Hitchin Hackspace

As of 13 Jan 2025 this account will be inactive. You can find us on Mastodon and Bluesky:
@[email protected]
@hackhitchin.bsky.social

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

Sadly Xitter has become too toxic for us to maintain a presence here. We will cease posting to this account in 7 days.
We can be found on Mastodon and Bluesky here:
@[email protected]
@hackhitchin.bsky.social

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

@ChrisHillidge Got the address wrong 🤦‍♂️ corrected now. .... Will delete the incorrect post later....

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

Monday the 6th January is the first open evening of 2025 at #HitchinHackpace. Why not come along and see what the #hackspace is all about? From 19:30. Free tea or coffee and biccies 🫖☕��🙂
#make #craft #invent #learn #Hitchin #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock

[Herts Police @HertsPolice]

❗There is a road closure following a road traffic collision on the A1 at junction 6 southbound by #WelwynGarden City this morning and drivers are asked to find an alternative route.

The road is likely to be closed for some time.

Thank you for your patience.

[hackaday @hackaday]

Jenny List tells us all about her hackerspace, what these spaces mean, and how they operate.

https://t.co/K6mSNsHuvz

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

The main target of today’s expedition was this, however - an excavated Roman bathhouse in a corrugated iron bunker under the A1(M) near Welwyn. And this is a place with which I have a special connection… (thread)

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

@AliGumble @gameboyscene @emfcamp Thank you ☺️

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

@broomoftrigger We were going to @emfcamp and had wanted to have a group project which members could get involved with to take to the event. We had a lot of the LED panels and wanted to make something using them. Sadly it wasn't ready in time to take it to EMF.

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

Construction work started on making the outer shell and buttons.

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

There were some rough calculations for the size of the screen. In order for people to be able to play the GameBoy Monumental there would need to be a controller. One was designed by slicing the top off a cad model and then installing buttons / controls and a control wire.

[Prof Margaret Low MBE @megjlow]

Interested in #creativeprogramming? Design patterns using @turtlestitch and stitch them onto fabric. Crafting with Code workshop for children aged 9-11 at @RI_Science on Wed 21st (AM + PM).

https://t.co/IXrhsC1vAb

#WMGoutreach @wmgwarwick
#STEMeducation #STEM #CreativeArts

[hackaday @hackaday]

Categorizing Steel
https://t.co/RaeygfQqdN

[Royal Academy of Engineering @RAEngNews]

🌌 For Meganne Christian, her chemical engineering degree was the beginning of a journey that took her on research expeditions to Antarctica, in zero gravity and finally, to becoming a European Space Agency reserve astronaut. Read her story in #IngeniaMag https://t.co/fDF1lLqTp7

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

@leeinroyston @hertscc Looking at it as a positive at least they are thinking about it and talking about it. Which can't be a bad thing surely?

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

@leeinroyston @hertscc They indirectly refer to already running events like @PlasticFreeHit, your #RoystonRepairCafe, #Stevenage and #Letchworth:
"Cllr Buckmaster points to the success of similar initiatives that periodically operate in the area – that the community finds “really useful”."

[Hitchin Hackspace @HackHitchin]

@leeinroyston @hertscc The article mentions that HCC are "..looking at whether it has the space for repair organisations to hold pop-up 'repair cafes'.."
Also
"No decisions have yet been taken on where the ‘repair cafes’ may be based – how many there might be or how they would operate."