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East Essex Hackspace

@eehackspace.bsky.social

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East Essex Hackspace is a charity hackerspace in Hawkwell, Essex, UK: a community-run workshop where people come to share tools and knowledge.

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East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Nov 29

We provide metal, wood and 3D printing workshop facilities, a computer lab with an electronics workbench and a dedicated laser cutting room. There is also social/communal space with A/V equipment for meetings, lectures and workshops.

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East Essex Hackspace.

East Essex Hackspace is a charity hackerspace in Hawkwell, Essex: a community-run workshop where people come to share tools and knowledge.

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East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · 7d

Repair Café today at the Hackspace until 13:00.

A picture of the outside of the Hackspace on a bright autumnal day. We have our flag up outside.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hmmm. Ooops. Laser lens and mirrors aren't well.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 13

@prusa3d.com would appreciate it if someone could dig out our email we sent about being blocked from printables. It's not massively convenient being a hackspace that can't access a 3D printing repository :( Pretty please?

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East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 9

EEH is looking to host a hackathon at their space in Hawkwell, Essex on the 12th July from 10am making a LoRaWAN enabled bat identifer device. Signup is here forms.gle/dQTK19T9FtNV... we would love to see you. The discord is here: discord.gg/qQUVUdKBbS. #hackathon #batdetector #loRaWAN #hackspace

LoRaBAT Hackathon

Join us for a hands-on Hackathon focused on developing an open-source LoRaWAN-enabled bat detector for ecological monitoring. Over the weekend, teams will design hardware, develop on-device firmware, ...

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East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

Another popular item: table lamps.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

One of our members brought a project, this glass decoration they've made that needed the mount threading.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

Soldering the watering can.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

This petrol strimmer wasn't starting due to an HT lead fault but now it's going.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

The spout stay on this watering can has detached making the spout fragile. Thin to weld and it's galvanised so we're going to try soldering it.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

Ah, fan heaters another repair you see a lot.

A fan heater upturned and about to be dismantled.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

This pressure washer failed with no obvious fault so might need a little investigation.

A bright yellow Karcher pressure washer.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

Broken portable vacuum cleaners always seem to be a Repair Café staple, here's today's first.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

This clock has a broken battery box that needs sorting.

The insides of a wooden clock with the connections being checked with a multimeter.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

We're going to try and fill the damage in this boat propeller with weld and grind it back. It's taken quite a smack.

A boat propeller with very obvious damage where a chunk is missing.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

Automatic cat flap where the mechanism has failed being checked over. One of the internal parts has broken and we're 3D printing a replacement.

A large white plastic box with complicated internals.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

A record deck getting a fixing.

A record deck propped up on its side on a table. Somebody is dismantling the internals with a screwdriver.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

Child's ride on with a simple switch fault fixed.

A red "Drift Kart" toy being carried by two people.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Jun 8

We're doing a Repair Café today at the Hackspace 10:00-14:00.

A view of the outside of the Hackspace with our flag up.

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East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · May 13

It's Tuesday so it's Social Night at the #HackSpace from 19:30 tonight. Not sure who else will be down but Nick is working on some #LARP props.

A picture of the low square Hackspace building in bright sunshine. The grass on the field looks recently mowed.

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East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · May 9

We are thrilled to announce that in March, we received a micro-grant from @LoveEssexUK. This funding was awarded due to our efforts to reduce household waste in Essex. To read more about the Love Essex Fund, visit www.loveessex.org/love-essex-fund-success-stories.

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East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · May 5

We’ve got merch! 🎉 merch.eehack.space

Items take around 10 working days to produce, followed by about 5 days for dispatch. It’s all handled by a third-party service so we’re just managing the front end.

Any profits go straight back into supporting the space.

East Essex Hackspace Merch

We create amazing designs.

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Tim @talltimn.bsky.social · Apr 25

LEDs wired up, may change the resistors because it's a bit brighter than I fancied. I'm going to write the sequence procedures in first and see how it looks, but it's probably too bright to be even slightly canon.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Apr 22

Today the scary laser got a new shiny base to reduce airflow. Plan is to fully seal it with ventilation tape except for the extractor we have been building!

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Tim @talltimn.bsky.social · Apr 22

Today's project doesn't have anything to do with breaking the laws of physics.

East Essex Hackspace @eehackspace.bsky.social · Apr 22

It's Tuesday, which means it's social night at the #Hackspace tonight from 19:30. What we'll be doing in not sure but I suspect it will involve laser ablation of metal again.

A view of the Hackspace and playing field on a warm Spring day.