Our first week of Summer Camp is in the books! From 3D printing and laser cutting to resin art, soldering, and cardboard engineering, campers explored the Nova Labs makerspace while creating projects that showcased their creativity and new skills.

Every year the American Homebrewers Association has a Big Brew Event where they encourage Home Brewers across the country to spend the first Saturday in May making one of their own recipes. I have participated in this for several years at Jay’s Brewing shop in Manassas, where Jay’s also partners with Downright Obsessed Homebrewers (DOH) to host a competition for local homebrewers, with qualified beer experts as judges, and brewing-related prizes. Since the first Saturday of

2024 Nova Labs Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race troupe. It is not hard to picture a kinetic sculpture, or a race. But when the terms are put together, all bets are off! Wikipedia defines kinetic sculpture races as, “organized contests of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art.” While this barely scratches the surface, the event does involve such vehicles and it is somehow organized, if you are not too picky about semantics. As for the racing part, getting to the fi

Ed. note: Darsh Nand is a member at Nova Labs and got married earlier this year. As part of a unique wedding favor, Darsh and his wife Katrina created laser engraved/cut tokens that were given to guests. Read Darsh's note about it below. My wife and I recently got married and instead of handing out favors to our guests, we asked guests to put a laser cut token (made at Nova Labs!) into a box. The box had an option to pick between two charities/organizations we feel dearly abo

By Steve Fritzinger Sharp tools are essential for woodworking. No one knows that better than a wood turner. When a 40-tooth table saw...