The Annual General Meeting for year 8 took place at 7:30pm on 28th August 2025.  The meeting was at 65 New Road, with a number of members attending virtually.  All members should have received a 14 day notice with details of the meeting and a list of candidates […]

The MakerSpace have purchased an “Arduino Starter Kit”.  This has more than 300 components including a Mega Arduino.  The kit has an extensive set of on-line documents covering: how to get started; controlling all the different modules; and combining them to create solutions.  The documents have 73 different […]

The MakerSpace had a stand at the Jul 2025 BSides conference “Basingstoke’s premier cyber security/hacker conference!”. During the conference we were running the heat press to attach badges to various items for the attendees

The snapmaker is a combined 3D printer, laser cutter and CNC all in one.  One was donated to the MakerSpace in 2024.  This presentation showed how the laser mode works, how its Luban software can design, process and engrave. It also discussed the new manual and training course […]

Our fourth annual solder session started at 7:30 0n 13 May.  The kit this time was an FM Radio.  We had so many participants turn up that we had to expand to use both the tables.  Most of the makers were new to soldering and we had four […]