It’s autumn and time for our community project, Precious Plastic to wake up again after its summer pause. We have a shredder, of sorts, we can melt and we have an injection moulder, so it’s time to work out what we want to make and how to get there. Join […] more »
Ever wanted to paint with light in three dimensions? Or go to the bottom of the ocean without getting wet? Well, for one night only you can. We are hosting a demo of the HTC Vive VR headset on Wednesday 14th September from 18.30 to 20.00. Come down to this […] more »
Well, our boat was almost too good – one of our Makers in Residence, Ross Andrews, used the Shopbot to cleverly recreate a punt originally designed in the 1940s. After a week of sleepless nights piecing the craft together with the help of Mark, he emerged on Saturday morning covered […] more »
Ahoy mehearties! We are proud to be participating in the inaugural Maker Raft Race 2016 this Saturday. Please come see the awesome boat that Ross is building, cheer us on, and join in the fun! All details in the attached flyer… Hope to see you there. more »
Last night Machines Room was packed with people talking Hardware. CRL, London’s newest Hardware Accelerator, held an evening inviting applications to their second cohort of hardware startups. There was a really interesting discussion chaired by Mat Hunter with Alex Peet, CRL’s ex-Dyson Workshop Manager, and Matt Webb, ex Berg mentor […] more »
Join us for the next Precious Plastic meetup, where we will set in motion the next phase of sourcing and building our very own plastic recycling system! Check out the inspiration, get involved and follow our progress! 1st June 6:30pm Free! more »
A bit of a #makermile success story this week. Working with Helen from East London Printmakers up the road we have printed 200 of our new flyer/pamphlets designed by Phillip Raiford Johnson. They look brilliant! come and grab one they are full of the next two months events and workshops. […] more »
We are building Dave Hakkens’ Precious Plastic machines! It’s a fantastic suite of 4 machines that start with shredding and then move through extrusion, injection and compression. The first stage is to build the machines – this is what they will look like… we hope! Then the next stage is […] more »
We’re going to start writing weeknotes.. observing and documenting all the amazing things (as well as some of the mundane ones) that happen in a week at Machines Room On Wednesday night we had what seemed like hundreds of people here for Oscar Lhermitte’s Moon launch – the most accurate […] more »