We had a busy time last Saturday with 30 makers hacking the idea of what a wheelchair can be. #HackOnWheels is the brainchild of our Maker in Residence Rachael Wallach and the make-athon brought together wheelchair users, designers, engineers, and makers to design, develop and test the first open source […] 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 »
Craig Dunlop (//machinesroom.org/members/CraigDunlop) and Peter A. Smith (//machinesroom.org/members/PeterASmith) have spent the last month experimenting in Machines Room as part of their Maker Library One Month Residencies. Craig is Maker Librarian in WorkSpace, Cape Town, South Africa and has spent his time learning digital fabrication techniques, building a plastic shredder, renovating an old […] more »
Last week we hosted a day long workshop on Open Source Circular Economy led by Erica Purvis – people from a wide range of disciplines came together to develop practical ways of integrating the circular economy model into community spaces. Very useful for us as a makerspace which is on […] more »
Beyond the Pages: Recoded City Date: 9 June 2016 Time: 6:30PM Location: Machines Room, 45, Vyner Street, Hackney, London, E2 9DQSpeakers: Thomas Ermacora (Chair), editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Lucy Bullivant, editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Clementine Blakemore, WORKSHOP architecture Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse Petra Havelska and Igor Marko, Marko & PlacemakersBeyond the […] more »
We are very excited to be hosting Processing Playground course – come learn a really cool multi-use coding programme for anyone with a visual mind – book tickets here! more »
The Dr Bike programme, part of Life Cycle UK, is visiting Machines Room – we will be hosting an experienced mechanic who will check over bikes and make simple repairs and adjustments to ensure they are in good working order, for FREE! Bring your bike! 1st June 5-8pm 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 »
PLASTIC EXTRUSION! The very generous Tom Fox arranged the donation of a plastic extruder – an ancient retro precursor to the 3D printer! The whole kit is amazing, complete with plastic moulds and barrels of plastic beads to melt down (like old-fashioned PLA!). Next steps are to figure out how […] more »