Julian Warren

Friday and the weekend also saw the creation of a new mezzanine area in the space, something that’s easy to say, but a lot more work to build.

The end of day 3, a mostly finished mezzanine area.

The area under the mezzanine is going to be our workshop area for woodworking and similar activities. As you can see there’s a significant amount of work still to do on the space.

I’m sure you’ll all agree that its an important addition to the space and great work by the construction team:…

Farnborough has played an important role in the history of both aviation and our makerspace. Last weekend it was also host to a unique musical event.

The Modular Café Aldershot (MODCAF) a local community of modular synth enthusiasts organised a one of a kind musical event called TEST CHAMBER LIVE in Q121, a historic wind tunnel building.

A view from behind the fan in the wind tunnel A set of huge concrete veins used to direct the air around a corner A propeller testing rig Warnin…

Our weekly members’ evenings continued with another varied range of projects, here’s some highlights from this week:

A nice four slice toaster in need of repair

Matt, one of our director’s brought in a toaster that wouldn’t heat up. The label on the toaster happily announced that it was made in the UK by Michael and designed to be repaired.

Having helped out at a number of local Repair Cafe events Matt’s no stranger to repairs, so after a bit of investigation I’m happy to say that…

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on at a typical members’ evening at the Surrey & Hampshire Makerspace then the answer is I don’t think there is a typical evening.

At our most recent weekly members’ evening one member was in the early stages of hand making a pair of shoes

A prototype for a hand made shoe in the process of being stitched together.

Meanwhile the Makerspace’s 3D printer carried on making drawers to fit in the front of our workbenches:

A finished drawer fresh from the…