October 2011
3 posts
Visit to Make Hack Void
On Saturday we went to visit our sister hackerspace, Make Hack Void, down in Canberra.
The MHV crowd greeted us for a breakfast feast nearby, and then took us to their space.
Hackerspaces in Australia seem to have really taken off. There’s now one in almost every state and territory. They vary from garage sized, to warehouses. MHV is clearly on the big end of the scale. It’s...
Lasercut Menger Sponge
One of our members, Jaye, has been up to a rather special project in the last couple of weeks, a 3D Menger Sponge from lasercut acrylic. Here’s her writeup:
Hey there coruscating hivebrain, As there was some interest when I mentioned it previously, I figured I’d write up my first attempt to build a Menger sponge with the laser cutter, acrylic sheet, and water-thin solvent based...
General Hacking at the Space
The space has been very productive recently. Here’s some photos of various projects going on.
Macca and Luke got up to some aluminium anodizing for an audio project build. Here’s his writeup:
http://www.evolutionarytheory.com/2011/09/diy-anodizing/
Here’s the result after the dye had been set:
It takes a lot of courage to laser your laptop:
David (Talsit) designed...
