Author: Community Liaison
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Celebrating National Volunteers Week with Tauranga Repair Cafe
To celebrate National Volunteers Week 2024, Tinkd Makerspace invited current and new volunteer repairers to an information evening on the 17th of June to learn more about Tauranga Repair Café. It was an opportunity for people who are passionate about helping others in the community, and keeping items out of landfills, to come together to…
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Our latest experimentations
Our Tinkd members have been collaborating with our makerspace coordinators to experiment with new materials and laser cutter settings and we have had some vey exciting results! We have discovered that paua, jade and other stones can be engraved with the laser (very carefully). Fabric is also being tested out and appears to be working…
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Tech Bug workshop with Te Puke High School
Te Puke High School joined us at Tinkd Makerspace in July as part of their ‘Choice as’ day, an initiative that encourages students to build a STEM focussed project. We designed a workshop for them, that involved each student building a ‘Tech bug’ from 3D printed and laser cut parts made here at Tinkd. They…
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Custom t-shirt workshop with Recreate BOP
What a day! We had the coolest bunch of people from Recreate BOP come to visit us at Tinkd Makerspace in July. We led them through a workshop that taught them how to adjust their designs digitally, send their designs to the vinyl cutter, and finally prepare and press the vinyl design onto their tee…
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NOW FULL – Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace during the July school holidays in Tauranga
Want to know what Makerspaces are all about? Come for a free tour of Tinkd Makerspace this July school holidays at Basestation 148 Durham St, Tauranga. Learn more about how you can get stuck into making with us – We will show you around our Makerspace chock full of equipment for 3D Printing, Coding, Robotics,…
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Come for a free tour of our makerspace during the April school holidays in Tauranga
Curious about 3D Printing? Want to have a go at robotics? Want to have a blast with laser-cutting? Have a passion for tinkering and learn by doing? Sign up for a FREE family tour of the Tinkd Makerspace this April school holidays. We will take you around all our zones, explain how the space works,…