These are just a small sampling of some of the things our Krewe/members have accomplished.
- Hosted dozens of live concerts featuring local, national and international bands.
- Made our own hot sauce!
- Put pinball machines in the Museum of Art.
- Host parties usually every week.
- Volunteered with various charitable organizations including: Second Harvest Food Bank, The Humane Society of Louisiana, Children’s Hospital, the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra, and many others.
- Sponsored a documentary film festival
- Hosted poker tournaments
- Raised and fostered puppies and kittens
- Installed an industrial roof on our building ourselves
- Hosted classes on CPR and become certified
- Taken trips together to various destinations
- Rented pinball and arcade machines for movie productions and participated on-set.
- Made and smoked cheese and sausage
- Created podcasts.
- Partnered with Wizard World convention
- Hosted movie nights, completely with HD big screen, surround sound and concessions
- Brought competitive pinball to our state and hosted the state championships, winning them several years in a row
- Streamed live events.
- Created the state’s first makerspace!
- Collaborated with area sci-fi cons.
- Participated in many Mardi Gras parades.
- Made our own beef jerky.
- Hosted a class on beekeeping.
- Made our own honey.
- Had “gaming nights” with all kinds of new board, card and other types of games.
- Attended broadway plays like, “Book of Mormon” and arranged special backstage tours.
- Held an annual, fancy, catered Christmas party that features an emcee and a white elephant gift exchange.
- Attended a behind-the-scenes tour of Laser Tag
- Programmed microcontrollers like Arduinos and Raspberry Pi
- Do multi-camera shoots of live events with up to 10+ cameras.
- Edit and produce our own videos, commercials and documentaries.
- Design and install our own custom lighting systems and DMX controls.
- Teach classes on sewing.
- Make our own custom jackets!
- Collaborate with conventions coming to town (like Wizard World) to participate, promote and give away
free passes. - Host private parties for everybody from tech companies to sports franchises.
- Negotiate reciprocal deals with other venues like museums, arcades, laser tag, escape rooms, etc., to offer our members special access for free.
- Set up a custom Virtual Reality system available for everybody to play with hundreds of games.
- Brew our own beer and other things.
- Partner with area restaurants for special deals.
- Operate a public arcade.
- Host a multi-family, large scale yard sale.
- Fabricate parts for artists and businesses.
- Host communal thanksgiving dinner.
- Collaborate with out of state arcade expos, helping organize events.
- Sponsor local maker fairs and provide speakers.
- Repair and refurbish all kinds of vintage technology, from electronics to furniture
- Hold classes on electronics
- Build our own arcade machines
- Bought brand new pinball machines and had unboxing parties
- Raised money to help fellow members in need
- Had a variety of celebrities and civic leaders come visit and hang out at our place
- Taught a class on Linux
- Sponsored school kids who received grants from Disney
- Published hundreds of “how-to” videos.
- Did a class on electro-mechanical pinball repair
- Hosted a class on firearms training and CCW permits
- Photography services for companies and music festivals.
- Produced music videos for many bands.
- Created custom wood-etched artwork.
- Had a class on magic tricks and mentalism.
- Hosted a comedy night.
- Sponsored a documentary at the New Orleans Film Festival
- Sponsored charity events for the Playing For Change foundation.
- Ran fundraising efforts for various social causes.
- Created custom signage and light fixtures for a medical facility.
- Organize motorcycle rides.
- Write articles for area news media and other publications.
- Made our own custom trophies out of everything from reclaimed wood to stone and plexiglass.
- Origami projects
- Hosted weekly pinball league competition
- Throw regular “pot luck” events where members bring home-cooked goodies!
- Made custom Mardi Gras doubloons.
- Participated in NPR radio shows.
- Have regular “show and tell” events where members bring in the latest technology to share with others.
- Install and repair fixtures at area museums.
- Set up our own industrial laser cutter.
- Created a “digital candle.”
- Make our own custom t-shirts that seem to pop up on the chests of luminaries in the industry as well as rock stars.
- Get our own professional airbrush equipment.
- Build a workshop with everything from woodworking to machine shop equipment.
- Establish conditions of a future trust to ensure our collective continues long into the future.
- Purchase an old church building and completely refurbish it, doing everything from the electrical to the framing, drywall, tile and finish work.
- Recycle all sorts of donated equipment.
- Create our own fundraisers to improve our clubhouse and add more features.
- Did a class on how to build your own multi-arcade machine.
- Designed and built our own custom light boxes to display translights and other artwork.
- Let Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Cowboy Mouth and the Subdudes use our space to rehearse.
- Rented pinball machines to Jason Sudekis when he was in town filming and had him come visit and hang out.
- Got Ed Robertson to sing the theme song from the Big Bang Theory at our party.
- Gotten written up in Wired Magazine.
- Created our own custom light fixtures and special sequences using neopixels and hacked Idea hardware.
- Set up our own 3D printers and 3D scanner systems.
- Built custom-made CnC machine
- Built our own custom recording studio.
- Got corporate sponsorship from companies like PreSonus who donated top-quality equipment for our studio.
- Provided equipment to the group Arcade Fire for special projects.
- Helped create custom sequenced lighted suits for Chewbacchus.
