tag:calagator.org,2005:/events/searchCalagator: Events tagged with: plastic2013-11-09T19:00:22-08:00tag:calagator.org,2005:Calagator::Event/12504651942013-11-09T19:00:22-08:002013-11-09T19:00:22-08:00Plastic Fantastic!Wednesday, November 13, 2013 from 5-8pm at Flux - Plastic Fantasticshttp://calagator.org/events/12504651942013-11-13T17:00:00-08:002013-11-13T20:00:00-08:00<div class="vevent">
<h1 class="summary">Plastic Fantastic!</h1>
<div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2013-11-13T17:00:00" datetime="2013-11-13T17:00:00">Wednesday, November 13, 2013 from 5</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2013-11-13T20:00:00" datetime="2013-11-13T20:00:00">8pm</time></div>
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<span class='fn org'>Flux - Plastic Fantastics</span>
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<div class="street-address">412 NW Couch St. Suite 222</div>
<span class="locality">Portland</span>
, <span class="region">Or</span>
<span class="postal-code">97209</span>
<div class='country-name'>US<div>
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<p>On a planet drowning in plastic, its time to learn how to swim. Join us for a night of hands-on, computer-free plastic working.</p>
<h2>Make your own rubber stamps!</h2>
<p>Turn leftover UV-curing acrylurethane "rubber" into ink-pad stamps with our DIY UV development box.</p>
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<h2>Customize kitchen gadgets and fix things!</h2>
<p>Learn to hand work medical-grade, biodegradable polycaprolactone, help make a custom funnel for a RoboCoupe food processor, and learn how to use this plastic to fix and hack broken things.</p>
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<h2>Weld plastic bags into new things!</h2>
<p>Hands-on heat tools available for patching together thin plastics and joining plastic bags. Learn to <a href="http://publiclab.org/notes/mathew/5-29-2012/solar-hot-air-balloons">make balloons</a> and turn old plastic bags into thick sheets of recycled plastic textiles.</p>
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<h2>Sew DIY vinyl raincoats!</h2>
<p>Mark Allyn will be showing off his custom glowing raincoats and talk about putting the fab in vinyl fabrication.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14397636@N07/9925617234/" title="spectrometer pieces by mathew.lippincott, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3773/9925617234_ea859b8db2.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="spectrometer pieces"></a></p>
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<li><a class="url" href="http://fluxlab.io">Website</a></li>
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<p><a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/craft">craft</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/diy">diy</a>, <a class="p-category" href="/events/tag/plastic">plastic</a></p>
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This item was added directly to Calagator <br /><strong>Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 7pm</strong>.
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