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Author Archives: Andy Kirby
What have you been watching
I had never been a big fan of watching youtube videos but it has been a long year of lockdowns without the benefit of EMF Camp or interacting with other making folk as much as we like to, picking up … Continue reading
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Looking forward to meetings
The lockdown seems to be progressing towards opening up, and boy has it been along one. We took some time out to get in touch again with The Railway Hotel in central Doncaster where we meet up and see how … Continue reading
Local Shoutout
We are big fans of supporting the wider local hacking and making community. To this end whilst in conversation recently I had my attention drawn to some local creative folk who we would like to give a shout out to. … Continue reading
Hackspace Meetings Go Virtual
We are gutted, due to the coronavirus restrictions now in force we are no longer permitted to hold our weekly meetings on Thursday evenings at The Railway Hotel. This is set to be the case whilst ever Doncaster is in … Continue reading
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Dome Prototyping
Hard at work having fun during last nights meeting musing on dome prototypes for the next EMF Camp. Initial design ideas that we are iterating upon are based on Fullerenes specifically the Buckminster Fullerenes C60, C70 and maybe C90. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Buckminster Fullerene, Construction, EMF Camp, Fullerene
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Doncaster Hackspace has a weekly physical meetup
The Railway Hotel in Doncaster has kindly offered us the use of their snug for our weekly Thursday evening meetup. So a big thank you to Jordan and the guys at the Railway Hotel, @Railway_Donc, @railwaydoncaster. We will be meeting … Continue reading
Zoom Upgrade
We have upgraded our Zoom account @zoom_us so that our scheduled sessions and user group meetings are no longer time limited. Many thanks to our members whose subscription has made this possible. Out next task is to sort out a … Continue reading
First official session
As most of the initial hackspace founding is now complete we had our first official session (virtually) using Zoom on Thursday 23rd July. So we are now, officially open for business and new members. We have picked Thursday evenings 19:00 … Continue reading
Making our Logo
Doncaster hackspace needed a stylised logo, suggesting speed, going places and local engineering. So we decided to base it on the LNER Mallard and made one. Easy to say it that way but the method is straightforward enough if you … Continue reading
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Tagged Doncaster Works, Inkscape, LNER, Locomotive, Logo, Mallard, Science Museum
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Doncaster Hackspace has IRC
It has been a fun and eventful weekend setting up our IRC channel #DoncasterHackspace on freenode. Fuchs from freenode was pretty awesome and incredibly helpful even helping us along over the weekend. He even pointed us at their webchat IRC … Continue reading
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