News/2013-01-14 (draft)

< 14th February – 10th December 2012

London Hackspace news 1st January – 13th January 2013

General space news

• The newsletter was resurrected (again) this week!
• There has been talk about setting up an optional -discuss mailing list

• the uk spacefed node is now linked into the rest of the spacefed network, so both London Hackspace and Nottinghack are online. We don't have a way of adding accounts yet, that's next :)
• The Pledges/MakerSlide order has arrived. Thanks to Sci for running that. Please come and pickup your makerslide!
• People are starting to book for OHM_2013
• All registered members should have got an email about marking member boxes with member reference numbers. Please do this as soon as possible.

The New Space

• Things are moving ahead with the new space, and a date for a group visit will be announced on the mailing list soon
• A list of things we want/need to do to fit out the new space is up.
• Another list of the remedial work we need to do to our current space is also starting to fill out.

Equipment

• Please make sure to read Faceplant.
• The rage saw, despite the name, is quite delicate. Treat it with care.

New

• Hipster's new Vinyl Cutter is in the space. Please don't use it until you're trained, sign ups are here: Equipment/VinylCutter

• The Pledges/TShirt_Heat_Press pledge has closed, and should be ordered soonish.

• Sully has installed a new printer, an HP Laserjet 2200D - details on the Equipment/Printers page

Upcoming events

• TGreer is organising another Amateur Radio Beginners course
• The Not_Just_Arduino group are meeting tonight
• London_3D are meeting next Monday
• The Housing-co-op group are meeting on Wednesday. Check the page for details.

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.

Projects

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

Recently added projects:

• No new projects this week.

SwapShop

Please update your 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.