Simon Ford

Lots of great things and chat at the October Makespace Members Show and Tell – thanks to everyone who made the effort!

Below are a few photos of some of the things; Jewellery, Robots, Shoes, Woodwork, Board Games, Motion Tracking…

I had some requests to run this again, so next one is now live on meetup:

• Makespace Show and Tell – Thursday 11th November – Signup Now!

• Jewellery
• Printers and CNC
• RPi Projects
• Woodwork
• Robots and Light Sabre
• Shoes
• Motion Tracking
• Board Game
• Light Cubes

Harry H is working on the Studio to refine setups and recipes for making product or training videos/photos, live streaming, podcasts etc.

As part of that, last night all the bits for a seamless backdrop setup finally arrived! (via a mis-delivery to mill road!)

With a little help from his friends, the mounts were put in place to hold up to 3 backdrops at a time in the classroom – they can be individually rolled up and down using a chain, and swapped for different colours (we have…

Woodshop members Tom Herbstein, Stefan Ross, Alaric Worrod and Matt Jaworski took delivery of Makespace’s new wood lathe, disc and belt sanders!

The packaging was quickly ripped open and now all three are in place in the workshop. Have a look for yourself at the unboxing video to see what a couple of hours of lifting, grunting, swearing and bolting parts together can achieve.

The wood lathe is an Axminster Trade AT406WL and has variable speed control, a more…

Makespace and Biomakespace are back open! We’ve missed you. Hopefully you missed us too!

The spaces have now moved to “LIMITED ACCESS”, so that means any individual activities are fine, plus see the space tours on both sites, inductions and training: 

After a year of payment holidays, we’ll also be restarting membership fees to cover the space operating costs.

Full details are available on our Covid-19 page – please have a read before you come in.

We also did an update from the…

Makespace has been awarded a Mayor’s “Volunteer for Cambridge” award!

This recognises the amazing effort and dedication of over 100 Makespace members and supporters who pulled together this year to support the local community through a series of projects, including:

• The community visor project: Designing protective visors in collaboration with the medical and technical teams at Addenbrooke’s hospital to deliver to NHS staff and key workers during the PPE shortage in April. About 5000…

Inspired by lockdown events and online training, we’ve been exploring how we can make it easy for Makespace members to record and livestream things from Makespace.

The first version of the resulting “Makespace Studio” is now coming together, so here is a little about how it is shaping up:

The core of the Makespace Studio setup is based around the Black Magic ATEM Mini Pro ISO which supports 4 HDMI cameras/inputs, can livestream to Youtube, output as a webcam (to input in to e.g.…

This weeks Family Makers was “Musical Machines”, using these videos as inspiration:

Three different takes on making musical machines! We then set about making our own form of mechanical music makers. Here is a video capturing some of the creations:

Good work on a tricky brief!

Family Makers runs every Tuesday @ 11am to help with homeschool making/D&T (or as a break from homeschooling?!). The basic format is:

• Presentation of the task/inspiration for the session
• Making time –…