Tuesday evening was another busy evening at the makerspace with a lot going on and a couple of people visiting the space. It’s even possible that a theme emerged for the evening, which seems to have been the letter ‘P’. Plans were hatched (including some for the Always The Sun festival in September), Phones were […]
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General
Cool Storage Solutions
It was another busy (but fortunately not so oppressively hot) night at the Makerspace this Friday. There were new visitors to the space, laser cutting of parts for a camera mount, some rather mis-aligned bearings, some ongoing sewing, and some new storage since last week! Matt managed to get us some small wall mounted storage […]
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Droning, Drilling and Chilling
Our open evening on Friday was another bustling one if a little on the warm side. Sadly even with all its motors replaced this little drone didn’t seem to make enough of a breeze to help. The evening also included some tidying of the Makerspace’s inventory, a new visitor to the space, and an attempt […]
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SHM 3D Printer Filament Store and Dispenser
This is a direct copy of a SHM forum post, which can be found here . If you’re interested in what we do or would like to share a project of your own with us, please take a look at the forum here SHM Filament Store and Dispenser Having finally got our 3D printer into […]
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Space 3D printer commisioning / repair
We were kindly donated a 3D printer which was 50%~ built by a hobbyist who had decided he had too many hobbies already and couldn’t take on 3D printing. Take a look at the restoration/commissioning our member Matt has completed. We now have a fully operational, well tuned 3D printer in the space! Extruder […]
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The space in pictures – Feb 2017
It’s been a while since we had an update on the space. Thanks to the hard work of several members we’re now pretty well set up and open to making… A picture speaks a thousand words so please join me in a quick tour of the space in pictures: Our main work benches and shelving. […]
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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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Plans for Friday session 18/11
I don’t think there are any grand plans today, but we will be open for all comers. I’ll be checking the new laser setup and hopefully doing some test jobs, and no doubt playing with some OpenTRV stuff along the way. Keep an eye on the comments to see what others are up to! I’ll […]
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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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Plans for Friday session 07/10
We’re still in the process of refurbishing our new space, so for now we’re sticking to just Friday for our open nights. However, due to the somewhat chaotic state of the space at the moment (still some construction going on), we’re limiting it to members only for now.… I’ll be there to open up at […]
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