Tuesday Talk – 7:00pm 4 May 2021 – Crossrail Update

In Feb 2019 Kevin Roche gave a talk about the Crossrail signalling system.  Crossrail had blamed the signalling system for the delay in opening.  At that time they said it would be opening in late 2019.  Now, two years later, the opening is still about a year away.  […]

Virtual “Tuesday Open Evening”

Basingstoke Makerspace  open evenings  have restarted every Tuesday at 7pm in the Makerspace. Come along to the real or virtual meeting and discuss your projects and ideas. If you would rather not attend  the physical meeting, you can join the same meeting  from home using a virtual meeting […]

Five minute horse race for children and parents

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 […]

Past meeting – Leonardo da Vinci Bridge Applications

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 […]

What is happening in our darkroom?

First Use of Darkroom Now our darkroom is working , we are aiming to look at  identical pictures with both a digital camera and a film camera and then develop the film negative in the darkroom. The idea is to create a wet print of an image and […]