Robots and Dinosaurs

We are still around and open in 2026 - Tuesdays from 5:30PM and Saturdays from around 11AM.

We close when the last keyholder leaves, so if you would like to visit us for the first time aim to arrive before 7:30PM.

If you are looking to renew your membership for the new year, head on over to our membership platform.

If you have any questions you can ask on the mailing list.

We hope to see you soon!

Welcome to 2025!

If you are looking to renew your membership for the new year, head on over to our membership platform.

If you have any questions you can ask on the mailing list.

We hope to see you in Meadowbank soon!

Andrew did a write up of one of his projects that we would love to share. We wish you all a happy ❤️Valentines Day!❤️

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Many years ago I came across the idea for a GPS treasure box, from a post originally by Kenton Harris (I think - apologies if it was somebody else). Some called it a reverse geocache too, but in simple terms, it’s a locked box that only opens at a certain location. 

The idea behind the box was a very simple interaction - one button, and a screen. The process would go like this:

1. Pre…

So, like all groups, we are terrible about updating our website.

Let this be a record that despite us not updating the website, we have been going strong the last 7 years , being open every Tuesday and Saturday (lockdown excepted) and having the space filled with creative people making stuff & having fun.

Hopefully we’ll update more frequently over the next 7 years, but in the unlikely event we don’t, please come say hello anyway.

Here’s one of our recent projects for ref. A glowing DnD dice…

So if you’re after a weekend project, and you need to placate tiny humans, you could do a lot worse than a Fairy Cottage.

A fairy cottage is like a dolls house except you don’t play with it, you put it somewhere and invite fairies to come and live in it by being quiet and going to sleep. 

I’ve taken the concept and made into a night light using an Arduino and a set of addressable LEDs.

it’s powered by a USB wallwort and each room will randomly light between 5 and ten minutes. Theoretically it…

Kris finished a project!

I needed a device that would show the temperature in the house, outside and in the kids’ room. It should also have the time. We only need it at night and we need it to be very dim. After a loooooot of prototypes this is what I made:

We had a bedside alarm clock that had internal and external temperature. But it wasn’t backlit so you couldn’t read it at night at all. Because our house is old, there is a big difference in temperature between the different rooms. Too cold…

Hi All, Gav here!

At the space recently we’ve had a few rounds of Settlers of Catan. People seemed to like it, so I figure we should have a set living on a shelf in the workshop. Some late night lasering later, and we have this:

At the request of James, this version has recesses to hold the roads and cities in place, so that his more… enthusiastic… rolls don’t knock over the board:

All the wood is bamboo ply, lasercut. The hex tiles are lightly sanded and given an acrylic paint wash, before being…

Hi All, Gav here!

You know the space is no stranger to eletronics, lasers and 3D printing, but that’s certainly not all we get up to.

Recently, I got a bunch of glass tools, and a bunch of us have been having fun making stained glass pieces, as well as doing some kiln work. Here’s a few pieces we made:

It’s a rather addictive medium to work with! There’s a huge range of colours and effects you can get. Stained glass is quick to get ideas out with, but for more intricate stuff we can use a kiln to…

Ada, Tim and everyone who was around at the time helped out a regular who runs a Mardi Gras float. Thanks everyone for the spectacular lights!

The colours all corresponded to different words on the five maypoles, so we wanted all thirty or so different strands to be different colours.

The circuit that was designed for the purpose has been written up in an electronics magazine.

There were many near misses - the electronics ran late and we never got to light up the signage, even then we…