Potteries

Hi all,

Following our Annual General Meeting for 2020 we have some updates.

Thanks to everyone who attended, we truly couldn’t have done it without you. You keep this going.

The Annual General Meetings were minuted and are available to any interested party on demand.

Highlights were:

• Potteries Hackspace Activities for 2020 presentation
• Although we are currently operating at a loss, an injection of cash should allow us to explore exciting new options
• The organisation will continue to…

Hi all,

Just a quick message to let you know that our Annual General Meeting is next week.

We’re calling a general meeting.

It’s a bit later than expected in the year mainly due to Coronavirus preventing our regular meetups.

It’s more important than ever because we have some exciting news that may affect the way we operate going forward and we’d like everyone’s input.

The general meeting is only open to paying members only from the prior 12 month period.

We must follow the government…

Richard Smedley owned the potterieshackspace.org domain since around 2010, when the first meet up occurred.

Since then, Richard has had little direct involvement in the group, but always kept the domain registered and allowed us the exclusive use of it.

Unfortunately, in August we became aware that the domain name had been hijacked, and was unrecoverable.

So behold, we have a new domain: potterieshackspace.org.uk, kindly supplied by Phurix Web Hosting.

Thanks.

Back in June we took part in the “Stoke-on-Trent Soapbox Derby”.

Here’s a montage of the build:

Here’s the outline plan of the project:

Hope you enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed building it.

Have a great 2018!

• Date/Time: Thus 17th Aug 2017, 7.00PM to 8.30PM
• Venue: 50 Broad St, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, ST1 4EU.
• Agenda: Potteries Hackspace - Meeting - AGM Agenda - 2017-08-17

Hi all,

Just a quick message to let you know that our Annual General Meeting is upon us.

Sorry it’s later than normal but we’ve been a bit busier than normal this year so the AGM ended up being delayed.

This will not be like our regular open night, there will be no hacking, instead, we’ll be having Pizza and drinks.

We…

• Saturday 27 May 10am-1pm

• Wavemaker Stoke, Mitchell Arts Centre, Broad Street, Hanley, ST1 4HG

Whether you have something that needs fixing or can volunteer to help, come down!

You are looking at the regions first repair cafe! You’ve asked for it and we have responded.

Wavemaker are teaming up with Potteries hack space we are proud to bring you our first Repair Cafe. Bring your broken, electronic items, toys, devices and anything that will challenge our team of super…

Over the last few weeks we’ve been putting together our plans to build a cart.

We entered our cart, “Kiln’ it” into the Redbull Soapbox Race.

Redbull asked us, in 100 words or less, why should they pick us? How will we bring the design to life on the course? Our answer:

We’re a bunch of hackers from the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent. We’ve got creativity in our blood. Not only does this pose the engineering challenge of being the fastest down the course, we recognise the challenge to strive…

We’ve signed up to the “Stoke-on-Trent Soapbox Derby”.

It’ll be on 4th June at 11am onwards at Hanley Park, Cleveland Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4DX.

We’ve come up with a name, a few designs and we have an idea for how it’s all actually going to work.

Next up: Wheels.

Hope you’ve all had a nice break over the festive period and are looking forward to the New Year ahead.

As you may know, we’ve moved the Hackspace to the city centre.

We’re now at:

50 Broad St, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, ST1 4EU

We’ve been here for a few months now and are pretty settled in now and we’re raring to go.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is, while we were were moving space, our equipment was in storage at a shared facility.

Much to our dismay, it seems that during this…

Hi all,

We’d like to share with you the current situation for Potteries Hackspace membership subscriptions and how we have arrived at an annual based model for basic membership with a monthly opt-in for full access to the space.

In our recent meetings, we’ve reviewed our budget for the coming year and put forward a proposal that reflects the changing needs and wants of the group.

There was also a problem identified in that there are a number of interested people who want to contribute to or…