Hack the Space Days/6th December 2025

There will be a Hack the Space Day on Saturday 6th December 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 4th October 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

Task	Area	Volunteers	Completed?
Breakfast from 10:30 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. There's cereal this time too!	Kitchen	Aaron, Shane
Take photos of what you get up to today and post to Discord. It's really nice to keep track of progress and the state of the hackspace using these pages.		Everyone
General Tidying, wherever you like
Clean Comfy Area (museum) shelves - they're quite dusty!	Comfy Area
Sort through large project storage	Studio	Trustees
Vacuum dusty area	Dusty Area
Empty all the bins
PAT Testing - and labelling assets. As part of the fire risk assessment outcomes.
Mount the Electronics Area LED Matrix Display to the wall somehow.	Electronics Area
Build a stand / rail thing to stop the many leaflets in the Airlock from falling off the window sill.	Airlock
Move current Startrite Bandsaw downstairs and move 3p bandsaw from Dusty Area to Metalworking Area. This will need several people to help move.	Metalworking Area	Steve and helpers
Check vending machine item dates	Studio	Snackspace Team
Audit bandsaw blades. There are loads of bad and broken ones hanging on walls to be safely discarded. If someone could figure out how many of each size we need to buy, then someone on the woodworking team (or Shane) can buy them immediately.	Dusty Area
Poster for how to dispose of bandsaw blades once they're broken. This will include deciding how to safely throw them away. How should they be taped together? Should they go into a box? (Should we buy something specific to help disposable?)
Clean around the CNC router - lots of plastic	Workshop
Audit members boxes	Members Storage & Members Storage Downstairs	Trustees
Tidy Electronics Area benches and clean any flux residue	Electronics Area
Check the chairs in the Studio. Some of them are falling apart. Fix them if they are broken, or declare them beyond repair if that's the case. We have lots of plastic black chairs. Maybe we should switch to them at some point. Less cosy though.	Studio
Fix the Blue Room sink. We can buy parts from the hardware shop around the corner Drill hole to drain into large bucket (there is likely a large amount of water in the pipe) Cut, extend and reglue	Blue Room
Sweep and vacuum the metalworking area	Metalworking Area
Sort through random piles of components and put them in their correct place	Electronics Area
Vacuum Members Storage (upstairs).	Members Storage
Continue to organise team storage a bit more	Team Storage
Make some QR codes for commonly misused tools (e.g. band saw) pointing to a video about how to use one correctly.	Everywhere
Check posters and replace with more relevant posters, if there are any.	Everywhere
Replace print rollers in Bender	Blue Room	Aaron
Clear as much away as much material from outside the spray booth as possible. AJ has offered his van and can take it away for us. It's a shame to dispose of material. If you want anything and it's not labelled, you can have it, so long as it is removed from the space entirely. We are overflowing. :)	Workshop
Build / 3D Print / Laser Cut wall-mountable screwdriver holders for the new sets of screwdrivers (x5) - Ask Aaron for sizes.	Everywhere
Make a poster to explain the differences between pozi, philips and slotted screws/drivers - put next to/above each of the screwdriver sets. Include example photos of the screws and driver ends. Mention that using the wrong type can reduce the lifespan of the screwdrivers :) Apparently some people are not aware of the differences.