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I’m happy to report that our lathe is now working. There’s a shortage of tooling at the moment, but hopefully this situation will improve over the next few weeks. Details on the lathe are being collected in our wiki.

From the 23rd to the 25th of November creative places around Mabgate and Sheepscar will be open to the public and we’re happy to announce we’ll be taking part. The hackspace will be open from 12pm to 6pm on Saturday … Continue reading →

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 →

We have a saying, “everything’s better with lasers!”, this definitely applies to a hackspace and now we’ve got access to a laser cutter we’re out to prove it. Inductions in use of the laser cutter are ongoing, laser cutter time … Continue reading →

Soon our battlestation laser cutter will be fully operational, and we’ll be one step further towards world domination. Yes, on Saturday 6th October we’ll be acquiring our first laser cutter, and it seems that members are already thinking up lots … Continue reading →

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 →

If you are a student in Leeds then we’d like to invite you to come one of our open nights on Tuesday evenings (for free!) and see what it’s all about. After some discussion we’ve decided to offer a student … Continue reading →

For a while now we’ve had two big cardboard boxes full of ICs, power regulators and power transistors.  On Friday I got bored, and catalogued them.  The results can be found on the wiki. There’s still an even bigger box … Continue reading →

Some Hackspaces have “do not hack” stickers.  We decided that this was probably a bad idea.  If a sticker is accidentally overlooked, or falls off then someone is probably going to get upset. Instead we have rolls of green electrical … Continue reading →