News/2010-04-27

Space

Makerbot Mondays are now official, the first being yesterday. If you want to learn how to use the MakerBot, this is highly recommended, as it's fairly easy to knock the machine out of alignment.

The space will be opening again on Fridays, although the times are yet to be confirmed. Hopefully, it'll be at least the evening.

Solexious has been hacking the stairs. Listen out as you enter the space on a public evening.

Wet

The tubes for the dremelfuge arrived, which you can see in impressive action with HD. We're thinking a short length of PVC or ceramic pipe might be safer.

A few people have been discussing homebrewing alcohol, and Russ has agreed to lead a workshop on it.

Daniel's been honing his PCB etching and there is now a comprehensive description on the wiki.

Dry

Members can now tweet important announcements to @londonhackspace via DM.

irccat has been added to lovelace, to help link IRC to things happening in the space, and we're working out proper streaming for the webcam as it's turned out to be so popular. Lovelace now also plays music.

In other news, we found a 0 Ω resistor (see example, right). ^{[Pun needed]}

Activities

Tom Scott's got dates for the trip to Denge, now on the mailing list. Please email him if you'd like to join in.

Everything else should be on the mailing list, including from this week:

• a trip to the Science Museum tomorrow for talks, drinks and possible dancing
• the One Click Orgs hack evening on Thursday at the Trampery (and the space closing at 6pm that evening)
• the possible rescheduling of next month's meeting at the Trampery
• the OpenStreetMap hack weekend is at the space from 10am Saturday and Sunday