My first time to the Hackspace this year and what a great evening. Some new faces to me who looked at me as if I was new. Always makes for a fun introduction. I arrived about 7:30pm and there was already a hive of activity. A new style of 3D printer was happily printing away. […]
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Hacksession 18th of September
Thursday 18th was a regular Hacksession for the Surrey & Hampshire Hackspace based in Farnborough. Once again it was mixed evening of hacking and chatting. Everything from testing new 3D printer controller boards and finding the optimum temperature for a new filament. A quick test of Mindflex game which included a mind controller. Retro joysticks […]
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Photos from a recent Thursday Hack Session
Here are some pictures from a recent Thursday Hack Session.Everything from making Fleece/Yard to 3D Printers, testing stepper motors and some serious grinding of parts to make them just right. The Surrey & Hampshire Hackspace meet each Thursday evening from about 7:00pm to work on projects and to chat about whatever interests us on the […]
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Hack Session – 30th January – what a great evening
Another great evening at our regular Thursday session. There was 3D printing, Ukulele tuning, cable measurer being made and an aluminium part for a torch being milled. There was also some great conversations about Python being used to control stepper motors on the Raspberry Pi and also Python for Geology and using a CNC machines […]
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Thursday night Hacksession – 3rd October 2013
A smaller group this evening but still a lot of working being done. A damaged fridge (gas was removed previously) was dismantled as they are suppose to have a very strong vacuum pump. Some fun with a small Passive Infra-Red Sensor getting it to work with the Raspberry Pi as part of a project […]
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Hack session 12th September 2013
What a great evening of hacking and chat. Started with a bit of a discussion about the Brighton Mini Maker Faire and how great it was, favourite displays and that there was a lot of interest in the hackspace. Also, looked at how to do better at the next event we attend. A couple of […]
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Brighton Mini Maker Faire 2013-09-07
What a great day. 5 from the Hackspace headed down to Brighton early to take part in the Brighton Mini Maker Faire. We brought along a range of projects to show including Peltier cooling/heating, 3D cube, naughty clown and blinking cat. We also had a number of kits for sale on the day based on the […]
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Hack session 5th September 2013
Another great and productive evening of hacking on projects and has been happening recently a number of new people turned up and got stuck in with their projects. There was also another donation of parts. All gratefully accepted. Some of the projects being worked on last night. Finalising the kits and instructions for the Brighton […]
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Raspberry PI Punnet – modified to include GPIO and Camera openings
Over a year ago someone came up with the great idea of a case for the Raspberry Pi made from cardboard. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1310 Since this was announced the camera board has been released for the Raspberry Pi and a lot of people are getting great pleasure from using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi to connect […]
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