News/2011-06-01

< 19th – 25th May 2011

London Hackspace news 26th May – 1st June 2011

General space news

• Martin started a discussion about maintaining the space. [1]

• Discussion about members boxes took place, members should avoid keeping boxes if they have nothing in them and these may be repossessed in the future. [2] [3]

• Mark posted a request for comment regarding Babbage upgrading. [4]

Equipment

• The 3-in-1 lathe is currently out of action due to the lathe motor becoming defective. [5]

• A Britannia Lathe was rescued from the Crystal Palace site as is currently being reconditioned. [6]

• There is an active pledge for a knitting machine, Mike and Charles have been bidding on them and increasing the pledge amount would help. [7]

Upcoming events

• The One Click Orgs hack day this Saturday 4th has been moved to The Trampery. [8]

• This Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th is the Nanode weekend.

• Next Wednesday 8th is the weekly catchup of the biohacking group from 19:30 - 20:30.

• Peter would like to know if anyone is interested in an open rail data hacking session. [9]

Projects

• The final Nanode pledge has been reached, and the assembly weekend is this Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th. [10] [11] [12] [13]

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.

External news

• There is an open invite to an exhibition titled "Object Oriented". [14]