Hitchin Hackspace

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@ChrisHillidge Got the address wrong 🤦‍♂️ corrected now. .... Will delete the incorrect post later....

@HackHitchin Can't find you on BlueSky?

Monday the 6th January is the first open evening of 2025 at #HitchinHackpace. Why not come along and see what the #hackspace is all about? From 19:30. Free tea or coffee and biccies 🫖☕🍪🙂 #make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock

❗There is a road closure following a road traffic collision on the A1 at junction 6 southbound by #WelwynGarden City this morning and drivers are asked to find an alternative route. The road is likely to be closed for some time. Thank you for your patience.

Jenny List tells us all about her hackerspace, what these spaces mean, and how they operate. hackaday.com/2024/05/03/my-…

The main target of today’s expedition was this, however - an excavated Roman bathhouse in a corrugated iron bunker under the A1(M) near Welwyn. And this is a place with which I have a special connection… (thread)

@AliGumble @gameboyscene @emfcamp Thank you ☺️

@HackHitchin @gameboyscene @emfcamp That's awesome <3

@broomoftrigger We were going to @emfcamp and had wanted to have a group project which members could get involved with to take to the event. We had a lot of the LED panels and wanted to make something using them. Sadly it wasn't ready in time to take it to EMF.

Construction work started on making the outer shell and buttons.

There were some rough calculations for the size of the screen. In order for people to be able to play the GameBoy Monumental there would need to be a controller. One was designed by slicing the top off a cad model and then installing buttons / controls and a control wire.

Interested in #creativeprogramming? Design patterns using @turtlestitch and stitch them onto fabric. Crafting with Code workshop for children aged 9-11 at @RI_Science on Wed 21st (AM + PM). rigb.org/whats-on/holid… #WMGoutreach @wmgwarwick #STEMeducation #STEM #CreativeArts

Categorizing Steel hackaday.com/2024/08/18/cat…

🌌 For Meganne Christian, her chemical engineering degree was the beginning of a journey that took her on research expeditions to Antarctica, in zero gravity and finally, to becoming a European Space Agency reserve astronaut. Read her story in #IngeniaMag ingenia.org.uk/articles/qa-me…

@leeinroyston @hertscc Looking at it as a positive at least they are thinking about it and talking about it. Which can't be a bad thing surely?

@HackHitchin @hertscc I won't hold my breath - when the 're-use shops' were set up it was said that half proceeds would go to local charities...