As mentioned in a previous post, the hackspace has been working on getting an old Heathkit Hero robot up and running. We are almost starting to build up a mini library of printable Heathkit Hero 1 parts. The latest edition is not so much a replacement but a component fix that should allow a broken Read more about Heathkit Hero Printable Parts[…]
Quite a busy night at the Swindon Hackspace tonight. Welcome to the five(!) new people who turned up to see what we get up to at our weekly meetings, hope you had an enjoyable evening and we’ll see you again next week. Along with the regulars it made for a pretty full room. After resetting Read more about Meeting Report – 3rd July 2013[…]
Gyrobot was made available to the Swindon Museum of Computing on Hackspace night; 19th June 2013 for their upcoming Robots Revealed exhibition. For those that are not familiar with Gyrobot, it was my (Steve Wood) entry into the UK Robot Wars series 6 and 7, back in 2002. Gyrobot originally started its journey in 2000 Read more about Gyrobot Resurrection[…]
On June 5th we celebrated our 1st year anniversary. Rather than attend a usual meet we decided to relocate the Hackspace to the more informal surroundings of the Sir Daniel Arms for a bite to eat and some drinks: We met at the Museum of Computing between 6:30 and 7pm, left a map to the Read more about First Year Anniversary Meet Up[…]
The Museum of Computing in Swindon has a working Teletype and a desire to get it to print out tweets as part of a display in the museum. Since the Swindon Hackspace was based in the museum it was a perfect project for hackspace members. Current Loop Interface The teletype uses a current loop interface to communicate Read more about Twitter to Teletype[…]
Here’s some basic resources to get started pushing code to github. Note: As well as computer source code, git is useful for tracking changes to anything that can be represented as plain text, e.g. German Law. The simplest use of git is to create the repo locally, stored in the same folder as the source Read more about Resources for Using Git[…]