3D Printing Near Me

**Get Your Halloween Decorations Ready!** Get ready for Halloween at **The Arcane Foundry** by creating a spooky decoration that's actually alive! Choose from a selection of **3D-printed Jack-o'-lantern and Halloween-inspired planters**, then paint and customize your favorite design. Once your planter is finished, you'll add a cutting of **purple and dark-purple Tradescantia (Wandering Jew)** and learn how to propagate and care for it at home. Its naturally dramatic purple foliage makes it the perfect living addition to your Halloween décor. **$35** - **Your planter, Tradescantia cutting, paints, and materials are all included.** No painting or gardening experience is necessary—just come ready to create your own Halloween decoration and take it home with you when you're finished. ### **BYOB and Refreshments** This is a **BYOB-friendly event**, so feel free to bring your favorite beer, wine, or other beverage to enjoy while you paint. **Light refreshments and non-alcoholic drinks will also be available** at The Arcane Foundry. Come relax, get creative, and enjoy a casual Halloween evening while you paint and propagate your own spooky planter. **Check out the website: =>** [The Arcane Foundry | Makers Studio](https://thearcanefoundry.com/)

From Gliding Together Ice Skating Social Club

Columbus Build a Scalable Online Business with AI

Wed, Sep 16, 10:55 AM

**AI eCommerce for Entrepreneurs – Build a Store That Scales** The founders winning in eCommerce are using AI for everything — sourcing, marketing, fulfilment. This masterclass gives you the same playbook. Everyone in this session is building something. Expect real conversations about what is working and what is not. Your seat is only confirmed once you register below. Do not miss out. ### [REGISTER NOW](https://aiventurelab.org/product/AIEcommerce?city=Columbus&groupurlname=gliding-together-ice-skating-social-club&startgmtdatetime=2026-09-16T10:55:00Z) --- What you'll build: - AI-powered product research and ad creation workflows - A scalable income stream you can expand without hiring - A marketing funnel that drives traffic without manual effort The entrepreneurs building AI-powered stores today are setting themselves up for years of passive income. This is how you start.

39 attendees

Columbus Arduino Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts (CARPE) (Check Location)

Tue, Sep 8, 10:30 PM

From Columbus Arduino Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts

From The Arcane Foundry Events

Bring your Raspberry Pi, Arduino, microcontroller, or any other electronic project and join fellow electronics makers for a night of creativity and collaboration! This session is open forum to share your current projects—whether complete or in progress, it’s all interesting! Whether you’re deep into embedded systems, exploring new ideas, or just getting started, you’ll find a welcoming space to collaborate, share, and get inspired. **New to electronics or curious about tinkering?** You’re absolutely welcome. If you’re a beginner and want to experiment, I’ll have a couple of starter kits available so you can try things out—whether that’s blinking your first LED, putting something on a display, or experimenting with simple sensors. No pressure and no experience required—just an interest in learning and building. While we continue to pursue a more permanent venue for this Meetup, we’ll be using public library facilities based on availability.

4 attendees

🎃 Paint Your Own Monster: A Halloween Paint & Sip

Fri, Oct 2, 10:00 PM

**Choose your creature. Bring it to life. Meet some new people.** Get into the Halloween spirit and meet other creative people at **The Arcane Foundry** with a different kind of Paint & Sip. Instead of painting a canvas, you'll choose your own **3D-printed monster** and transform it into a one-of-a-kind Halloween creation. Choose from a selection of **vampires, werewolves, witches, jack-o'-lantern creatures, and other monsters**. We'll provide the model, paints, brushes, and everything else you need. **No painting experience is required.** This is a **casual social event designed for meeting people while doing something creative**. Come by yourself or bring friends—the activity gives everyone something to work on and makes it easy to talk and socialize without the awkwardness of just standing around at a mixer. **🍷 BYOB & Light Refreshments** Bring your favorite beer, wine, or other beverage to enjoy while you paint. **Light refreshments and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.** At the end of the evening, take your hand-painted monster home and add it to your Halloween décor. **All materials included • BYOB • Beginner friendly • Come solo or with friends • Limited spots available** **Visit our Website**: => [Paint and Sip in Columbus Ohio (Fantasy and Horror Edition)](https://thearcanefoundry.com/paint-and-sip/)

1 attendee

NFT AI ART Columbus

Thu, Sep 17, 1:30 PM

From TechLife Columbus

4.6

NFT's are here to stay folks! This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more. **PLUS** This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.

From Hidden Mental Points That Can Make Or Break Your Life

Lessons To Help the Introvert to Extrovert!

Sat, Sep 12, 5:00 PM

4.8

Do you feel introverted when you are in a group setting? Are you shy? Do other people have more fun than you do? There are simple life hacks you can use to improve your connection to others and improve your social life. Talking is one thing. Truly connecting is altogether another. It's the whole experience of connecting with people and forming relationships. It includes the joy, understanding, and love formed among people. * In our meetings, you will learn: * A simple life hack to increase your liking and tolerance of other people, or even of yourself! * How to become more interested and enjoy conversations with people. * How to be comfortable in social settings. * How to be yourself * How to become more extroverted and, * How to make connections with people. Feeling lonely, isolated, or bored? This local meeting is exactly what you need! Come join us! Be sure to click on the red "Attend" button below to come to the local event. We look forward to seeing you there. This group is created by the Dianetics and Scientology life improvement center.

3 attendees

Prototype, Play, and Build Workshops (In-Person @GameArena)

Fri, Sep 11, 10:00 PM

From The Central Ohio Gamedev Group

From Columbus AI Engineering Meetup

We're going to GameArena! We'll be in-person at the GameArena Gateway for our monthly COGG Prototype and Play event. Come to play and showcase your games! We're back in the upper levels of the catwalk area. It'll be packed with lots of camaraderie playing your game(s) and other's games on the 2nd floor. Light snacks and water provided but you can buy food and drinks at the bar (alcoholic drink ID required). [www.game-arena.co](http://www.game-arena.co/) **Attendees:** Don't have a game to show? Not a problem! All are welcomed and invited from all ages and backgrounds. The more we can have to play test our games is all the better! **Developers:** Do you have a game that you would like to get critical feedback on? Would you like an excuse to work on a game with other talented artists, programmers, musicians, designers, and writers? Digital, table-top, non-experienced developers, and the like are welcomed! We'll provide signage for your game to help others learn more about your work. Wifi, outlets, tables, and seats (though standing tables also) are available. Come to the Prototype and Play workshop to collaborate and meet local game developers for an evening of epic and raw game play fun! Play works-in-progress, show off your own game, work with others to add polish to a game, or even lend your talents to other fellow developers. For this event, light snacks from the bar and water will be provided! Though you can purchase you own if you like at the bar: [https://www.game-arena.co/menu](https://www.game-arena.co/menu) Can use South Garage at the Gateway with a $5 voucher on your way out. 75 E 11th Ave, Columbus, OH 43201 [https://maps.app.goo.gl/UwgveUYG37Jy7RtS9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/UwgveUYG37Jy7RtS9) If you have any questions or comments, as always, feel free to reach out to us at [info@thecogg.com!](http://info@thecogg.com!/)

10 attendees

Local AI and AI Harnesses by Jaime Pardo

Wed, Sep 9, 10:30 PM

From Drunken Philosophy of Columbus

Building a Local AI Companion – From Hardware to Autonomous Agents The era of relying entirely on cloud-based AI is shifting, opening the door for users to build and run their own powerful models at home. This presentation explores the transition from renting cloud space to constructing a personal, localized AI assistant—think less along the lines of a corporate chatbot and more like building a custom, cinematic "Jarvis." For beginners, we will demystify the core benefits of running AI locally: absolute data privacy, zero recurring subscription fees, and the freedom from server outages or internet latency. It is about taking back ownership of your data and your digital tools. To bridge the gap between concept and reality, we will look under the hood at the hardware that makes this possible. We will break down exactly what an enthusiast needs to get started without needing an enterprise budget, highlighting the importance of a solid foundation—like an AM5 motherboard and plenty of fast DDR5 RAM—and the crucial role of GPU VRAM. Using a dual-GPU setup as a real-world example, the audience will learn how concepts like quantization compress massive open-source models so they can run efficiently on consumer hardware. Once the hardware is understood, we will dive into the software ecosystem that brings the machine to life. We will explore user-friendly inference servers like Ollama and LM Studio that make loading up models as easy as installing an app. For the enthusiasts looking to go deeper, we will touch on Unsloth Studio for fine-tuning models and creating custom LoRAs. The goal is to show the audience how to navigate platforms like Hugging Face, select the right model weights, and understand the metrics that matter, such as tokens per second and prompt processing times. Finally, we will look at the true potential of a local AI setup: autonomous agents. We will explore how to give a local model "hands" by connecting it to tools, local CLI environments, and secure Docker sandboxes. By setting up gateways to platforms like Telegram and giving the AI access to read and write local Markdown wikis, it transitions from a passive chat window into a self-improving, continuous digital assistant. The presentation leaves the audience with a practical blueprint for a living project, demonstrating that setting up local AI is an evolving story well worth writing. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

18 attendees

Drunken Philosophy: "What is Art?"

Sat, Sep 19, 11:00 PM

From Columbus AWS (Amazon Web Services) Meetup

Welcome to Drunken Philosophy, a casual, curious, social discussion club. Come grab a drink and a seat at The Oracle. Optional Discussion Questions * Defining Art: Plato viewed art as an imitation of reality can art even be objectively defined, or is it entirely subjective? * Artist vs. Audience: Arthur Danto suggests art is defined by its interpretation within the "artworld." Who ultimately decides what counts as art the creator, the critic, the viewer, or society? * Limits of Art: Duchamp’s "Fountain" challenged our boundaries of art. Can anything even ordinary objects or actions become art? * Art and Meaning: Kant argued true art should evoke "disinterested pleasure." Does art need to have a message or deeper meaning, or can it exist purely to please aesthetically? * Art for the Masses: According to Benjamin, mass-produced art (film, photography, digital media) can democratize culture. Does widespread accessibility improve art or diminish its value? * Art and Truth: Heidegger suggests art reveals hidden truths about existence. Has an artwork ever fundamentally changed how you understand the world? Can a work of art change the way an entire society views the world? * Art and Emotion: Tolstoy believed the purpose of art is to transfer emotions. Must art evoke emotion to be valid? * Cultural Impact: How do cultural backgrounds influence our definition of art? Could something be art in one culture but not in another? * Art and Skill: Does art require technical skill or craftsmanship? Should a portrait of a crude person be painted crudely? * Art Museums: Are museums gatekeepers of culture, preservers of history, or something else entirely? What role do art museums serve? * NFT Art: Does art lose its value or authenticity if it only exists digitally? * Moral Art: Should art strive to morally improve us as Plato and Tolstoy argued, or should it be free from moral duties, as Wilde proposed? * Beauty and Meaning: Can art still be meaningful if it isn't traditionally "beautiful"? What qualities might make an artwork significant beyond aesthetic beauty? * Rejection of New Ideas: Why do new artistic ideas often face initial rejection? Are groundbreaking works inherently challenging to accepted tastes, or is rejection more about comfort and familiarity?

11 attendees

topic to be announced

Tue, Sep 15, 9:30 PM

From WQC- Westerville Queer Collective

topic to be announced **THANK YOU** *Franklin University* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Franklin University*, please visit their website: [https://www.franklin.edu/](https://www.franklin.edu/) **DIRECTIONS** Franklin University Fisher Hall 300 E. Main St, Columbus, OH 43215 Map: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8) Parking is FREE! Please park in Lot C in front of Fisher Hall. See attached map. NOTE: Map the address only. When mapping with Google Maps it may use the Fisher Hall at OSU, which is NOT correct. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

5 attendees

Creativity Circle: Create a Creature

Sun, Sep 27, 5:00 PM

4.8

With air dry clay, pipe cleaners, popsicle stickers, paper, glue, googly eyes and more WQC has a collection of supplies for you to "Create Your Own Creature" or simply create what brings you joy. Seats and supplies limited! Come while you can for as long as you like! Westerville Public Library in Meeting Room C.

From WQC- Westerville Queer Collective

Queer Quills

Sat, Sep 12, 5:00 PM

4.8

**We are expanding our creative programming opportunities with Queer Quills, a quiet writing and sharing space. Queer Quills features some prompts, supplies and friendly faces to help get some inspiration or feedback for your writing. Hope to see you there!**

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