Shop in Festival Place – 2025

As part of Basingstoke “Green Week” the MakerSpace will have a shop in Festival Place.  It is on the upper level in the corner unit next to Swarovski and opposite Starbucks. It is expected this will be from the 9th-13th Jun.  The shop should be open between 10am […]

Building a Backup Appliance – 8pm 8 Apr 2025

Keeping an up-to-date, secure and off-site, copy of your data is important. But arranging to do that can be time consuming and hard to organise.  In this short talk Steve explained how a Raspberry Pi has been used to build an easy to use “Backup Appliance” that safeguards […]

USB from A to C: 18 Mar 2025

At the Open Evening on Tues 18 Mar Kevin gave a talk about the USB standard. Universal Serial Bus, more commonly known as USB, was launched in 1996. Since then a bewildering range of connector shapes and sizes have been used, and the standard has gone through versions […]

4 Axis Mill – 8pm 25 Feb

Learn about our 4 axis vertical metal mill Understand the how to use a metal mill to create a wide verity of cut shapes and holes in Aluminium and Brass. This demonstration explained the parts of the mill and how they are used to move the workpiece around […]

Generating A Realistic Physical Statue.

For the last ten years, I have wanted to create a high-quality head and shoulder model of my wife, carved from a solid wooden block. The production of a sufficiently error-free 3D model of a real person capable of being provided to a CNC machine for 3D carving […]