[Learning Series] – Making a widget case, from start to finish – part 1

Introduction Hello! This will be a first, experimental post in a little series of blog posts detailing a complete workflow – hopefully useful to someone who might be wanting to use the laser cutter or work on a small project. Recently, I’ve been playing with our space’s laser cutter with a couple of simple projects. […]
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February Update

It’s been a busy few months for SHM! We’ve more or less completed our renovation works at the Boileroom and our members have started coming along regularly, working on their many projects. Our fancy laser cutter is installed, working and has already been producing a variety of projects. The laser cutter is a very nice […]
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Space Update

We’ve made fantastic progress with building our space over the last couple of weeks. The benches are now in, shelving is going up, and everything is really taking place. There are only a few items left for us to do, but it hasn’t stopped some of our members making already – we’ve had various personal […]
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Hack Session 2013-08-29

Another great evening at the Hackspace with a variety of projects being worked on. The Shrimp kits were being put together for the Brighton Maker Faire and the logistics of getting 30 Atmega328 ICs programmed with the bootloader and then a sketch were finalised. All looking good for the 7th September. Projects being work on […]
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Hack Session 2013-08-22

Another great evening well attended with a couple of new people getting involved for the first time. Nearly every week new people are arriving who are interested in hacking and being part of the hackspace. This evening a number of projects were being worked on: A new jig/template was being created to make building LED […]
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