Over the last six months a number of digital craft training courses have been held in the new Training Hub. In the autumn of 2018 there was a series of sessions for six young people from the Game Changer Project, an organization that aims to...
Over the past few months I have been converting a shipping container so that it can be used as both a digital studio for the Maker Space, housing the laser cutter and 3D printer, and also as a show room for some of the things...
AKA the Skinners Bottom Academy of weired woodwork Photogrammetry project. Back in the end of last year Jeff came to a MakerSpace to learn the basics of CNC routing. He contacted me later and wanted to CNC carve a relief of his nephew. He had already made...
Over the summer I spent some time upgrading the CNC Router and finally finishing the large 3D Printer. The router is on it's third iteration. It now has two stepper motors on the X axis, which will allow greater rapid speeds and acceleration and also make...
[caption id="attachment_1053" align="alignleft" width="396"] Large capacity 3D printer[/caption] The large 3D printer is now up and running. It has a working envelope of 450 x 450 x 500mm. With no heated bed it can only print PLA at the moment. Hoping to print some prettyy big components...
Yes, finally the forge is up and running again. Just waiting for a new project to come to mind. ...
On the 26th of October Louis Turner from 3DK, Shawn Brown, and Sam Lanyon from the Concept Shed and I were the panel of a discussion group at the Falmouth Polytechnic on the Makerspace Movement. Below is the text of the talk I gave Intro My Name...
Most summer holidays my daughters and I attempt some kind of practical project together. Last summer it was a Bamboo bike. We enjoy cycling so it seemed like a really cool thing to make and ride....