#hackspaces

[cassolotl]

Do you want these?

This is a "break glass for emergency key" kit:

And this is an electronic lock with a thing with a key fob scanner box that can save up to 999 key fobs, plus some override keys and an emergency exit button, all running on a UK mains plug:

For the latter, I can also send a manual.

Does anyone think they might have use for any of it? I am happy to send it to anyone in the UK for price of postage. I'm thinking it might be especially useful for a small, beginner makerspace that wants to be available 24/7 to members, without having to get keys cut all the time. Key fobs are so cheap, and you can remotely deactivate one if someone gets banned.

Our makerspace has just upgraded the door system, so this stuff is going spare, and I would hate for it to be thrown out!

[cassolotl]

Me and three friends are trying to set up a makerspace in our town, but it ain't easy 'cos we're BROKE and so is the town. :D Would you like to donate a bit of money and get a cheesy 3D-printed souvenir doubloon for your trouble?? PROBABLY

It closes on 28th August, click here to help out.

[pauljacobevans]

A Tale Of Two Raft Races

It’s the height of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and hackers and makers everywhere are letting their hair down and enjoying the hot weather on the water. By coincidence last weekend there were two very different raft races in the European hackspace community, at the SHACamp2017 gathering in the Netherlands the villages competed in a cardboard raft race, while on the other side of the English Channel the various hackspaces in and around London came together in a raft race using more conventional materials. The SHA race came about through the happy confluence of a surplus of disposable cardboard tents, …read more http://pje.fyi/PfsVQY

[pauljacobevans]

The Complex Issue Of Hackspace Donations

More than one member of the Hackaday team has significant involvement in a hackspace, as member, director, or even founder. We talk about hackspaces quite rarely on these pages though, not because we don’t have anything to say on the matter but because even when we write in general terms our fellow members invariably think it’s all about them rather than the hackspace world at large. For once I’m going to break the silence, and not only talk about hackspaces, but talk about my own hackspace in specific terms. Because, fellow Oxford Hackspace members, this isn’t about you personally though …read more http://pje.fyi/NvlHwl

[computermagazine]

The Shop: Toronto's new inclusive makerspace

The Shop: Toronto’s new inclusive makerspace

Toronto’s great wealth of makerspaces continues to grow: now there’s The Shop, an “all-inclusive makerspace with a focus on woodworking, metal and ceramics.”

They offer members access to well-stocked workshops with metal/woodworking tools and ceramics equipment; and they run regular classes on making various useful and lovely things at all levels of mastery, and they have a retail shop where…

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[stephenfrancoeur]

Pull quote: "I'm particularly looking forward to the day that hackspaces and libraries begin to realize that they're approaching the same problem from different directions, and a corner of the local branch into an e-waste recycling depot where librarians and tinkerers will help you build and outfit your own PC, giving you the technical and information literacy to understand what your computer is doing on your behalf."

[stephenfrancoeur]

Pull quote: "The Maker Space concept does not work unless all are involved – librarians, members, experts, children, parents – understand that they are all learning at the same time. If a kid shows up and is trained and treated as a consumer, the Maker Space will fail. No $2,000 MakerBot can match the quality of a store bought lego or toy. No, the trick is to show the child, or parent, or member, that they are part of a learning process and discovering something new – if only it is new to them. They have to be in on the truth that we are all just figuring this out as we go."