News/2012-01-16

< 20th December 2011 – 2nd January 2012

London Hackspace news 3rd – 16th January 2012

General space news

• Gadget Geeks, starring two of our members, Charles and Tom, shows tonight at 8:00pm. We'll be discussing it in the quiet room this evening.
• This is the last news before UK Hack Camp decides on a venue

Equipment

New

• Tom Mudd donated some panels of the sort used in the giant Piccadilly Circus sign. They're amazingly bright, so we're getting rid of the jumbotrons to make space.
• There is a new (smaller) frame for sand casting with the forge as well as new half granite/half foundry sand work surface
• Tom Wyatt has made a washing up alarm for the sink in unit 24 (details)

Improved

• Solexious upgraded Coolbot
• Babbage is now on Ubuntu Lucid (LTS)
• Billy made the new endplate for the lathe

Damaged

• The laser cutter case was dented, but it's been straightened out. Please email the list if you damage anything.

Upcoming events

• Radio Hack Evening on Wednesday 18th
• The latest Reverse Engineering day is on Saturday 21st (we'll be including the signs this time)

Other events

A few people are maintaining a list of interesting events not at the hackspace, mostly in London. Feel free to add anything people might like to go to.

• CyberScience conference 16-18 February

Projects

• The Beast is off for a jaunt around London in February

Please add a project page for anything here that doesn't have one

Recently added projects:

• Tom made a washing up alarm

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:

Herx:

• video projector
• digital white board large
• free standing ~A2 laminator machine

Needs pick-up from South London

Danny:

• Mountain bike (already in the space)