North Forge Fabrication Lab

North Forge Fabrication Lab is a membership-based shop in the Exchange District. We hold a membership there, which gives us access to many tools.

Projects done at North Forge:

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  Rowing themed custom belt buckles
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  Positioner sleeve for mouse thigh bone marrow extraction
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  MediaWiki kiosk running on a Raspberry Pi 4B
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  Audiovisual display of a children's book being read in Orkadian.
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  A display where a ship's wheel controls a virtual ship on a screen to demonstrate how Range Lights work
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  Rotary dial phone that pays sound files
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  Display where a user pulls a handle on a rope and one random sound is played
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  Tabletop training kit for rowing umpires
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  Audio display
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  Adapter plate for electric outboard conversion
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  Museum audio display that plays a short recording.
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  Museum display that plays sound when a wooden wheel is turned.
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  Museum display that turns choosing potential activities during the Metis year into an interactive puzzle
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  Museum display that will play audio when it detects the presence of visitors.
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  Audio display where visitor presses a button and listens to a recording in Bungi
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  Puzzle that unlatches a cabinet if LED candles being blown out in a specific order.
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  Critical Care and Medicine Database wiki
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  A set of MS Access programs for collection, data processing and data storage for a medical database.
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  MS Access program using VBA to automate mailing personalized reports to >1000 people
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  File that plays DTMF tones based on numeric entries in an Excel file.
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  Wiki to document administrative processes for the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba
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  Remote, off-grid monitoring and automation
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  This wiki
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  Conversion of a losely structured Mediawiki to a more highly structured format using facilitated editing
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  A tape measure that changes how far it is unrolled based on a value on a mediawiki page.
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  Battery operated display that uses a rope pull to turn on an audio file and LED backlighting.
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  Cut in a piece of wood to precisely match a piece of glass artwork.
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  Wall port to exhaust a room air conditioner through wall rather than through window, with cover for winter.
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  Custom-molded rain cover for Brooks leather saddle (or any other bike seat)
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  A way to mount the block heater plug on the bumper
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  Custom fit winter cover for the vents in a bumper.
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  SPD standard clip-in foot stretchers for a rowing shell
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  Tab joined foot stool
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  Soap rack custom fit to a sink
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  Pipe mounted dish glove rack
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  Rack for keys and mail with weather station
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  Wall mounted floating nightstands
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  Font with minimum size for routing with a rotary bit.
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  Hat bands with a rower's sillhouette
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  Adapter between coffee grinder and Espresso maker pod
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  Through tenons for a joint that spell out words
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  Oar rack
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  Rubber mat replacement for antique car
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  Recycled jar labelled by Masked Sandblasting using vinyl mask.
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  Wood with grain exposed through Masked Sandblasting
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  A guide to help maintain the angle of a triangular file when sharpening saws.
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  Soft Shackle Microleash
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  Custom stand to store shampoo bottles upside down.
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  Sensors and a computer connected to a rowing ergometer to interpret technique and provide improvement suggestions
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  Gadget that measures how quickly the user responds to a cue and moves an accelleration sensor.
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  Ceiling lamp based on what a resting rowing shell would look like from under water.
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  Vector graphic of the winnipeg skyline
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  A mobile cabinet to store and transport my woodworking hand planes.

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Actioned 2021-10-31

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• Cargo

Add list of tools query, but for that I need to fix up tools in general first.