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.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; min-height: 2rem; } iframe, video { display: block; margin: 0.5rem; max-width: 100%; width: auto; height: auto; } p { margin-top: 1rem; } What have members of Sheffield Hackspace been up to this two-months? Let’s find out what some members have been up to! EMF Camp Radical Pride stall Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 Adam - custom Skadis tool board alifeee - Embroidered EMF Camp Patch alifeee - keyboard dust cover alifeee - GMTK gamejam alifeee - tiny sewing toolkit alifeee - wizard costume Felipe - 1970s computer and emulation drivers jon - exotic wood pens matthew - cat screen matthew - snufkin OJ and Matthew - fixing N64 power supply OJ - 3D printed ground terminal EMF Camp A group picture of a bunch of us from Sheffield Hackspace at EMF Camp 2026! I also wrote more about the festival on my blog :] — https://blog.alifeee.net/emf-2026/ . Radical Pride stall Sheffield Hackspace ran a stall at Sheffield Radical Pride in July! :] We talked to a lot of people, showed off our project book , and ran some activities like finger-loom weaving and lino cutting/printing. Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 In August, there was a solar eclipse . It was total through Iceland and Spain, and something like 91% total from the UK. Many members of the hackspace took pictures or viewed the eclipse from Sheffield :] — here are some methods and pictures that we saw: The classic pinhole in a cereal box for me. I managed to hitchhike to Spain in time to see the eclipse:] … I was thinking of looking through a CD, but in the end found some eclipse glasses. I didn’t take a picture of the total eclipse, but I did take a picture of the people who were looking at the eclipse during totality! I wrote about it more on my blog ;] : https://blog.alifeee.net/solar-eclipse/ . Pinhole in foil on the window onto paper every ten mins until max occlusion Also helped the kid next door with a colender and binocular projection iPhone 16. Greerings front Gdańsk ;D Still the best filter for eclipse photos. I used a colander… Adam - custom Skadis tool board It took me a moment but most of the tools are now living on the new board. A few last ones are waiting for the new holders in the Laser room. As usual, the “let’s use existing models” mantra has failed and I’ve ended up designing parametric holders in OpenSCAD. Resources: wiki page: https://wiki.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/public/projects#tool_board Skadis board generator: https://cutmaker.co/generators/ikea_skadis Skadis board SVG template for the laser (fits the large acrylic boards available in the space): https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/skadis/blob/main/svg/590x390.svg Modified Skadis universal hook (snug fit to match the acrylic board thickness): https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/skadis/blob/main/stl/Universal%20Hook.stl Various STL-s currently used on the board: https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/skadis/tree/main/stl Source code for the Skadis Screwdriver Shelf Generator: https://github.com/dredzik/models-skadis/blob/main/src/Skadis%20Shelf.scad Source code for the Skadis Tool Holder Generator: https://github.com/dredzik/models-skadis/blob/main/src/Skadis%20Holder.scad alifeee - Embroidered EMF Camp Patch I saw that EMF Camp were selling pin badges, and they had some pictures of them online. I didn’t buy them last time in 2024, but I was sitting next to an embroidery machine, so I thought I’d see if I could make the 2024 version. I copied the design (via autotracing and manual edits) into Inkscape, and set it up for an embroidery run. You can see the stages of making a patch here: tacking stitch, followed by design, followed by a merrow around the edge (also see these on the tutorials on the wiki ). …and the final patch :] alifeee - keyboard dust cover A fairly quick keyboard dust cover using the embroidery machine, sewing machine, and overlocker. For my travel bluetooth keyboard. Wish I ironed it. The design is one of the inbuilt designs from the embroidery machine. alifeee - GMTK gamejam In July, there was a GMTK gamejam. I’ve participated in the gamejam four times now, including this year, with a slightly different team every year. The games we’ve made are on my video games page , or also my Itch.io page . This year, myself and a friend made a very simple game about growing flowers :] — you can play it on PC or phone on the Itch.io page . In total this year, there were 10.5k games made. Our game got got 20 ratings, and we ended up with a nice enough score :] Criteria Rank Score* Raw Score Creativity #1505 3.900 3.900 Artwork #2179 3.650 3.650 Narrative #4807 2.400 2.400 Audio #4916 2.700 2.700 Enjoyment #4958 2.850 2.850 alifeee - tiny sewing toolkit A few years ago, I came across tinytoolk.it , a website showing off some really nice tiny toolkits. Since then, I’ve assembled a tiny sewing kit, so I took some pictures at the hackspace and I now have an entry in the site under alifeee-sewing-kit . alifeee - wizard costume Last time, I talked about making a light-up orb . This was for part of a costume, and I finished it! I was dressing up as one of these wizards from our game Penumbra …so I also sewed together a robe out of a large grey/blue rectangular piece of fabric that I’d gotten from Scrap Dragon . …wait until nighttime, and you have a costume! What do you reckon? Wizard-ish? Felipe - 1970s computer and emulation drivers I am building a 1970s computer in my kitchen 😉 More info at: https://forum.fiozera.com.br/t/historical-preservation-of-the-patinho-feio-computer-usp-1971/94 I have been studying the history and the design of this computer for years! But more recently I actually bough chips and started manufacturing PCBs to rebuild the real thing. The server rack is still pretty much empty. It is fine to show the photo, but there are other complementary images that I think are interesting to show as well, that you can find at https://forum.fiozera.com.br/t/resgate-historico-do-computador-patinho-feio-usp-1971/58 I have also been writing MAME emulation drivers for Technics musical keyboards: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/15878 with a cool YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5xOidLLn4 jon - exotic wood pens Got a couple of nice pieces of exotic woods so made a few stylus pens and pencils out of some thuya burr and cocobola matthew - cat screen Quick cat screen for the indoor cat. matthew - snufkin a quick painting :) OJ and Matthew - fixing N64 power supply We fixed Matthew’s N64 power supply. It was a blown resistor and subsequent fuse. Had to remove a whole sub board to replace resistor tho! OJ - 3D printed ground terminal Replaced the broken ground terminal on the bench power supply with a 3D printed one. The knurling is slightly ridiculous (made it too small) but my printer with a 0.2mm nozzle has done a really good job. That’s all That’s all for this month! Remember, you can: come and visit the space! https://www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/ learn more about on joining on the wiki: https://wiki.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/ add your own items to next month’s month update: https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/month-updates Until next time :)