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BV Open Studios 2013
Our building hosts, BV Studios will be having their annual Open Studios event on the evening of Friday 14th June and during the day on the following Saturday and Sunday. We will be open throughout to...
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UK Makerfaire 2015!
A few hackspace members braved the long journey to Newcastle to attend the UK’s biggest makerfaire. We all had a lot of fun, saw some great stuff and met lovely people! Here’s what we took… David...
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Shonkbot!
After Makerfaire 2015 we were really impressed with how much time and effort had gone into lots of projects. Really polished and professional looking demos. This is great, but it can also be off...
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Glass etching workshop pics
Here’s some photos of the glass etching workshop that we ran recently. Thanks to all who came and made it a success! Some quotes: Using and learning new ways to do an old craft. Felt like a true...
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John Honniball; Electronics Whisperer
Richard brought in a couple of dead oscilloscopes in case they could be fixed. The slightly newer one (last PAT tested in ’96) couldn’t be focused. John quickly realised that one of the resistors was...
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9 year old says first Shonkbot workshop ‘Epic’
Thanks to an amazing team effort from Richard S, Libby, Barney and Zak (am I missing anyone else?), the Shonkbot (our attempt at a cheap and easy to make robot) has developed into a great workshop. The...
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The Converging World build a solar phone charger at the hackspace
Over the last few days there’s been loads of activity at the hackspace, today we’ve had mosfet power controllers, Bristol Braille, bike automatons, CNC spoon milling, PCB design & fab, cardboard...
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The Hackspace Hat
Libby and Barney have a plan to create a telepresence hat which will allow remote visitors to have a first-person tour of the space, by the magic of webRTC and modern autonomic millinery. Watch this...
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40 shonkbots made at Bristol Mini Maker Faire!
Thanks to Rapid Electronics, who very kindly sponsored us 70% of the parts we needed for 40 robot kits, we were able to offer the shonkbot workshop for only £5 per person at the Bristol Mini Maker...
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Hardinge Lathe Arrival
The Hardinge lathe has arrived and is sitting in it’s holding space next to the Biohack corner. Unloading it from the lorry was made simple by Weldtech from next door supplying and driving a forklift...
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