Hack the Space Days/8th February 2026
There will be a Hack the Space Day on Sunday 8th February 2026 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 6th December 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 | Type | 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 | Meta | |
| 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 | Creative | ||
| General Tidying, wherever you like | Cleaning | |||
| Clean Comfy Area (museum) shelves - they're quite dusty! | Comfy Area | Cleaning | ||
| Sort through large project storage | Studio | Trustees | Trusteee | |
| Vacuum dusty area | Dusty Area | Cleaning | ||
| Empty all the bins | Cleaning | |||
| PAT Testing - and labelling assets. As part of the fire risk assessment outcomes. | Electrical | |||
| Help AJ with Metalworking Downstairs (probably by handing them the thing they put down two seconds ago.) See also Hackspace_2.5/ToDo | Metalworking Downstairs | Light Lifting | ||
| Install new Kitchen water heater. | Kitchen | Tryst | Plumbing | |
Fix the Blue Room sink.
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Blue Room | Plumbing | ||
| Clean the inside of Bender in the hope that it will fix the paper jam sensor issue. | Blue Room | Aaron | Printer Poking | |
| Install Air Quality Monitoring boards. | Everywhere | Aaron | Infra | |
| Install Energy Monitoring boards. | Power Distribution | Aaron | Infra | |
| Bandsaw Day Phase II.
Move the unwanted bandsaw from Woodworking and get it setup in upstairs Metalworking, and get it commissioned. Maybe move one of the surplus ones into Woodworking if they want it. |
Metalworking | Steve | Medium Lifting, Electrical | |
| Set up LaserDisc player donated by Olivia.
(Aaron will try to remember to bring in a composite to HDMI converter) |
Comfy Area | Aaron or someone else | ||
| Clean the Spray Booth - brush loose gunk off walls & equipment (especially turntables) and hoover.
Note: We have lots of white paint if you're feeling fancy. |
Spray Booth | Ed | Cleaning | |
| make an A3 Document/paper shelf for the blueroom. | Blue Room | Richard minkley | ||
| Sort out the pallet being held together G clamps. | Workshop | Richard Minkley | ||
| Clear out the pcb etching stuff, and general area under sinks.
Note: Ferric Chloride must not be disposed over via the drain unless it has been neutralised. It will eat copper pipes. It should ideally be disposed off via a chemical treatment centre. |
Workshop | Clear out/disposal | ||
| Go through solvent cupboard and dispose of dry, empty or no longer functioning materials
Note: Much of this stuff cannot be put into the bin. Please identify someone willing to take it to the tip for proper disposal before getting everything out. |
Workshop | Clear out/disposal | ||
| Make some QR codes for commonly misused tools (e.g. band saw) pointing to a video about how to use one correctly. | Everywhere | Creative | ||
| Make wiki page for axminster horizontal bandsaw | The Internet | Paperwork | ||
| Sort through chemicals in team storage and either dispose or move to new team flammables storage | Team Storage | Clear Out | ||
| Fix the workshop door closer smashing a hole into the corridor wall | Workshop | Infrastructure | ||
| Plan / create labels for areas of members storage, e.g. "D1A2" for "Downstairs, first row, shelf A, column 2" (or however you want to do it). Not every space needs to be labelled. It can be used as an approximate address for receiving items. | Members Storage | Creative | ||
| Make a wiki page for the Dusty Area air filter (JET AFS-500).
Aaron may have got it to come on with the lights by then. |
The Internet | Paperwork | ||
| Install TIG Welder nh-tool - assuming it's working properly by then. | Metalworking Downstairs | Aaron | Infra | |
| Mount IR panel heater on Comfy Area ceiling (Speak to Aaron, see Snackspace Heaters) | Comfy Area | Infra | ||
| Mount IR quartz heater in Craft Room (Speak to Aaron, see Snackspace Heaters) | Craft Room | Infra |