For those of you who don’t know, last weekend Eurisko Melbourne had their first event at the Arts House Meat Market. CCHS was out in force for the entire weekend, introducing people to what we do here at the HackerSpace and teaching “how-to-solder” courses. We all had a great time seeing what other groups were […]
Fearless CCHS secretary John has sent us some advance pics from his visit to the Design Museum in London. They currently have an exhibit “The future was/is here”, featuring some familiar making machines and many objects from Thingiverse. John will follow up later with some more pics and video, but has a punishing schedule
As some of you might know we recently ordered a larger Laser Tube for our laser cutter (60 Watts up from 40 Watts). Unfortunately it failed to work when installed in our machine and we all had to step back and scratch our heads. Was the tube dead on arrival? or did we have a
Its the 50th Anniversary year of Doctor Who, the Astor helped celebrate by featuring a special double screening of Doctor Who movies. Another screening is planned for around 4-6 months time. Who knows what earth threatening fiends will appear for that one… And as a bit of a bonus, Michael’s DALEK made an appearance
This Tuesday we were very fortunate to have with us Dr Paolo Bonato from Harvard University & SpauldingRehab. Dr Bonato presented an interesting talk on the kinds of technology required to meet the challenge of rehabilitating an aging population. Challenges outlined included 3d printing, power management, smartphone interfaces, and good design to encourage better compliance
