Downtown Tinkertank

If any of you know people in Washington state, please share and ask them to share as well. We have hospitals looking for help, and need more people organized locally to fill that need. Thank you.

Happy New Years, Modesto Makers! 2017 was quite the year for us Tinkertank-ers! We’ve restructured our business model, started designing and installing our own furniture, assisted on our first wedding (with another one already scheduled -- we can make the Pintrest things!), put on an entire summer school program (we made electric guitars!), coached a robotics team, completed multiple 3d-printed prototypes, created advertising props, etched glass, printed stickers, and lasere...d just about everything we could! So far for our 2018, we’re currently constructing laser-etched acrylic cabinetry, building a crazy floating white-laquered library (complete with sliding library ladder, of course), designing and manufacturing more tables, are assisting in Science Olympiad, and even have a few toy-design consultations coming up. We makers thrive in a creative community like Modesto, and are appreciative of the support we have received. Here’s to another year of making! Questions? Ideas? We’d like to hear them! Contact us: [email protected]

Is anyone out there excited about the TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE on Monday? We are! We're quickly laser cutting these pinhole projectors for a local school. We found both maps on the NASA website, but we put the pinhole projector point (on the CA map) right over Modesto. Make sure to observe this amazing event safely! UPDATE: We are going to begin running extra files of both designs today; they will be ready by opening time tomorrow (11 a.m.). We're selling each for $5, and AL...L PROCEEDS will go towards the Modesto High Science Olympiad Team. If you would to make this immediately/at home, please reference the following: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/downloadables . To repeat what they say, please print any pinhole projectors on CARDSTOCK and not paper (we like your eyeballs unburned). Don't hesitate to contact us with any questions! Happy eclipse viewing! See more

We are very excited to support our talented and creative maker friends Scale House Reptiles and August 4th Black HeARTs Market this evening at the The Queen Bean Coffee House! Event is from 6-10 this evening -- we hope to see YOU there!

If you're cruising by the Tinkertank today and hear some crazy loud noises, that would be our giant CNC cutting out 3/8" aluminum for an amazing custom table. This process seems slow, but the end result is going to be worth it (i.e. AWESOME).