2024-08-01-month-updates-july-2024.md

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Month updates - July 2024	2024-08-01T00:00:00+01:00	alifeee	post	/month-updates-july-2024/	Month updates from July 2024 - what's been going on around Sheffield Hackspace?

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What have members of Sheffield Hackspace been up to this month?

Let's find out!

1. We opened up a gift box from Pimoroni
2. Nik - modular origami
3. Rich - living hinges
4. Jonathan - wood turning
5. Richard - blinking LEDs
6. Stephen - hand-made plane
7. Alex - robotic arm
8. alifeee - rag rug
9. Rich - vertical pen plotter
10. Alex - plants

We opened up a gift box from Pimoroni

Pimoroni gave us a box of electronics goodies and we spent an evening looking through it to see what ideas of RGB LED or sensing nature we could think of!

Nik - modular origami

Nik has been folding Sonobe modules.

1. a Truncated icosahedron with 30 modules. 2. a handful of modules 3. a hexahedron, or Toshie's jewel 4. several things made of Sonobe modules (picture from Wikipedia)   

Rich - living hinges

Rich has used a fascinating laser-cutting technique called a "living hinge" to create a laser-cut book cover! To create the hinge, they used the Inkscape extension: https://inkscape.org/~drphonon/%E2%98%85living-hinge-creator-for-inkscape-10

 

Jonathan - wood turning

Jonathan has been using the wood lathe to create gonk bottle openers and turned pots.

   

Richard - blinking LEDs

Richard has made a library for Arduino or ESP which blinks out any number from 0 to 99999 on the inbuilt LED.

From https://github.com/RichardLangner/BlinkDigits

For example 390 is blinked as
3 brief flashes,
9 brief flashes,
0 (one long flash).

Stephen - hand-made plane

Stephen has hand-made a dovetailed wood plane.

       

Alex - robotic arm

Alex has been playing with robotics and has made their own robotic arm!

My goal is to build a robotic arm to automate tasks at home and work. I'm passionate about the intersection of the physical and virtual worlds. While robotic arms have been around for a while, advancements in control methods are transforming the field. This project marks my first step in building and controlling a robotic arm.

alifeee - rag rug

Inspired by Liverpool Makefest last month, I found a latch hook at an antiques shop in Sheffield, and made a small rag rug as an experiment. I think it's neat :) I might try and make a much bigger one (no more throwing away fabrics!), which will take... a lot longer.

 

Rich - vertical pen plotter

Inspired by a project in the Hackspace magazine, Rich bought a few motors, some electronics, and a Raspberry Pi Zero, and put it together into a vertical pen plotter. The hardware is all set up, now it's just waiting on the software working!

   

Alex - plants

Alex has been propagating the spider plants in the space, and has made a nursery for baby plants out of a falafel salad lid, laser cut Perspex and decorative cardboard.

   

That's all

That's all for this month! Remember, you can:

• come and visit the space! https://www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/calendar/
• add your own items to next month's month update: https://github.com/sheffieldhackspace/month-updates

Until next time :)