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[…]
On June 5th we celebrated our 1st year anniversary. Rather than attend a usual meet we decided to relocate the Hackspace to the more informal surroundings of the Sir Daniel Arms for a bite to eat and some drinks: We met at the Museum of Computing between 6:30 and 7pm, left a map to the Read more about First Year Anniversary Meet Up[…]
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[…]
Here’s some basic resources to get started pushing code to github. Note: As well as computer source code, git is useful for tracking changes to anything that can be represented as plain text, e.g. German Law. The simplest use of git is to create the repo locally, stored in the same folder as the source Read more about Resources for Using Git[…]