Hack the Space Days/10th August 2025

There will be a Hack the Space Day on Sunday the 10th August 2025. It's all hands on deck improving our space! This wiki page is intended to detail exactly what needs doing so that we were all working towards the same goals. See 7th June 2025 for what we got up to last time (lots!)!

Many thanks to the people giving their time to make this a success.

You're welcome to start working on these tasks at any time, if you can't make the day. Every little helps.

Tasks

Sub-task	Area		Volunteers	Completed?
Breakfast at 10:30am in the Hackspace Kitchen A couple of helpers are welcome - add your name to the volunteer column :) No charge, small donations welcome. This is mostly as a thanks for coming.	Kitchen		Aaron, Dee	Done
General Tidying			Mags, others	Done
Fire Risk Assessment Task - Fill cable trunking holes with fire foam.	Hackspace 2.5		AJ or someone that has spoken to AJ	Done
Fire Risk Assessment Task - Clear downstairs corridor. This is a fire escape route.	Main Corridor		Mags
Fire Risk Assessment Task - Add signage "Push Bar to Open" on Airlock outer door.	Airlock		Mags Nick will grab this while doing all the other signs.	It will be there on Wednesday.
Vacuum Comfy Area	Comfy Area		Mags
Once over of all the instruments in the Comfy Area, restring, clean, tune as necessary	Comfy Area		Dee
Give Studio Floor a clean	Studio
The usual clear out of the Laser Area	Laser Area		Any and all welcome	Done
Build a small shelf on the middle bench in the Electronics Area for holding the CircuitSpecialists CDI825A Rework Station.	Electronics Area		Electronics Team and woodworkers unite! (Mags if I have time)
Fix the Kitchen cutlery drawer again	Kitchen
Sort through large project storage	Studio		Trustees only
Vacuum Dusty Area	Dusty Area		Sam	Done
Continue to organise team storage a bit more	Team Storage
Audit hand tools in workshop and make sure they are working fine, suggest replacements where necessary.	Workshop
Clean around CNC Area	CNC Area			Done
Empty all the bins				Done
Make some QR codes for commonly misused tools (e.g. band saw) pointing to a video about how to use one correctly.
Build a rail thing for storing SMT reels under the reflow oven bench in Electronics Area	Electronics Area		Electronics Team and others!
Build a test lead comb for hanging test leads on the wall (rather than keeping them in a horrible box)	Electronics Area		Electronics Team and others!	Done  by Sam!
PAT Testing - and labelling assets. As part of the fire risk assessment outcomes.			Someone that knows what they're doing	Done  a bit
Find some drawers which aren't labelled and label them!
Tidy Electronics Area benches and floor	Electronics Area			Done
Redo LED and sign-off/induct button wiring on Bridgeport Nhtools	Metalworking Area		Aaron / Network Team	Done
Make a sign explaining how to turn on the Electronics Extraction (The Defumener), and how to best use it. Laminator time!	Electronics Area		Electronics Team or an interested member! Nick is happy to have a crack at this.	Colour copy coming on Wednesday
Mount the Electronics Area LED Matrix Display to the wall somehow.	Electronics Area
Build a nice bench to replace the two exam desks in the Craft Room... ask Betty for more details.	Craft Room			Done
Update signage (donations QR code is a bad). Mention hot air and the bench mat, point to soldering extraction switch	Electronics Area		Nick is happy to have a crack at this, but may need a few iterations/reviews.	Colour copies coming on Wednesday
General tidy of the Blue Room	Blue Room		Dee	Done
Make posters "do's and don'ts" for the two bleed kits.	Dusty Area & Metalworking		Nick	Colour copy coming on Wednesday
Swap out the workshop network switch for one of the newer ones.	Workshop		Aaron / Network Team	Done
Identify basic missing tools and post somewhere on Discord (e.g. we're always looking for tape measures, do we have enough callipers, other things like that)	Workshop
Sort through recent component donations.	Electronics Area		Electronics Team
Check and replenish first aid kits			Trustees	Done
Install inline water filter for ice maker	Kitchen		Jay/Dee
Tidy and organise bike area, bike area wiki with available tools	Bike Area
Identify who loaned the long term loans in the library. We know what is a long term loan, but not from who. https://www.librarything.com/catalog/NottinghamHackspace?tag=Long+Term+Loan&collection=-1	Library			Done
Fix the spelling on (at least one of) the broken tools posters	3D Printing		Nick continuing his OCD-driven poster drive	Colour copy coming on Wednesday
Nice poster for ice machine	Kitchen		Nick	Colour copy coming on Wednesday
Stop the test bench lighting from falling off	Electronics Area		Jason	Done
Add chassis grounding wire to Studio Display	Studio		Aaron	Done

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