Maker Night at the Art & Design Academy

On Wednesday we rebooted the Liverpool Hackspace with the first of what will become a monthly meet-up at LJMU’s Art & Design Academy - Maker Night.

Fifteen of us gathered in the workshop, surrounded by all manner of interesting tools and machines, and within sight of the digital fab room. As it was the first Maker Night, we had a couple of short talks to introduce what we mean by “making”. Andy Goodwin was ill and so couldn’t make it along to give his talk on fabbing, so it fell to me to give both talks. I’ve embedded the slides here in case anyone wants to see them:

After the talks things broke up into a number of activities. Some people had a tour of the digital fabbing lab; others had a play with the Arduino and the ARDX beginners kits that I’d taken along; and some just worked on their own projects.

Future events will be a bit more hands-on - you’ll be able to work on your own project if you like, but we’ll also be aiming to organise a led workshop too (things like building an Arduino from scratch, or making a solar chime). We’ll also have some ARDX kits in case anyone wants to have a play around, so you don’t need any electronics or programming experience to come along.

Maker Night will be the third Wednesday of every month, at the Art & Design Academy on Duckinfield Street. 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start.

UPDATE: It has been pointed out that I’d got the day wrong - it’ll be the 3rd Wednesday of the month, not Thursday as I’d originally written.