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…

Since the hackspace was founded in 2010, membership fees have always been set by the member – whatever you feel the hackspace is worth, is should be what you pay. The minimum was effectively £0.01, and in quite a few cases, that’s what members paid, whether they used the space a lot or not. During that time, we’ve grown from a handful of members to over 650 members. However, in 2021, we accidentally went over our VAT threshold and incurred significant costs. To prevent this from happening again…

Do you long for the days of robot wars? Well, we aren’t Jeremy Clarkson or Craig Charles, but we are a hackspace, and we are excited to announce that we will be running its first public combat robotics event, this October on Saturday the 28th. You can sign up, which is essential if you intend to compete, using our Google Form. Hackspace members may attend as spectators without signing up, but will need to sign up if you intend to compete. There…