Many D & D  games use maps to help players visualise what is happening to the characters.  "Ghosts of Saltmarsh" extended the map idea to 3D gameboard of a ship. We decided to make  a 3D game board at the makerspace.  We starting from the  basic four level design in the Saltmarsh manual ...

This set of dice are “nontransative”.  In other words the red one beats the green, the blue one wins against the red and the green one defeats the blue. With this set of dice you can always have a 55% chance of winning.  First get your victim to […]

Full instructions are on inventables –>    https://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-Walking-Robot-Very-Simple/ To save you the effort of drawing the shape onto  card… Print the PDF template, scaled to fill a landscape A4 card . The single A4 piece of card includes templates for four individual horses ( You can colour them […]

On Tuesday, 25th Feb 2020, we had a fascinating talk by John Barrie-Smith about the various applications of Leonardo da Vinci’s design for a bridge. We watch him make a 6m long bridge without nails, bolts, or screws in ten minutes.   The talk also considered other applications of […]

At the end of January 2020 Basingstoke Makerspace organised an evening to teach soldering skills. The free basic soldering workshop was open for  both members and visitors. It was simple through-hole component soldering on a pre-made circuit board. We had ten free flashing light kits  but some attendees […]