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 8:30pm. 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

• Herx has offered an A1 laminator and digital white board
• 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.

Improved

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

Damaged

• The laser cutter case 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:

• No new projects this week.

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:

• No new items this week.