Much of what we do at the makerspace starts with a project from an individual member.
Category: Projects

“Photographic Darkroom” Project – Monday 16th Sept 2019
Have you ever thought of setting up a darkroom? Are you interested in the process involved in wet processing film? Would you potentially find a darkroom and studio in Basingstoke useful? If you are interested then come along and see what we are doing at the Makerspace this coming Monday evening.

Customised Cookies
We have created two new videos about customised cookie cutters. These are available on YouTube (here and here). In the first one Alex and Steve H briefly discuss making and using a customised cookie cutter. The second video is almost 15 minutes long and goes into much more […]

Video Workshop – 22nd August 2019
Recently we held a workshop to plan an initial set of videos documenting projects, tools and the activities of the MakerSpace. In order to publicise the Basingstoke MakerSpace the committee felt that it would be a good idea to create a series of videos. Our first efforts needs […]

Customising In-ear Headphones
Steve Hawtin demonstrated customising a pair of in-ear headphones at the Tuesday open evening on 20th August 2019. The material he employed was some “silicone moulding paste”. This is available under the name “Gedeo Siligum” from Amazon, Hobbycraft and other retailers. The resulting material is rubbery but resilient, […]

August Pi Night – Pi-hole – 7pm 15 Aug
The third Thursday of each month is Pi night. Normally we get together at 7pm, discuss the latest Pi news and answer any specific questions that members have about using Raspberry Pi or Arduino. For August we had a specific project, implementing a Pi-hole on an old Pi […]