CCHS is a community workshop run by an enthusiastic group of like-minded members, located in Hawthorn, Victoria. Visitors and new members of all skill levels are very welcome. The About CCHS page has more details. CCHS is also known as the Melbourne HackerSpace or HackMelbourne and is one of many Australian HackerSpaces.
Blog post: Recent Sponsorships
We are very pleased to announce some recent sponsorships received by CCHS.
You should follow the links and check them out.
PaperCut
PaperCut provides print management software to cut the cost of printing.
CCHS is pleased to announce that Papercut, a very awesome print management company have decided to support the Hackerspace with the donation of funds towards increasing our educational supplies. This kind of support is fantastic for us and will be used to improve equipment available to our Young Hacker sessions.
You should all go and check them out and say thanks.
CamBam
CamBam is an application to create CAM files (gcode) from CAD source files or its own internal geometry editor. CamBam has many users worldwide, from CNC hobbyists to professional machinists and engineers.
CamBam have kindly donated a site license for their very capable CNC package. We love CamBams combination of simplicity and Hacker friendly configuration and are introducing it as the key way to generate GCODE for our Mill and Laser Cutter in the space. In addition to their awesome donation of a license for the hackerspace CamBam are offering members a $20 discount on any purchase of CamBam (Contact the committee to claim.)
Blog post: Tuesday Night with bonus SGM
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- It wouldn’t be a Tuesday night without inching the laser cutter closer to “working”
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- Yep, you can practically see his skeleton.
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- Bogdan shows me his stupidly high powered dive light.
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- It literally lights up the world.
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- Bob always tries to put a stumper up.
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- Damien gets closer to having a working 3d printer.
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- Nathan is making a transparent acrylic puzzle
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- Checking out the laser cutter
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- Brushed aluminium samples.
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- A megapod(?)
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- Bernd has some amazing resistance
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- Filling up before the SGM
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- Hanging the transparent door to the back room of the space.
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- It’s amazingly insulated for a single layer of acrylic
Blog post: 3D printing on a cold and foggy night
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- “The Bosh”. Need I say more?
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- Trystan printed and photographed
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- The Cube. Coming soon to a crowdsourcing site near you
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- An UP! printing away.
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- The transparent door kept the heat in.
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- LiFX test unit.
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- This regular (not a LiFX!) bulb passed the “light up” test, but failed all the others. Makes sense, it doesn’t have fancy RGB colours…
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- The innards of the light testing box.
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- Dave’s extruder got stripped down.
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- Part 2 of the striped down extruder.
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- James shows off his 3d printed Wheatley.
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- it NEARLY fits on the camera.