Matt Santelli and I picked up an old 3D printer today. It was donated by Lord Corporation. Ken Boone works there and set it up for us. Thanks Ken! Here's some info on it. 3D Systems http://www.3dsystems.com/ Actua 2100 solid printer. It was purchased in July, 2000 and taken out of service several years ago. It was only used a few times and in operation when it was removed from service. Should be fun for someone to figure out.

Erick and I crawled through all eight of the trailers looking for electrical supplies and pulled quite a bit out. We have a plan and will be doing a lot more electrical Wednesday. If you want to help with this non dangerous unpowered part of the buildout, Wednesday from noon on would be a good time for you to be there.

There is insulation to be stuck between the metal studs in the ShopBot room and dust collector rooms. This is also something we could use some help with.

I will start to create a list of things people can do and post it. I know there are lots of folks willing to help, but don't know what or when. I will do my best to rectify that. We are hoping to start painting the upstairs by the weekend. This sounds like a painting party! We'll buy the paint and supply food and drinks. Bring painting clothes. This is not set in stone yet, because we aren't sure the place will be ready. Sheetrock mudders are due again tomorrow and should be finishing up the upstairs by Thursday, I believe, so Saturday should be fine...... I hope! Keep watching the blog for more information.

Starting right now, we're going to offer just ten lifetime memberships for $5000 each. This will be a limited time offer and we're not really sure if we will need to offer them again. I am only offering this on the blog for now. If this does not produce the ten, I will send an email out to the whole mailing list, but for now, you have the first chance at them.

As you may also know, we are in our final round of funding so if you are interested in investing $15,000 or more in the new TechShop RDU, please email me at scott at techshoprdu dot com. This is the best time to invest in TechShop. Less risk, better payback and part ownership of TechShop. I can tell you more if you are interested. Shoot me an email and we can talk about it.

Once we get through the funding part, we can concentrate on the fun part.

Thanks,

Scott