STEM Design Labs

Southern Ontario Road Trip: I had a great trip to Waterloo last week to visit the Communitech Hub for their open house as well as a quick stop at the Kwartzlab maker space in Kitchener and Diyode in Guelph. A big thank you to Christopher at Kwartzlab and Matt at Diyode for taking the time to show me around. These are both great places with lots of tools and therefore opportunities. It was also great to meet Ryan Consell, the artist in residence at Kwartzlab - amazing work ...and quite a variety of pieces! Everything from steel masks and armor to dragon skeletons. See my Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/stemdesignlabs/sets for more pics. Also visit for more info: https://www.communitech.ca/ http://www.kwartzlab.ca/ http://www.diyode.com/

Congratulations to Allen and Luke - winners of our Ottawa Mini Maker Faire #MMFO draw for the Arduino Inventors Kit and Raspberry Pi! Thanks for coming out to the ModLab @ArtEngine last night. We hope to see you both back with some projects!

Thanks to all who came out to @investottawa for my talk on "Introduction to 3D printing" last night. It was a great crowd with lots of good questions! I've posted the slides from the evening at: https://prezi.com/user/stemdesignlabs/

Draw Winners: The winners were randomly chosen by my assistants Nadege and 'Tini (Thanks girls!) and are: Arduino Inventors Kit: Allen Garlow Raspberry Pi: Luke Simoneau... Prizes can be claimed at the Modlab on Wed. Sept 11, between 7:00pm and 9:00pm. See more