Month updates - November & December 2024
.gallery { line-height: 0; column-count: 2; column-gap: 0px; } .gallery > * { max-width: 100%; margin: 0; } p:has(img), .gallery { margin: 0; } .gallery img { width: 100% !important; height: auto !important; } iframe, video { display: block; margin: 0.5rem; max-width: 100%; width: auto; height: auto; } What have members of Sheffield Hackspace been up to this month? Let’s find out! Nik - window decoration Nik - an LED device Alex - a trip to soft lab James - 3D printer in a backpack Adam - organised electronics Tom - darning repairs A member - silicone D20 mould Dave - CNC machine calibration alifeee - CO2 monitoring Nik - window decoration Nik has laser-cut a hilbert curve that fits neatly as a window pane decoration. See more on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@nnenov/113380244822759727 Nik - an LED device Nik has also been learning PlatformIO. They used it to program an Arduino pro micro with an 8x32 matrix and the fastLED library. It’s the first electronics thing I made which is not a sprawl of cables and just one single cable! Again, see more on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@nnenov/113686610988811191 Alex - a trip to soft lab Alex has been exploring weaving and knitting structures, coding in knots, textile motifs as symbols, bitfields, rhythm, movement, liveness, and the internet of patterns on a residency in Eindhoven. See more on Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/113485978426705451 Also see a paper from a few years ago about a mini version, also by Alex https://zenodo.org/records/3939176 . James - 3D printer in a backpack James went to SMRFF 2024 , a 3D printer festival in Manchester, for which they made a 3D printer which works in a backpack! Adam - organised electronics Adam has been organising their electronics with 3D printed inserts. Tom - darning repairs Tom bought a darning loom and used it to fix a hole in their jumper. A member - silicone D20 mould One member designed and made a silicone icecube mould. The mould geometry was designed in CAD and from it, a mould for the silicone was created. This 3-part mould was 3D printed using PLA & PVB. The printed mould-mould was assembled and a 2-part foodsafe silicone was cast into it. Dave - CNC machine calibration Dave from Desktop Machine Shop has been rebuilding a CNC machine… I have just rebuilt the Milo v1.5 CNC machine with some upgrades: new more capable control board running RRF 55v power supply for motors to increase speed and torque new safety wiring so that SSRs are used to kill motor and spindle voltage without running high current through the e stop The machined star was just me testing out that everything was working after the rebuild. But it will be a Christmas decoration when I’m done. I’ll drill a hole and pop some ribbon through it alifeee - CO2 monitoring Finally, I set up a SCD40 CO2 monitor in the space, and attached it to the old train sign. See a lot more information in the relevant GitHub repositories: CO2 train sign: https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/co2-train-sign train sign: https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/train-signs That’s all That’s all for this month! Remember, you can: come and visit the space! https://www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/calendar/ add your own items to next month’s month update: https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/month-updates Until next time :)