Dee Midnight

Lasers, lathes and leadership
When I first joined Nottingham Hackspace in October 2024, I was mostly looking for a place where my partner and I could build things without tripping over each other in our shared house. I’d heard great things about the space, but I didn’t realise just how much it would come to mean to me. Yes, the tools were impressive—giant laser cutters, an impressively stocked wood workshshop, even a metal lathe—but it was the people who really got me hooked. A community of…