members to wear in the parade. The planes were designed by Chris Lloyd, one of our members, in…
Christmas Cards and Chibitronics Build Night
Read More: Christmas Cards and Chibitronics Build NightInstructables sent us a package of Chibitronics circuit stickers and we were excited for our members to get to play with them at our drop-in Christmas card workshop last week. We put together two project kits with the Chibitronics stickers: Twinkling Christmas Tree Card Glowing Snowman Card We also had 3 other craft kits for…