York Hackspace

Today marks the Hackspace’s birthday.

Fourteen years ago on an Autumn Wednesday evening, following online discussions and a few meetings in the Black Swan, members met up in Guppy’s Enterprise Club – a space we would inhabit weekly for the next three years and ten months, to the day.

In recent years, we’ve held birthday celebrations for members and friends, and this year was no exception; we had a little party in the space.  There were friends, there were snacks, there was drinking.  No power…

Last weekend was our big move weekend. We’d love for people to come see the new space, and we have an open night tonight where you can do just that.

We are still unpacking things, rebuilding furniture, tidying up, etc. Please forgive the mess, or even better, lend a hand with what still needs doing!

Details of the new space are available on the wiki

See you there!

York Hackspace has found a new home! We’re moving to Redeness Street! It’s really close to the town centre, and to York St John University.

It’s a much bigger space, we’re going from 300 square feet (28 square metres) to 820 square feet (76 square metres)!

We’re going to have two rooms too, we hope to separate some of our loud and dirty equipment from the rest of the space, to enhance opportunities for quiet socialising. It’s going to feel much more spacious. I’ve drawn the area of…

The Space will be open to the public on Saturday 27th August from 12:30 to 15:00.

Feel free to drop by and say hello and see what we are all about.

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/offenehackerspaces

I recently got into making espresso at home. As part of that I had an old cork mat that I wanted to use to store some of the paraphernalia on. The mat that I wanted to use had a burn mark in the middle but that sanded out quite easily and left a nice smooth surface.

I did a quick image search for “Coffee flower svg” and found an image that I liked then imported that into inkscape. Setting up the paper size in inscape to match the mat size allowed me to scale it to the right size. I converted…

We are starting to re-open the space after the COVID restrictions. Right now Members can start to visit the space by booking in advance. This is still very limited at the moment due to the shared nature of the building but we will hope to open up over the coming months in line with the overall plan for the country.

Please see the Covid Page for more information about the latest status.

We are still meeting up weekly on Discord for the open meetings see the contact page for more details.

It will…

It’s been a while, so I figured I’d try to bore some of you with some old computer stuff.  Who knows, maybe someone will find this either useful or interesting

I rescued a bunch of old consoles and computers from my parents’ place last time I was over, among them a Spectrum +3 (yes, I know, it’s really an Amstrad…) with a bunch of 3″ disks, tapes, and a Cheetah 125+ joystick.

Cheetah 125+ joystick

The joystick needed some work doing, and while I was on with that I took a look at its autofire,…

As we’ve all been told to stay home for the time being, open nights will not be taking place.

We’ll still be maintaining our online presence, so please drop by our discord for a chat, or post on the Google group.

I wanted a cover for my kindle and had been pondering it for a while drawing up some ideas of more and more elaborate cases with various pockets. Then I decided to try and focus a bit and reduce the case to the bare basics. I like to have a notepad with me when I read as I tend to get in a thinking mood quite often when I have been reading so it’s nice to have somewhere to get those thoughts out of my head. I had a few of these little notebooks that seemed to be just a little bit bigger than…

For some time now I have wanted to make a roller top desk. These are normally made by cutting a plank of wood intro strips and sticking them to a piece of cloth backing to allow it to flex. This wobbly sheet is then held in a captive groove at either side allowing it to roll when pushed from one side. This creates a curved cover that rolls away in a satisfying manner. My first thought was to cut a single sheet of A4 ply into strips using the laser cutter and then follow the classic design but…