Aaron Jackson

This month we warmly welcome South Wales Neon for a guest post, who recently made an incredible neon sign for the space. We are incredibly excited about this and encourage everyone to support the craft – it looks so much better than LED tape. Thank you South Wales Neon!

When Nottingham Hackspace got in touch about bringing neon into their workshop, we knew it was the perfect match. Hackspaces are all about community, creativity, and making things with your own hands and neon belongs right…

Not so long ago, walking through the hackspace at night was a dark and scary experience. Today, you’ll be guided by the hackspace equivalent of moonlight. You probably don’t know what I’m talking about… I am of course referring to the warm amber glow of an LED matrix display. Such displays have made many happy hackers all over the world. Early LED matrix displays were simple, typically built upon a string of shift registers – simple logic chips which take serial data and convert it to parallel…