Author: Heather Hogan
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Attach Things to Another
Lets talk fasteners, hardware, glue, resin, and methods. Questions to Ask Techniques Glue & Clamp/Hold Glues work best when aided with a physical attachment. Use glue AND a screw, nail or staple, a glue and a joint, a glue and stitching or binding, or clamp for best results. Use Appropriate Hold/Strength Any glue is only…
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You Need a Plan for Your Project
Avoid stressful moments by planning out your project in advance. A detailed plan helps you and Makerspace staff ensure that: Write your plan on paper with a pen or pencil so that your ideas are clearly shown. Things to Include in your Plan
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Dual Enrollment- High School and Community College
Start with the California Community College Application. You will need your students SSN and GPA in addition to normal personal data. Once that application is done your high school counselor will confirm the student’s status at which time the student can enroll at SCC for with tuition covered by SCUSD. More info: https://scc.losrios.edu/admissions/get-started-and-apply/dual-enrollment-admission-and-enrollment-steps What Students…
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Local Supply Shops
Tandy Leather supply Tap Plastics – From DIY to Professional Grade, TAP Plastics Is The Ultimate Source for Quality Materials Professional Plastics – supply store in West Sacramento Del Paso Steel S&K Steel – steel supply on Florin Perkins Aura Hardwoods materials supply in Rancho Cordova Auburn Hardwoods
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Ranger Laser Instructions
Hardware RANGER III 600×380 24″x15″ Laser Desktop https://lightobject.com/ranger-iii-600×380-24×15-laser-desktop Software The software used for the Ranger laser is LaserCAD, its a free software for PC. A few of the computers in the workroom have LaserCAD installed. The native file format for LaserCAD is pwj5. You can design for the laser in Adobe Illustrator, Corel, Canva, Affinity…
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Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV)
With heat transfer vinyl you can apply a design to cotton or canvas, it just sticks on. Sublimation HTV Use this as a base to then print sublimation OVER (dont print directly onto this product). Works on dark and light colored fabrics, T-shirts, hats, pillows, etc. Vinyl Sheets (Color Changing, Puffy, Solar) PRINT AREA: 12″x…
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Sublimation Printing
Sublimation printing is a digital printing process that uses heat and pressure to transfer dye onto primarily Man-Made materials. (source) How to create a file, make placeholder shapes-to-size, resize images, download a jog, drag and drop it back into your file, flip the text, save to PDF and print from PDF in browser. Three Printing…
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Canva for Design
Canva is an online, browser-based software that let you design items for printing on sublimation, stickers, laser and more. It has a free version and a paid version. We have a number of templates created at the right size for various projects that you can use.
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Learn to Solder Kits
These kits, made in Sacramento, are the prefect intro to soldering! We try to keep them in stock but they are popular!
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Inkscape Open Source Design Software (free)
https://inkscape.org All Inkscape projects may be exported in formats friendly to web browsers or commercial printer rooms. It is cross-platform, which means it is easy to run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux distributions. Visit the Download page to install or share this application now. Free CommunityInkscape is free! By this, we mean it…
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Adobe Illustrator
How to Get the Software Tips & Tricks Slides: Illustrator for Makerspace Cut lines for Stickers: Offset Path
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Sewing Tutorials and Patterns
For Brand New Sewists Basic Stiches Tutorial: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/learn-stitches-and-hand-sewing-projects-2978472 Sewing by Hand Sewing with a Machine Free Patterns & Tutorials