There has been some excellent work carried out by several members, resulting in a test firing of the laser. Hopefully it won’t be too long before it is available to members to use, after a suitable induction of course.

Divya organised this year’s attendance at the Riverside festival. We always attract quite a bit of interest and at our first Openhack night on the Tuesday after the event had a dozen or so members of the public come to have a look at us. Three of which signed up as members.

The photograph below shows Bill’s rapidly increasing collection of robots for his CodeClub.

The processors are Raspberry PI’s, Micro-Bit’s and Crumble’s. Chassis’s are made out of cardboard or 3D printed, with a 3D printed holder for the castor wheel.

All connected using crocodile clips.

I wonder what the next one will be?

Thursday, April 5th saw the first of our Radio Control Jams, happening on the first and third Thursday of the month.

Star model of the evening was Dave’s Radio Controlled Buggy.

“I took a battered and unwanted 3 wheeled buggy and stripped it down of all unnecessary parts, designed and 3d printed adapters for the wheel hubs to take a standard toothed belt, added a second stage of gearing and used a couple of old quadcopter motors I had kicking around (with ESCs and receiver), the result is somewhat limited having very little torque at low speeds and has no reverse, but its great fun to drive!”

Why not come along to the next jam with your own project.

Saturday, March 10th saw the Hackspace attend Create-a-con again, this time held for the first time at the LCB depot.

All images are courtesy of Chris Slowe, Chris Leach and SideFest. More can be found on the facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/pg/creatacon/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1471096849684645.

Aaron and Divya brought the sand box which always attracts a large number of visitors.

Keith, Aaron and Matt demonstrated several of our 3D printers.

Tony and Bruce demonstrated their spark machines and BBC computer

Steve and Russ brought along their Raspberry PI robots and home automation demonstrations

Last but not least Marie and John were there from Leicester Fixers.

We always have a good attendance at Creat-A-Con from Hackspace members, easily filling a room to ourselves. Hopefully we will also attract some new members.