The Hackspace recently took delivery of a PiFace Control and Display board from Farnell. It is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that includes a 16 character by 2 line display, five push buttons, a toggle button and an IR receiver. The intention is to use this on the Hackspace 3D printer to display Read more about PiFace Control and Display Board[…]
The Hackspace recently took delivery of a Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera Module from Farnell – full details are on their website. It is an add-on camera module for the Raspberry Pi which has no infrared filter, making it perfect for taking infrared photographs or photographing objects in low light (twilight) conditions. The camera plugs directly Read more about Octoprint and the Raspberry Pi Camera Module[…]
A couple of members are now putting the finishing touches to their quadcopter builds and proceeding into the upgrade phase (typical). The build process isn’t too difficult with the excellent DJI 450 quadcopter kit, which allows various options to be taken to reach each users end goal, whether it be simple flying or the more Read more about Quadcopter Design and Build[…]
Central heating is a great invention and radiators generally do a good job of pumping out heat into a room. Sometimes however due to the layout of the room or positioning of the radiator it doesn’t quite work as well as it could. I have a room like this and decided to go for a Read more about DIY Radiator Booster[…]
As mentioned in a previous post, the hackspace has been working on getting an old Heathkit Hero robot up and running. We are almost starting to build up a mini library of printable Heathkit Hero 1 parts. The latest edition is not so much a replacement but a component fix that should allow a broken Read more about Heathkit Hero Printable Parts[…]
Quite a busy night at the Swindon Hackspace tonight. Welcome to the five(!) new people who turned up to see what we get up to at our weekly meetings, hope you had an enjoyable evening and we’ll see you again next week. Along with the regulars it made for a pretty full room. After resetting Read more about Meeting Report – 3rd July 2013[…]
Gyrobot was made available to the Swindon Museum of Computing on Hackspace night; 19th June 2013 for their upcoming Robots Revealed exhibition. For those that are not familiar with Gyrobot, it was my (Steve Wood) entry into the UK Robot Wars series 6 and 7, back in 2002. Gyrobot originally started its journey in 2000 Read more about Gyrobot Resurrection[…]
The Museum of Computing in Swindon has a working Teletype and a desire to get it to print out tweets as part of a display in the museum. Since the Swindon Hackspace was based in the museum it was a perfect project for hackspace members. Current Loop Interface The teletype uses a current loop interface to communicate Read more about Twitter to Teletype[…]