Author Archives: Martyn

What price on priceless?

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Martyn

Given our shiny laser cutter, we’ve all been finding things to make with it, from desk ornaments to lens cases. Whilst I was wandering around the uk board games expo I spotted a stall selling laser-cut assortments, including lamps such … Continue reading →

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All the new toys! Lasers, Lathes and L3DPrinters?

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Martyn

This month has been very successful at furnishing the space with some fun new toys^H^Hols. Arriving at the space imminently* we have the following :- A shiny new metalworking Lathe – not exactly new, in fact may be older than … Continue reading →

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3d Printing: Printer part designed and printed!

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Martyn

This weekend at the hackspace I realised that my personal 3D printer needed a part that we made for the space printer using the laser cutter. Unfortunately the laser cutter is no longer with us and it was a little … Continue reading →

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DIY circuit boards, and what to do when it all goes wrong

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Martyn

So there are lots of ways to do electronic projects, and most have been used at the hackspace – Breadboards, Stripboard, Variboard; but I wanted to try my hand at PCB making, opening up opportunities to work with surface mount … Continue reading →

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3d Printshow London

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Martyn

This weekend was the 3d printshow in London and I (Martyn) went down to see who was there, on the midnight coach on Friday, arriving in at 06:20! Well there were quite a few interesting people at the show, but … Continue reading →

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EMFCamp was AWESOME

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Martyn

There I was, in a field with around 500 other geeks, makers, and hackers, with power and cat5 to any tent that wanted it, wifi to the entire field, a 380Mbps link to the major Milton Keynes datacenter, 1 hop from … Continue reading →

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