Author Archives: Andy Kirby

Meetings at the Railway Hotel resumed

Posted on 16 June 2021 by Andy Kirby

We have resumed the regular weekly meetings at the Railway Hotel for a little while now. In fact just as soon as we were permitted to do so. Publicans have our deepest sympathies and support, opening up again with all … Continue reading →

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What have you been watching

Posted on 20 March 2021 by Andy Kirby

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

Posted on 20 March 2021 by Andy Kirby

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 →

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Local Shoutout

Posted on 14 October 2020 by Andy Kirby

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 →

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Hackspace Meetings Go Virtual

Posted on 14 October 2020 by Andy Kirby

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

Posted on 25 September 2020 by Andy Kirby

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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Doncaster Hackspace has a weekly physical meetup

Posted on 18 August 2020 by Andy Kirby

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 →

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Zoom Upgrade

Posted on 11 August 2020 by Andy Kirby

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 →

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First official session

Posted on 26 July 2020 by Andy Kirby

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 →

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