Open day 2011
On Sunday 29th May 2011 we held the first Big Open Day Event at Nottingham Hackspace 2.0. It was a great success, attracting many visitors and new members. Guests were invited to attend from other Hackspaces and the event was widely advertised locally & nationally. It was a celebration of the new Hackspace and a publicity/recruitment opportunity.
Summary
The day was split into two parts.
The 1st Part: Members, friends and guest of Nottingham Hackspace brought projects/items of interest etc to show to the general public. There were demos, presentations, and tours of the Hackspace.
The 2nd Part The Hackspace Warming Party from 16:00 involved eating drinking & making merry.
What happened?
Projects and talks that were on show
- About the Hackspace and the Hackerspace movement by Dominic
- Knitting with nontraditional items by Kate
- RepRap --Lwk
- DocLittle's pedel powered stuff
- Milk bottle lights by Davidhayward
- Props, guns, cameras, books, etc by Jake
- Braille Tweeter under construction by Russell
Soldering Area
- Solder Badges --Matt Little and others
- Drawdio --Matt Little and others
Bike Area
- Pedal Sounds --Matt Little
- Peddle Bubble Machine --Matt Little
- Peddle Smooties --Matt Little and others to help run this...
- Fruit needed --Matt Little to buy on Saturday
Interactive Area
- Lock Picking Table
- Mythbusters Paper Table for drawing on --Dominic
- Slide show
- The Knitting Machine
- Crochet
Meet the Hackers/Members Area in Studio
- Martin/Northackton
- RepRap 3D Printing
- Jake's Instructables etc
- Kate's Knitting
- Marcus' LED Matrix prototype
- Arduino Tank
- TV Out Board
- Cheesiod
- Russ and Rocio: Braille Tweeter in porgress and the light-up cane
Credits
The open day gave us the impetus to get lots of things finished off. In addition to all the projects listed above, many people helped with preparation for the event.
- Tony_S finished painting the giant H, which has become a distinctive feature of the space.
- Dominic Painted the signs out side by the Roden Street door and ones to point around the corner.
- James got extra drinks to stock up Snackspace.
- We (mostly User:Lwk) tidied up the blue room.
- We tidied the tools and workshop (for once), mopped the floors and cleaned the toilets!
- Lwk mounted the uk map on the pin board by the members window and got some map pins:
- Green for Nottinghack members
- Red: Visitors
- Blue: other Hackspace's friends and places we have visited.
- We installed the cinema seats.
- We got the LED matrix partly working (enough for a demo).
- Energy monitor. Just use the OWL, no time to rig to nanode(which don't have) --Lwk
- Lwk rebuilt a bench.
- Jake made some tags to be worn around necks, reading 'Ask me about membership', complete with the info on the back incase people selling the space forget.
- And Jake lent us his projector, which he later donated to the space.
Other people helped too (if you're name is not here then that's just because we didn't keep records), so thank you all!