Shop in Festival Place

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 […]

Green Week – Repair Cafe – 10am-4pm 1 Oct 2022

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 […]

Calculating Chimp

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 […]

Foamboard Biplane

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 […]

Soldering Class – 8pm 20 Sept

Following the success of our previous soldering classes we ran another one.  This class introduced some easy soldering using a simple “sound to light” circuit. It was at 8pm on the 20th September 2022 at the MakerSpace and was open to all. There are 10 FREE kits available, […]