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Sew-able monsters are taking over Do Space in May! Sign up for one of our Wednesday Big Littles sessions where kids 6-8 will be able to craft their own monster AND make it light up. We’ll do some sewing, so parents are encouraged to stick around. What we don’t sew, will be hot glued. Each monster will have a light up circuit, stuffing, and a heart--the rest is up to you! Register in-person...

Even after a year and a half of Do Space being open, I still consider myself a beginner when it comes to 3D printing. Sure, I can download a model from Thingiverse and send it to our industrial-level printers and get a good result. But ask me to send something to our enthusiast-level Taz 5 and it's going to be slow going. So I took a look for some "beginner tips" and came across this wonderful...

Are you a DIY vehicle person?  Through our resources page you have access to Chilton’s online repair manuals.  I remember trying to track these down at auto parts stores or the local library to figure out how to replace a water pump, replace my brakes, or figure out some wiring. This resource has a wide range of repair manuals from very old to late model cars and trucks.  Once you choose...

This year Do Space hosted our first Girls Who Code club, joining over 40,000 clubs across the nation! In August, we asked for applicants between the ages of 11 and 14, and then selected 22 members. The girls were divided into two groups, each lead by a fantastic volunteer instructor. (Alex and Juliet, we love you!) The girls committed to 40 curriculum hours that took place over the course of...

Continuing our discussion of privacy and security while online, here's a great tutorial from the folks at Lifehacker on how to set up an anonymous WiFi hot spot with the TOR browser and a Raspberry Pi. This one will take a little work to get up and running but here's a tease to get you started: If you’ve been thinking about trying out Tor to anonymize all your web browsing, you could...

On Saturday, April 15, Do Space hosted the OmahaMiniMakerFaire in partnership with Metropolitan Community College and the OmahaMaker Group, which featured 30 unique maker exhibits and attracted over 650 attendees. Omaha’s vibrant maker community came together to demonstrate and share their innovations with the public. The Mini Maker Faire also served as the platform for Do Space’s...

Summer tours at Do Space are now available for booking! We’re planning some big things for summer this year, including some new family-oriented afternoon programs, a new I Heart Do Space contest and a Summer Passport, but we’ve still got plenty of room for some youth group tours in our summer lineup! Do Space is offering a limited number of Youth Tours this summer between June 1 and July 31....

The folks over at WordFence, a popular WordPress security plugin, have developed a great tool to see if your home router is currently vulnerable to the "misfortune cookie." Here's some of the details of the issue:  Half of the internet service providers we analyzed have routers with a very specific vulnerability. This vulnerability is known as the “misfortune cookie”. We will call it the MC...

Scratch is a simple coding platform to introduce anyone taking their first steps into the world of programming. Scratch helps its users to develop creative skills as they develop their programs and find solutions to problems they encounter. Scratch also helps users learn to think systematically the way that computers work. With any programing language there are pre-existing functions and the...

In the spirit of the "Humans of New York" photo series and social media phenomenon, Do Space is inspired to work with staff and volunteers to create a "Humans of Do Space" series that shares the stories of our members, volunteers, users and staff. The goal of this effort it to capture the people that are using the space and how it affects their lives. What does it allow them to do? What does it...