YES! OUR FIRST OPEN HOUSE SINCE THE COVID LOCKDOWN! We’ve finally mustered up the courage to let more people in. Our first post-COVID open house is scheduled for Thursday May 5, 2022 in our home at the David Dunlap Observatory. If you’ve been before, you still want to come out. We have lots of new […]
It has been a busy month at Newport Makerspace! Mae hi wedi bod yn fis prysur yng Nghreudy Casnewydd! Makers’ Night has been super busy! We are at capacity most weeks now which is a fantastic problem to have. We are doubling down efforts to launch our makerspace membership, which is currently in a pilot. We expect that the makerspace will be open for use between 9.30am and 4pm on Weekdays and Saturdays for members in the very near future now – how exciting! Standard membership for the makerspace is £10 per month Mae’r Nosweithiau Gwneuthurwyr wedi bod yn hynod o brysur! Rydym ni’n llawn y rhan fwyaf o wythnosau nawr, sy’n broblem wych i’w chael. Mae pawb yn torchi llewys i lansio aelodaeth y creudy, ac mae honno’n cael ei chynnal fel cynllun peilot ar hyn o bryd. Yn y dyfodol agos iawn, rydym ni’n disgwyl y bydd y creudy yn agored i’w ddefnyddio gan aelodau rhwng 9.30am a 4pm o ddydd Llun i ddydd Sadwrn – am gyffrous! £10 yw Aelodaeth safonol y creudy. We finally installed our Warco WM-16 Milling Machine which has been sitting on a pa
A while ago I saw a post on a local Facebook page saying “ Help wanted from any local knitting group. One of the ladies in our sight loss club with sight loss is in need of help to carry on with her knitting. She had a gauge with Braille capability that enabled her to identify the size of the needles but unfortunately it broke and she has not been able to find a source of getting a replacement. She’s tried RNIB & Sight Cymru to no avail. If by any chance anyone has a spare/ unwanted one she would be happy to pay for it. Or if anyone could suggest where she may be able to get one she would be most grateful.” I suggested that I could help if they could not find anyone else, not because I knew exactly what to do, but because I had a rough idea. Nobody had a solution, so I started experimenting. First solution was based on an idea (copied) that using lumps you could count might work (first lump =1mm, 2 nd lump = 2 mm etc) , so I drew up this in Inkscape (left hand side is 1mm increments and right hand side is 1.5mm, 2.5mm, 3.5mm etc) I cut
Durch den Umbau am Grenzbachareal (ehemaliges “Technologiezentrum Konstanz”) ändert sich nun der Zugang zu unserem Hackerspace. Der bisherige Zugang über den Eingang an der Südseite des Gebäudes, ganz in der Nähe zu unseren Kellerräumen ist nun leider nicht mehr möglich und wird demnächst durch die neue Kindertagesstätte genutzt. Stattdessen kommt man nun über den Eingang auf der anderen Seite des Gebäudes, eigentlich an der Schulthaißstraße, zu uns. Da unsere Räume weiterhin an der gleichen Stelle sind, ist eine kurze Wanderung durch das Gebäude nötig.