Solder practice 2025 Do you know what happens in a makerspace? Drop in to Basingstoke Makerspace 7:00 pm EVERY Tuesday evening to find out. In the past we have … Made a garden chair   Had a pottery relay race       Made an Eiffel tower from […]

This is a series of short presentations about using Excel to solve some interesting data challenges.  Each one comes with a working Excel file that shows some advanced techniques.  We hope this is of interest.  Tell us if there is an example you want to see covered. Excel […]

 Two unboxing events – 20th & 27th Jan 2026 – Open to All Come along to two unboxing events, open to all.  The FNIRSI LC1020E meter (left) is a component tester (unboxing on the 20th).  The FNIRSI 2D15P (right) is a 3-in-1 Oscilloscope, Multimeter & Signal Generator (unboxing […]

Steve made a short video about how to remove a background hum from a video.  This uses two free tools, VLC (https://www.videolan.org/) and Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org/).  The video can be seen here:

Maritime House (65 New Road) is currently up for sale.  The MakerSpace has raised the funds required to purchase the building. We have raised the £140,000 to purchase the building.  Thanks to all the participants. The bonds will pay 4.5% interest and be repaid over 8 years.  Bonds […]