Hitchin Hackspace

Potton Raspberry Jam is next Saturday at 1pm! mailchi.mp/87ae86f0fc57...
#raspberrypi #raspberryjam #bedfordshire #cambridgeshire #computing #electronics

At Assemble :-)

Next Saturday I’m hosting a fundraiser for Club 85 Hitchin for my birthday with a smashing lineup Tempest Saint OPENSIGHT Tellers Scribe For the Hornets Lost Without Cause plus G La Roche to start things off!

Expect cake balloons. Fancy dress is you feel like it and please have fun!

Self portrait in 64 x 64 pixels displayed on my Giant Unicorn.

All set up at #AssembleDerby25. Come say Hi!

Monday the 27th October is our next open evening 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

Anywhere near #Derby tomorrow, Saturday 25th October, and interested in #making things or doing things with #technology? Then get along to #Assemble at #DerbyMuseum visit the event website here..
derbymuseums.org/assemble/

We'd like to thank everyone who came to Champs at the weekend! From the incredible crowd, the really strong showing of roboteers but most importantly our amazing volunteer crew, we had the best time! Fight video will be out very soon.

I hit a bit of a brick wall this weekend programming a save buffer function for the colour picker. Then copied and then reinstated the saved data was lost! After a bit of thinking I realised that copying the buffer, that the data was not copied just the labels pointing to the original buffer 1/2

Anywhere near #Derby this Saturday 25th October and interested in #making things or doing things with #technology? Then get along to #Assemble at #DerbyMuseum

I will be at Assemble, Darby on Saturday, showing off the @pimoroni.com Giant Unicorn hat and other projects.
#GiganticUnicorn

YouTube video by Joe Brown BBB Beetle Champs 2025 - Full Competition - Bristol Bot Builders Beetleweight Combat Robots

Edited video from the event livestream: youtu.be/6pfFTds9S0Q?...

Livestream: BBB Beetle Champs 2025 - Beetleweight Combat Robot Tournament - Bristol Bot Builders 48 beetleweight robot combat competition live at St Michael's Centre, in Bristol, UK! ~Tournament bracket: https://bbb.gd/fightSpectator Programme: https://b...

We're going live around 11am BST tune in here: BBB.gd/stream

Potton Raspberry Jam! (Pi & Pints) - Two weeks to go! Come and join us on Saturday, 1st November at The Rising Sun pub.
#raspberrypi #raspberryjam #electronics #computing #potton #bedfordshire #cambridge #cambridgeshire
More information here:
mailchi.mp/a509f76448d3...

The Bristol Bot Builders arena. Teams are lining up to the left for tech check.

Fig roll, with flipper arm in the up position, showing the rope-and-capstan spring cocking mechanism

Flesh coloured spring flipper robot Fig Roll, with some of the top armour off, showing a brushless servo motor for the flipper, and belt 4wd.

I'm at @bristolbotbuilders.com Champs today, supporting @pinski1.bsky.social and his new robot Fig Roll

Software has been started, the LEDs buffer is sent to the PyGame on a Raspberry Pi.
#GiganticUnicorn

Working on the layout for the colour sector for my #GiganticUnicorn project, you are able to change the colour of individual pixels on the Unicorn hats.... Well you will be able to when I finish the programming :-)

Monday the 20th October is our next open evening 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

Craig working on an adorable little pink and white battle bot

Just had a great interview with Bristol Bot Builder @craigcroucher.bsky.social ahead of their big bot battle this weekend!

@bristolbotbuilders.com

This is some of the fantastic robots coming to compete at BBB Beetle Champs 2025 on Saturday! We will be livestreaming at bbb.gd/stream

Poster artwork for 23rd October's Hitchin Mostly Comedy.

Just nine days left until 23rd October's seventeenth anniversary #Hitchin #MostlyComedy, featuring Live at The Apollo's @amygledhill.bsky.social, QI's @comedylopez.bsky.social, Saven Chadha, & host, @davidephgrave.bsky.social.

Book now at www.ticketsource.co.uk/mostly-comedy

Livestream: BBB Beetle Champs 2025 - Beetleweight Combat Robot Tournament - Bristol Bot Builders 48 beetleweight robot combat competition live at St Michael's Centre, in Bristol, UK! ~Tournament bracket: https://bbb.gd/fightSpectator Programme: https://b...

We will be livestreaming from around 11am here: bbb.gd/stream

BBB Beetle Champs 2025 has fully sold out! Thank you so much to everyone who's bought a ticket, we'll see you on Saturday.
If you can no longer make it you can use resale on headfirst to sell on your ticket to somebody on the waiting list.

In or around Hitchin tomorrow evening? Fancy meeting some of the folks from the Hackspace socially at a pub with good beer? Tuesday evening is Hitchin Hackspace Social Night at the Vic...
#Hitchin #Hackspace #Stevenage #Letchworth #Baldock #NorthHerts #Social

The #RepairCafe at #HitchinHackspace is fully booked this Saturday 11th October.

Thanks to #PlasticFreeHitchin for organising the event and to all the Repairers who will be very busy fixing things for folks....

#Hitchin #FullyBooked

Also on Tuesday our monthly social at our local pub....

Monday the 13th October is our next open evening 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

As mentioned by @cannonfodder.bsky.social a while ago there is a very good #maker event in #Derby later this month. If you are near Derby on the 25th October head along to #Assemble at #DerbyMuseum
derbymuseums.org/assemble/

At the top of the image is the Hitchin Hackspace "H" logo in the centre of a circle. The H is at 45 degrees and the character has a square outline. The words "Hitchin Hackspace", along with the H in the circle, are laser engraved on to an A4 sized sheet of Birch plywood. It should be at the pub, to help identify us, providing one of our members remembers to bring it!🤦‍♂️

Tuesday, 14th October, is our monthly #HitchinHackspace Social Night, at The Vic just down the road from the Hackspace, from 19:30/20:00.
Look out for our sign, say hello and find out about your local #Hackspace over a refreshing beverage or two #Hitchin #Letchworth #Stevenage #Baldock

We're now less than two weeks from BBB Beetle Champs 2025 - the competitors are locked in, less than half the tickets remain, grab yours now: bbb.gd/tickets