The Lab is Moving!
Some exciting news.. After around a year of searching and quite a bit of persistence Edinburgh Hacklab is moving to a new much bigger space at Summerhall. The former site of University of Edinburgh Vet School, Summerhall is on the corner of The Meadows. Used extensively as a Festival venue in August, there is a year round program of events and exhibitions including the Mini Maker Faire. We’ll be neighbours with Techcube and expect to get to know some of the tenants.
We have the use of 3 rooms enabling some of the nosier and messy bits of equipment to have a space of their own and room for some dedicated project storage. As the photos show the rooms are much as they are when the university moved out so we have plenty of sinks (3 in total) and lots of sockets!
The main room – G1
“The dirty room” – G2
We are doing most of the moving this weekend so the first open night at Summerhall will be on Tuesday 22nd January from 7pm. Stay tuned over the coming weeks for further updates and events.
Thanks to all those involved, especially Mike and Al, in making this happen.
Robotics on Sunday
Robotics blogger, Per Sjoborg, from flexibilityenvelope, is coming to visit us on Sunday the 20th. He is bringing the coolest pieces of consumer modular technology yet, Modrobotic’s Cubelets. I’ll be down from 2pm onwards if you would like to join us, or do any other kind of robotic hacking.
Tom
Eyeborg goes mainstream
One of the cooler projects undertaken at the Hacklab has just come to fruition. Martin was working under the microscope for some time to create a masterpiece of minaturization: a wireless camera for insertion into a prosthetic eye (look Mom, no PCB!).
The project seems to have caught the eye of the media, starting with Sky news this morning, then the Metro in London and Edinburgh. and now even TechCrunch!
Edinburgh Hacklab documentary
Earlier this year, Edinburgh film student Kelly Jamieson visited the lab to make a documentary. Now it’s on YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
- See Aaron’s payphone being investigated!
- Experience Martin philosophising on hackerspaces!
- Watch TomH tinker with the CNC!
It’s all here in Hacklab: A documentary!
Gareth visits Dallas Makerspace
Dallas Makerspace have some blog coverage of Gareth’s visit to their space:
Gareth Edwards of Edinburgh Hacklab and Dorkbot Alba in Scotland is our latest international visiting hacker. He dropped by the Dallas Makerspace on Sunday (7 Nov) to check out our newly painted warehouse area and help us pull the plastic tarps off all our gear. Edinburgh Hacklab and Dorkbot have done projects similar to some of our own including a really cool computer controlled pipe organ that puts our puny vacuum reed organ to shame.
Another mention on the Guardian Edinburgh blog
Michael McLeod has given us another mention on the Guardian Edinburgh blog:
The StartupCafe blog reports that Friday’s Edinburgh Hacklab opening was packed with people and ideas, including a homemade quadrocopter, an LED top hat and robot cupcakes.
Thanks, Michael!
StartupCafe reviews the opening night
StartupCafe have reviewed our Grand Opening on Friday:
We checked out the Hacklab opening on Friday. The place was so packed at 19:30 that we could hardly get in the door—quite a feat for a co-working venue that’s only been a month in the making.
Guardian Edinburgh covers the opening of the Hacklab
The Guardian Edinburgh blog has a short piece on the opening of the Hacklab:
Hackers have been known to be anything from journalists to computer crackers in recent years. But a new bunch of self-proclaimed ‘geeks with a dream’ in Edinburgh are looking to give the term a more positive and creative reputation.
StartupCafe announce the Hacklab Grand Opening
StartupCafe have kindly announced our grand opening!
TechMeetup Hackerspace talk
On 8th September 2010, Ollie Saunders gave a presentation on hackerspaces to TechMeetup.
TM Talks-Ollie Saunders talks about Hackerspaces from TechMeetup on Vimeo.
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Hacklab status: OPEN!
