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Making a Mezzanine

🇬🇧 · Surrey and Hampshire Makerspace · 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: Matt, Andrew, Ramy, Julian, Matthew, and Ben.

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A Crackling Festival of Modular Music

🇬🇧 · Surrey and Hampshire Makerspace · Julian Warren

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 Warning signs from when the site was in use Part of a larger project the event brought together performers using modular synthesizers, giving them a chance to compose, collaborate, perform and record in this unique space. A portable modular synth system The traditional Nepali 1st Naumati Baja Gulmi UK band as accompanied on modular synth I was helping out with a beginners soldering workshop on the Sunday, where people had the chance to build a Disintegrated Cracklebox a touch controlled noise synth. A Cracklebox kit in progress Cracklebox kits ready for the start of t

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