Every Tuesday 7-9 pm – Makerspace Free Open Evening

Do you know what happens in a makerspace? Drop in to Basingstoke Makerspace 7:30 pm EVERY Tuesday evening to find out. The scene above is from the  “Cold Night” we held pre COVID In the past we have … Made a garden chair   Had a pottery relay […]

Solder4: Make a radio – 8pm 13 & 20 May

Our fourth annual solder session will be open to all and take place at 8pm 0n 13 & 20 May. Come along and make a working FM Radio. For all levels of experience, learn how to solder. The number of parts makes this our biggest kit ever, so […]

Building a Backup Appliance – 8pm 8 Apr 2025

Keeping an up-to-date, secure and off-site, copy of your data is important. But arranging to do that can be time consuming and hard to organise.  In this short talk Steve will explain how a Raspberry Pi has been used to build an easy to use “Backup Appliance” that […]

USB from A to C: 18 Mar 2025

At the Open Evening on Tues 18 Mar Kevin gave a talk about the USB standard. Universal Serial Bus, more commonly known as USB, was launched in 1996. Since then a bewildering range of connector shapes and sizes have been used, and the standard has gone through versions […]

4 Axis Mill – 8pm 25 Feb

Learn about our 4 axis vertical metal mill Understand the how to use a metal mill to create a wide verity of cut shapes and holes in Aluminium and Brass. This demonstration explained the parts of the mill and how they are used to move the workpiece around […]