News/2011-06-29

< 16th – 22nd June 2011

London Hackspace news 23rd – 29th June 2011

General space news

• Martin spearheaded the first Tuesday cleaning ritual this week, which was to do a tidy up of the workshop. This was hugely successful, well done to everyone who helped out.

• Jasper has created a hackspace adventure party on the ChoreWars website, turning tidying up tasks in to an RPG style adventure.

Equipment

• Thanks to Solexious the laser cutter is now back up following its maintenance. The usage fee has been increased to £5/hour to cover increased costs. [1]

• Some pledges remain outstanding on the knitting machine, this is being collected on Saturday 2nd July. [2]

• Adrian has found an auction of a large amount of workshop equipment from a school, happening at the end of July. [3]

Upcoming events

• Next Wednesday 6th is the weekly catch-up of the biohacking group from 19:30 to 20:30.

• There is a Sukey meeting in the quiet room this Thursday 7th from 18:00 to 19:00.

• One Click Orgs are having a hack day this Saturday 9th from 13:00 to 19:00 in the hackspace.

• There are two places available on the Redsands Sea Forts trip this Sunday 3rd. [4]

• Tom would like to know if there is any interest in running a stand at the Makerfair Brighton, entries need to be submitted by Thursday 30th. [5]

Projects

Recently added projects:

• Hackspace-reprap
• HydrogenPoweredEngine
• ETextiles

SwapShop

Please can members update their items in the SwapShop so that it can become more useful and also please date when you add something.

New items this week:

• 1960's portable record player (Robin BH)