Open Hack Night November Week 1
Nov 12, 2014 | Comments
Another interesting week this at hackspace… We had a full house again…
Our hackspace guys also attended the ex-factory launch event. Also this month is the North Staffs Raspberry Jam, get involved!
If you’ve never been down to our hackspace, don’t be shy, come on down!
Open Night Update October Week 5
Oct 30, 2014 | Comments
Hi all,
The space has been pretty busy over the past couple of weeks with lots going on.
Our arduino powered door entry system is now fully operational. Each member is issued an RFID tag which they can put against the reader on the outside of the door to gain entry to the building.
The guys have been working on their electric powered motor vehicles, bikes and boards. Really interesting stuff!
Not only that but we’ve been working on the infrastructure getting more power to more places.
Open Night Update October Week 2
Oct 9, 2014 | Comments
Hi guys,
Our Open Hack Night on Tuesday was busy as always.
Unfortunately I left my camera behind, so I didn’t get any snaps.
Instead I asked the guys to give us a brief update of what they have been up to:
Ian said:
This week I did some wiring for kitchen area.
Next week I will be doing: More kitchen and door lock wiring; Build worktop extension; Help Mat wire his bathroom fan controller; Help Sam with his audio stuff; Talk to tom about what he wants to mount the wood turning lathe on. (wall
bench or freestanding).
Tom said:
Paul and myself carried on working on the RFID Door lock (with a little help from Dan), its coming along now!
Hoping to have it working next week.
Paul said:
Tom, Dan & me tackled the software for the RFID door entry. I also discussed with Ian & James about the positioning of the door units for the RFID, power supply and wiring route.. We discussed the layout of the kitchen. I also talked to Matt about his psu for his fan controller. For next week I hope to find some metal project boxes to house the RFID units and try to sort out how to store backup data in the EEPROM of the arduino… Need also to check the homebrew out for fermentation.
Myself, I too was pretty busy:
This Week: Brewing beer, Helped Ian wire up the kitchen area, painted the wall for the projector
Next Week: Bottling beer, helping setup the kitchen area with Ian, setting up AV in meeting room with John
Archie and Matt were discussing meeting for a drink or a curry on Friday night, everyone agreed it was a good idea and we said we’d follow it up on the mailing list.
Before everyone went, I also requested that everyone take a flyer and post it up where they could around the area on any notice boards. So if know of a place you can pop one of our flyers up, please do get in touch.
Update: I plan on visiting the “Journeys, Pathways and Track Plans” at Spoke Works tomorrow night.
Open Night Update September Week 5
Oct 3, 2014 | Comments
This week the Hackspace was a hive of activity. We had four new introductions and a whole host of regular members working on their projects or hackspace infrastructure.
Potteries Hackspace at Stoke Con Trent
Sep 30, 2014 | Comments
As many of you will know Potteries Hackspace were present at Stoke-on-Trent’s first Comic Conversion.
We were a bit of a last minute add on, so we couldn’t get a table in the main building, however we managed to get plenty of space and power in the Brindley building.
We had plenty of flyers to hand out and a few helping hands to get them out there.
Our table had plenty to show off too, including Ian’s Line Following Robots, Our 3D Printer, Raspberry Pi systems, Arduino badges, Google Cardboard and whatever else I could grab and fit into a box on the day…
Things started off slow, with only a few people visiting our table at first – some saying they struggled to find us, but we were not perturbed and went on a missions to hand out flyers and send people to the table.
Although I would have liked to have got a photo with Craig Charles I can’t complain as almost everyone we spoke to seemed genuinely interested and enthusiastic about what we were doing. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet new people.
We’re really happy with how the day went and looking forward to seeing who turns up in the upcoming weeks.
The crowds didn’t start to die down until it was due to shut so I guess that means it was a success. Roll on next year I say!