Love this photograph last night of Paul McGann and me at @slapstickfest.bsky.social - we’re ready for our Joe Orton play

Tuesday, 10th Feb, is our next #HitchinHackspace Social Night, at The Vic just down the road from the Hackspace, from 19:30/20:00. Look out for our sign, say hello and find out about your local #Hackspace over a refreshing beverage or two #Hitchin #Letchworth #Stevenage #Baldock

Monday the 9th February is our next open evening 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

Just two weeks until 19th February's #Hitchin #MostlyComedy with @halcruttenden.bsky.social, Nabil Abdulrashid, Julia Eckhoff & @davidephgrave.bsky.social. Only a handful of tickets left. Book now. www.mostlycomedy.co.uk #livecomedy #hertfordshire #hertslife

Yesterday I was messing around with an ODrive again. Now I need to write some code to do basic mixing to set the requested motor speeds off the throttle, steering, and brake inputs. We're using a Pi Pico for this to make it easily changeable. May have different profiles set over BLE with a basic app

Progress on our Hacky Racer is slow but yesterday things got done. We've got a MakerBase ODrive v3.6-56V to run our dual motor setup. This is going to need some mixing of the two based off throttle and steering and also the brake switches to cut drive when braking. So we've connected a Pi Pico.

Yesterday, after Repair Café, two members did a bit of a rearrange in the metalshop. One workbench got modified so our new and improved welding table could be stored underneath. The old Welding bench is being repurposed for glasswork with the kiln and oxygen concentrator on it.

At the weekend we ran a Repair Café at East Essex Hackspace. People brought along broken household items, electronics, bikes, and battery-powered kit. Together we diagnosed faults, repaired what we could, and explained what was going on so people could learn in the process.

Repair Cafe at the Hackspace this morning!

Yesterday, Tim was looking at turning a luggage cart into a powered one with the idea of eventually having several in a 'wagon train'. Motive power will be hoverboard hub motors but fitted with pneumatic tyres. Good progress was made, next it will involve chopping the rear frame and some welding.

Over 100 tickets already sold for 12th March's #Hitchin #MostlyComedy via presale today. Sign up for our mailing list now for the secret booking code. www.mostlycomedy.co.uk #livecomedy #Hertfordshire

Monday the 2nd February is our next open evening 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

Repair Café Galway are looking for volunteer Mender Repairers and Event Meet and Greeters. The Cafe is volunteer led, and which helps people repair household items, through skill sharing. If you would like to find out more about the roles, just go to https://bit.ly/gvcrepaircafe #galway #repair

Remembering Dr. Gladys West (1930-2026), the mathematician whose complex algorithms modeling Earth's shape and satellite data became the foundation for GPS. A true "hidden figure" whose brilliance transformed how billions navigate the world. #GladysWest #GPS #WomenInSTEM #HiddenFigures #STEM #Tech

Presale for 12th March's #Hitchin #MostlyComedy with Andy Hamilton, @rachelparris.bsky.social & @davidephgrave.bsky.social kicks off to our mailing list from 10am on Saturday. General sale from Monday, 2nd Feb at 10am. Don’t miss out. Sign up to the mailing list at www.mostlycomedy.co.uk

🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events February in European Robot Combat! 5rd QRFL ant workshop in London 🇬🇧 8th Rock & Robots sportsman ants in London 🇬🇧 14th Valmieras ants in Valmiera 🇱🇻 15th Czech ants in Pilsen 🇨🇿 21st Robodojo ants & beetles in York 🇬🇧 21st Combat Robotics NI 450g in Belfast 🇬🇧

#NZ audiences are fantastic :)

Our Hackspace is so full of stuff I just don't have time to play with it all. We're trying to expand our offering to 'crafters' over time alongside the usual wood/metalworking/electronics tooling and open to suggestions that we can accommodate with the limited space we have.

We're expanding our offering to 'crafters' over time alongside the usual wood/metalworking/electronics tooling and open to suggestions that we can accommodate with the limited space we have. Sewing/fabric provision has come along well and as well as the glasswork people have been trying silver clay.

We've been equipping the Hackspace for jewellery and glassworking recently. We now have things like an oxygen concentrator and small kiln available. Members have been getting to grips with these and developing the practical skills to use them.

One month to go until BBB Beetle Brawl 2026! Spectators: tickets available now at bbb.gd/tickets Competitors: 15th Feb deadline for Proof of Mobility at bbb.gd/pom 📷 Stuart Camp

We're very excited to stock the brand new Catalyst ESCs from Cronos Labs! Think Malenki for brushless beetles, this is a dual brushless AM32 ESC with a Flysky FS2A receiver built in, in a tiny package weighing less than 4g! Check it out: bbb.gd/catalyst

NEWS: March sees two #Hitchin #MostlyComedy dates: 12th March with ANDY HAMILTON & @rachelparris.bsky.social, and 26th March, with KATE ROBBINS & @shappikhorsandi.bsky.social. Tickets go on presale/general sale on 31st Jan/2nd Feb, and on 7th/9th Feb, respectively. Oh yes. www.mostlycomedy.co.uk

Monday the 26th January is our next open evening 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

Our Hackspace recently got an embroidery machine and members are sorting out a workflow to make it easier to do bespoke designs with. Really looking forward to using this for LARP costume.

The process of creating a design from scratch for our new embroidery machine is quite fiddly and the supplied software limited. Members have been coming up with a workflow for inkstitch.org that means we can use open source software to produce designs for it. We're almost there...

Repair Café Isle of Wight @repaircafeiow Our upcoming Repair Café event is scheduled for Saturday, February 7th, at Ventnor Exchange in Ventnor. If you find your coffee machine isn’t brewing, a lamp isn't illuminating, your jacket's zip is stuck, or your speaker has gone silent, join us in the […]

We have heard your cries! Which is why we are going to host an open day. Bristol Hackspace Open Day at Bristol Hackspace event tickets from TicketSource share.google/D7dnYG8uhnxW... #BristolHackspace #HackspaceOpenDay #MakersOfBristol #DIYCommunity #CreativeBristol

Our Hackspace relies on volunteer work to keep going and sometimes people just randomly decide to make the place better, unprompted.

Last night members tidied and rearranged the 3D print lab to make it much less messy and more ordered. We often get asked how it works for the 3D printers. We used to charge by the hour for filament but thanks to many generous donations, you just print and make a donation if you want.

Tidying is contagious, today another member had a go at our metal shop bench and the area around the mill. Also our 3-jaw lathe chuck had picked up some runout so they stripped and cleaned it, reducing the runout.

Tuesday means it's Social Night at the Hackspace from 19:30. Tonight I suspect there will be more work on the BC250 'Steam Machine' and some looking at our new SawStop table saw to see what's needed to get it commissioned.

What a start to 2026! 90+ items brought in, stories swapped, and skills shared at our Repair Café. Thanks to our brilliant fixers (especially those from Tog Hackerspace) and everyone who joined the fun! #DublinMaker #IrishMaker #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #CircularEconomy

The Westcott Space Hub is officially open! 🚀 The new Buckinghamshire facility offers cutting-edge testing and workspace for UK space businesses and is backed by £5.8m from the UK Space Agency. 🛰️ Read more 👉 www.gov.uk/government/n...

There's been a bit of buzz recently about using cheap AMD BC250 boards from AliExpress to build a DIY "Steam Machine" for gaming. It's not going to be a patch on the real thing but Trustee Steve picked one up for a fun project. First job was to get the BIOS flashed and this was pretty easy!

This was meant for toddlers, not race tracks 🚗⚡ At the hackspace, a kid’s electric car became a racing EV, just because someone said “why not?” That’s what happens when slightly mad ideas meet the right people and a space that encourages experimenting Come and join our social night on Tues at 7:30pm

Monday the 19th January is our next open evening 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

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT. Join us for the first #Hitchin #MostlyComedy of 2026. Tickets are disappearing fast. www.ticketsource.co.uk/mostly-comed...

Tuesday night is Social Night from 19:30. Recently we've added a few more crafting things: a dedicated printer for dye sublimation inks to use with our heat press and a Cricut to complement our large roll fed drag cutter.

Want to find out more about #HitchinHackspace but unable to make our regular open Monday open evenings? Or fancy chatting with Hackspace folks over a drink the why not come along to our monthly social night tonight?

*tap, tap* is this thing on? Hello! We're HackWimbledon - a meetup for makers around south west London and beyond. Our next meetings are in February, and you can learn more about the group on our website hackwimbledon.org

Michael Horne's Raspberry Pi-Powered Portable Cyberdeck Boasts a Classic Psion Series 5 Keyboard - Hackster.io share.google/L59mcKNVKB5C... See it at CamJam!

Great news! TOG Hackerspace has been awarded funding from As Darragh Did to support new inclusive, community-focused workshops & creative activities. Huge thanks to As Darragh Did. www.tog.ie/2026/01/than... #community #makerspace #inclusion #creativity

I wanted the most accurate clock possible in my mini rack. Nobody made one, so I made my own, using a Raspberry Pi Pico and a Waveshare Pico GPS HAT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5qA...

Don't forget Tuesday is #Hitchin #Hackspace Social night

Monday the 12th January is our next open evening 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

Tickets went on sale this week for a special show in BODMIN - come and join Joanna and me www.ticketsource.co.uk/intobodmin/j...

Clearance sale 🚨 We've just discounted over 300 lines to clear, ready to fill those warehouse spaces with lovely new stuff for 2026. Grab a bargain, and once they're gone, they're gone 👋 thepihut.com/collections/...

Competitor Lottery Sign Ups tonight 7-8pm, all the info you need is at bbb.gd/brawl! :)

National Book Tokens have just published their 40 must read books of 2026, and look who's there @drlucyrogers.com