We’ve had a massive tidy up!

For a little while now, our 3d printing room (The one in the middle) has been a total mess. Every usable surface was covered in odd bits and bobs, rubbish, and cool hackable components that were impossible to get to:

With little free table space, this room had become quite difficult to use or to find anything (and remained so for 2+ years).

But, with a full day’s worth of effort, we have managed to tidy most of the room and bring all the desk space back!

Only most of the room though.

We have big plans for the other side though once we’ve finished sorting the CNC Milling Machines, so hopefully it will be cleared as well soon!

Regardless, we’re very happy to have all this table space back for members to use, especially since we managed it with room to walk all the way around both tables!

At the same time as this, we installed an isolator switch on our power switchboard. Previously you could only turn off the power to the hackspace via the business downstairs, so this is a huge step to allowing us to work on our electrics whenever we need!

Thank you to everyone who helped out!

We’ve updated our website again!

The last time we updated the site was just over a year ago in 2024, where we recreated the whole site from scratch using hugo to generate the whole website from some easy to write markdown files. This didn’t change the look of the site too much as we were just aiming to make the site easier to use.

This time, we’ve overhauled the whole site based on feedback from our members to make the page layout make much more sense, to make it easier for potential new members to find relevant information, and to have much more up-to-date photos.

You can find the website’s git repo here: https://github.com/leicesterhackspace/leicester-hackspace-web, where you’re welcome to bring up issues or propose contributions.
You can also find the full history of the website for your viewing convenience.

We (The Web Team) look forward to bringing more improvements to all our websites!
- Jacob

We have finished the year off with a trebuchet event, Christmas Crafts and the last PI Jam of the year.

Unfortunately due to ill health we only had two entries for the trebuchet contest.

The Christmas Craft event was well attended with the Laser Cutter out to good use.

Some visitors are already asking about next years event.

The last PI Jam was held on a Monday evening with the bew AI Camera on display.

We now have quite a collection of PI5’s and PICO’s for members to use.

Look out for more events in 2025.

I cannot believe it has been a year since our last post!

We went to create-a-con at the LCB depot in March, attended by several of our members and we had lots of visitors.

Throughout the year we have held Raspberry PI Jams which have been well attended, demonstrating the new PI5, the AI Hat and the Pico 2.

Our next one is November when hopefully we will have the new AI camera to demonstrate.

Halloween is nearly on us and we held a crafting session on Saturday October 26th.

The Laser Cutter and 3D printers were in use, along with other crafts.

Coming up in November is our Trebuchet event on November 16th and Christmas Crafts on the 30th.

We held a Sunday crafting event just before Christmas. The Laser Cutter was put to use making some baubles and lanterns out of plywood. Cardboard was not quite as successful, we need to work on the settings. The laser cutter still needs some fine-tuning for large cuts, but for small pieces it is fantastic. Keep your eye on Slack (for members) or Facebook for details on training courses.