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+We are one of the larger hackspaces (240+ members) and we have a wide range of skills people that we can call upon to help with our build.
+We are committed to the teaching and spreading our knowledge. We have recently started Young Hackspace. One of the activities had them drawing pictures for the hackspace zoo, which we then scanned and laser cut for them to take home.  As well as the young hackspace we have connections to colleges for testing and feed back purposes.
+As a space we tended to have practical space improving group projects. Things such as a notification board controlled via IRC, a power monitor (some of it documented here http://blog.london.hackspace.org.uk/). So we have experience making projects that just work and don't need too much maintenance.
+Current on-going projects include an Arduino powered vending machine, for the selling of arduinos. We're also trying to figure out how our laser cutter is controlled so we can write new software.
+Lots of our members are also making the trip up to New Castle for the Maker Faire to help run the hack space there. This means we haven't decided on a project yet, possibilities include an open source spectrograph and an open source mind storms brain.
+So we will be making the pcbs (using Eagle!), software and enclosures of something wonderful and useful, in-house.
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