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Hey everybody!ย Welcome to the Make or Break Shop Community.
We are makers of all types from around the world.ย Whether you work with wood, metal, digital fabrication, electronics, etc... this is a place to connect, learn and share the incredible things that you've made.ย Here are a few guidelines to make yourself at home:
- Fill your profile.ย Add a tag line (most people will pick they type of things they like to make), description, and links to your personal website, Instagram, etc.
- Introduce Yourself.ย Create a new topic in this channel and tell us about yourself!ย Just hit the button above (like the screenshot below)
- Start a build log.ย One of the easiest ways to get involved is to start a build log about what you're making in the Build Log Channel.ย Whether it's a year long dream project or something that will take a weekend, post it and ask questions and get feedback!
- Start or join a conversation.ย You can navigate the channels on the left hand side.ย These are similar to channels in Slack or Discord and are centered around a specific making subjects.ย If there is a channel you would like to add just let me know!
- Foster thoughtful conversations.ย While channels are similar to Slack and Discord this community isn't designed to be an avalanche of notifications, where you feel like you've got to read everything in real time to stay on top of it.ย The Make or Break community is designed to be asynchronous, slow and intentional conversations.ย I've taken huge inspirations from the old school forums on the past (some of my favorites are the R2 Builders Club, The Replica Prop Forum and Lumberjocks Forum)..but with an updated and fresh approach.
- Make it yours.ย This is your community. Got a question, suggestion or feedback?ย Want to organize a new interest group or host an event?ย Please share in the Feedback & Suggestions channel.
That's it!ย I can't wait to grow this community alongside you as we all learn how to become better makers.
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[Intro] Your name
1. Where I'm based
2. The types of things I love to make.
3. My main gig.
4. My side gig
5. Some of my favorite makers.
Recently retired, love woodworking, fishing and gardening. live near beautiful Pensacola Florida. Look forward to learning 360.ย
Stumbled on this today . Just enrolled and watching the course - really good thankyou .ย
I am just aย DIY enthusiast. realising as I am nearly at the 50 mark I need to think about long term hobbys . Woodworking really appeals. just love making things as my day job is management and IT. I am hoping as the kids start to grow up and move on I may have more time so have a long term plan to build out my toolset, and skills, build myself a decent workshop or shop as referred too in the states and start creating. My first major project will be a design and build of my own kitchen. My wife thinks I have gone crazy and although I know it may not be cheaper I think it will be better. My only problem is I am slow but for what we are doing we are repositioning our kitchen so I can actually build whilst leaving the old one completely alone. Huge opportunity. Am going to build the frame out of decent birch ply and fronts with 22 or 25 mm moisture resistant MDF .ย
Christmas will kick this off with my present being a router ( hoping for the Triton TRA001 ), this will be swiftly followed by the kreg K5 jig amongst other things.ย
I dabbled last summer making hand built dovetails - so looking forward to getting a dovetail jig to use with the router.ย
Fusion 360 quite frankly is flippin' awesome. Although as I am still in learning mode I have redone the same cabinet about ten times - discovering better and new ways to do it.
To help persuade the missus - I will build a new workbench first - and I have said ill paint up the drawers etc as I would for the kitchen so she can see I can do it ...ย
currently struggling on the whole using brushes versus sprayer - can't quite justify the cost or space for a sprayer so hoping I get the best tips / good quality rollers to do it the old fashioned way ...ย
I also am very active in our local church - which has just got a huge new building - so no doubt there will be project opportunities their.ย
Loving the idea of this community - thanks for setting it up ..ย
Be really keen to see if there any other UK based folk - because I need to start building a list of decent suppliers etc for my wood and tools here in the uk .ย
I am just aย DIY enthusiast. realising as I am nearly at the 50 mark I need to think about long term hobbys . Woodworking really appeals. just love making things as my day job is management and IT. I am hoping as the kids start to grow up and move on I may have more time so have a long term plan to build out my toolset, and skills, build myself a decent workshop or shop as referred too in the states and start creating. My first major project will be a design and build of my own kitchen. My wife thinks I have gone crazy and although I know it may not be cheaper I think it will be better. My only problem is I am slow but for what we are doing we are repositioning our kitchen so I can actually build whilst leaving the old one completely alone. Huge opportunity. Am going to build the frame out of decent birch ply and fronts with 22 or 25 mm moisture resistant MDF .ย
Christmas will kick this off with my present being a router ( hoping for the Triton TRA001 ), this will be swiftly followed by the kreg K5 jig amongst other things.ย
I dabbled last summer making hand built dovetails - so looking forward to getting a dovetail jig to use with the router.ย
Fusion 360 quite frankly is flippin' awesome. Although as I am still in learning mode I have redone the same cabinet about ten times - discovering better and new ways to do it.
To help persuade the missus - I will build a new workbench first - and I have said ill paint up the drawers etc as I would for the kitchen so she can see I can do it ...ย
currently struggling on the whole using brushes versus sprayer - can't quite justify the cost or space for a sprayer so hoping I get the best tips / good quality rollers to do it the old fashioned way ...ย
I also am very active in our local church - which has just got a huge new building - so no doubt there will be project opportunities their.ย
Loving the idea of this community - thanks for setting it up ..ย
Be really keen to see if there any other UK based folk - because I need to start building a list of decent suppliers etc for my wood and tools here in the uk .ย
Hi I'm Ben Schilderman I'm from the Netherlands. I study Creative Craftsmanshipย on school (designing and making furniture), this year is my final year. I learned to model in Vectorworks but I was never happy with the results now I'm going to try out Fusion 360.
Some pictures of stuff I made:
Some pictures of stuff I made:
Hello all! Brian and Jill here and we are excited to learn Fusion. We are getting our one car garage woodworking shop up and running and hoping to expand from hobby to business. We hope to be able to use Fusion for furniture design. We also signed up for the CAM course as we have a new CNC machine arriving in December. Lots to learn and excited to be a part of this community! Thanks!!
hey, this is Cedric Cogell "Kedrick" and Im here trying to learn Fusion 360 with the aim to eventually build out a house using the wiki house system by CNC routing plywood and piecing it all together!
Im planning to start with a smaller structure like a sauna. The we'll reevaluate the whole house thing๐ค
Check out https://www.wikihouse.cc/ and the old stable system is here https://github.com/wikihouseproject/Wren tho it seems the team is set to release a new system they've had in R&D for a while.
Check out https://www.wikihouse.cc/ and the old stable system is here https://github.com/wikihouseproject/Wren tho it seems the team is set to release a new system they've had in R&D for a while.
I'm from Ireland, I work in the cloud computing end of the tech industry, and I have an endless stream of DIY/woodworking projects to do on the smallholding that my wife and I look after.ย
After a couple of false starts with Fusion 360 your course sounds like exactly what I need Brandon, so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in.ย
Thanks :)
After a couple of false starts with Fusion 360 your course sounds like exactly what I need Brandon, so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in.ย
Thanks :)
Thanks for jumping in!ย Just checked out your site, love the loft bed, I might have to borrow some ideas for that for my kids room!
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