News

CoronaVirus Update March 17th

17 March 2020

In line with the governments request to limit social interaction the Hackspace is stopping its Tuesday Evening open nights for new members. The website will be updated when the situation changes or if you use facebook check out our page for news.

2020 Computing Area

1 January 2020

Thanks to sterling work by several of our members, we now have a computing area comprising 6 dual booting PC’s running Windows 10 or Linux Mint. Two of the PC’s have dual monitors and all are connected to the internet.

All PC’s have design software, 3D printing slicers, software development packages.

They were recently successfully used by our second code club session.

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June 2019

1 June 2019

We started June with two days at the Riverside Festival with for the first time our own stand. Saturday was nice and sunny, Sunday on the damp side.

Sunny Riverside
Sunny Riverside
Wet Riverside
Wet Riverside

PI-Wars 2019

28 May 2019

One of our younger members James competed in PI-Wars 2019 at Cambridge at the weekend. He was placed 10 out of 15 in his class which is a fantastic result as he never competed in any of the autonomous challenges. He managed to get through to the quarter-finals of PI-Noon where you have to burst balloons on your competitors robot.

Canyon of Mars
Canyon of Mars
PI-Noon
PI-Noon
Space Invaders
Space Invaders

2019 May

11 May 2019

One of our busiest months with two exhibitions in Birmingham

3D Printer Meetup Birmingham

Last year Keith attended the first 3D Printer meetup in Birmingham. This year he went back with Hackspace members Bill and Jan with our own stand.

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I think something went wrong with the timing of the last Sierpinski Pyramid. A case of Last Man Standing?

On Saturday, May 11th Tony represented Leicester Hackspace on the National Hackspace Stand at Makers Central NEC.

His milk bottle recycling and spark generator were well received.

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