The big laser cutter is now working and available for members to use.  This short presentation introduced the machine and its capabilities and give an outline of how to use it. The presentation was open to members and non-members and took place on Tuesday 25 Oct 2022 at […]

For the six days from 25th Sept to 1st Oct (2022) we manned a shop in Festival Place.  This was mainly done in order to publicise the Repair Cafe that we ran as part of Green Week (on 1st Oct).  We were located in the old Gap shop […]

From time to time, we all throw away things that have very little wrong with them and could easily be used again after a simple repair. If you have something broken but could be repaired, then bring it along to 2022 Green Week Repair Café at the Basingstoke […]

We’ve made a large version of this simple number multiplying mechanism using the big laser cutter.  Here is a video explaining what we did (also at https://youtu.be/DxxZ01vqcKU) This was based on a really good pattern designed by Jürgen Weigert and downloadable from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2891426. The original was for an […]

Now that the big laser is back working we can make some of those bigger projects we’ve been putting off. One example is this Foamboard Biplane.  The original pattern was designed for an A4 sheet of 3mm laser ply, Steve H converted it to work on an A1 […]