Fwd: FW: News from Nottinghack!

[MARK HANCOX]

Folks

Please see below ; Nottingham Hackspace have turned their rapid prototyping resources to making PPE, several hundred sets delivered already. They have a fundraiser to source additional materials if you want to contribute :

https://www.gofundme.com/f/Nottinghack-v-COVID-19

Hope everyone's keeping well.

Take care

Mark

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From: Nottingham Hackspace <in...@nottinghack.org.uk>

Date: 07/04/2020 18:23 (GMT+00:00)

To: mhan...@yahoo.co.uk

Subject: News from Nottinghack!

Keeping you up to date with the Hackspace and its members during lockdown.

Hi MARK As we enter the third week of lockdown, we hope you are feeling ok and coping with the strange circumstances we find ourselves in. We’re here to keep you up to date with changes at the space, online projects, and ways to stay in contact throughout this difficult time.  In this week’s newsletter, we have an update on our Personal Protective Equipment project and fundraiser, tales from the #hs-bikeshed, and news about our regular Zoom meetups and workshops! Hackspace Closure As you know, the space is currently closed, with access available by request.  This is to ensure that access to the space is fair, and that we can avoid close proximity between members. Our current guidelines are here, and we will inform you of any changes as they happen: https://wiki.nottinghack.org.uk/wiki/Coronavirus_guidelines Please only request access to the space if it is essential, and follow the guidelines to stay at home. If you do need to access the space, please contact trus...@nottinghack.org.uk. COVID 19 Personal Protective Equipment Project Since the Lockdown began, Hackspace members have been working tirelessly to produce and supply PPE visors and masks to NHS workers in the city. From an initial contact from Dr M Ghandi at the Nottingham City GP Alliance, we have made and delivered over 700 laser cut and 3D printed masks so far! As well as face shields, the Hackspace is making and supplying cotton face masks too. We’ve received fantastic support from Kitronik who have donated materials, resources and expertise, as well as producing face shields themselves. Mark Goodwin was interviewed by BBC Radio Nottingham last week to talk about his 3D printed visors - you can hear  the interview here. New requests have come in from all over the county and region and we've been able to help lots of schools get involved too by sharing files and information through a members forum.   We're getting lots of requests from front line healthcare staff for face shields and we can make more as we have the equipment and our members have the expertise, but we're running out of materials and our finances as volunteers are already strained. We have created a fundraiser to support our work, so we are able to continue providing PPE wherever needed. Please share this link with your friends and family and help us help the NHS. https://www.gofundme.com/f/Nottinghack-v-COVID-19 So far, we’ve raised over £4000 with donations from over 100 people! If you’d like to get involved in the project, visit our Covid-19 wiki page to bring yourself up to speed then come say hello on Slack #covid-19-ppe. We urgently need members who can sew and have their own sewing machines to help us produce face masks! If you are able to help, please sign into Slack and join #covid-19-ppe Old Faithful gives Hackspace 8785 hours of service! Just before the lockdown Dominic Morrow and Ian Dickinson replaced the original tube in the A0 laser cutter with its replacement (purchased at the same time as the cutter). The tube had done tremendous service giving approximately 8785 hours of cutting (probably, according to calculations taken from HMS), far longer than the expected 1200-2400 hours usually associated with tubes of its type and age. As a long serving and faithful servant to the membership, it is proposed to make something of a totem of "old faithful", it'll be mounted on a plinth and there is even talk of giving it an honorary life membership! Tales from the Bikeshed Join us in Slack to chat about what you’re up to, find out about projects you can get involved with from home and check in to see how your fellow hackers are feeling. You can join slack by visiting our Slack Workspace. If you don’t have an account it’s easy to sign up and get involved. Our slack is intended for use by the members of Nottinghack. You’ll automatically be added to the #general Channel, but check out the other Channels available for more teams and projects. #hs-bikeshed is your space to share what you’ve been watching, reading and listening to during the lockdown! This Channel is a great place to share your favourite things, from Podcasts to webcams, learning resources and collaborative online projects. We’ll feature some of the best in future Newsletters! Some of our favourites this week include: Jay Foreman - Why does London Have 32 Boroughs? Comedian Jay Foreman explores the formation of London’s 32 boroughs. https://youtu.be/daeB46Z4fjs The Anthropocene Reviewed - Podcast John Green reviews facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed Tinkercad - #TinkerTogether Weekly 3D design challenges from Autodesk Tinkercad.  https://blog.tinkercad.com/ The Great Goat Invasion Goats take over the streets of Llandudno as residents stay indoors. https://youtu.be/xcDvM3PdVsc   The Canteen If you're looking for a break in the middle of the day, and a chance for a chat over a brew, join us on Zoom every weekday from 12pm-1pm. You don't have to stick around for the whole hour, just pop in and out as you please, catch up with your fellow hackers, and take a break from whatever you're doing. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/818683811?pwd=SjlzWU9tVnp2KzU0em85clJkWFI5UT09   Online Open Hack Night Join us every Wednesday from 6.30pm for our Online Open Hack Night. This is an open session with no agenda, just the opportunity to check in and meet other members. You don’t need to stay all night, but it would be great to see you all there! Our next meeting is tomorrow, the 8th April. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/302157823?pwd=ZUdFYXdGUC82bk1nN2NJUko5U3hkUT09 Meeting ID: 302 157 823 Password: 835474   Do you have a project or workshop you could share on Zoom?  We are developing an ongoing series of Zoom chats, workshops and events, and we’re looking for presenters and workshop hosts to fill our schedule! Do you have a project you could share from home? It could be a creative coding workshop, a music lesson, an online board game, a drawing challenge or anything you are passionate about! This is a great space to introduce your work to others, find collaborators and learn new things! If you have a project you’d like to share or a workshop you’d like to run, please get in touch via this form! We’re also looking for volunteers to help us programme, run and promote the events! If you’d like to get involved, visit our wiki page and get in touch! Keep up to date with our Zoom programme by following #events in Slack, and pinned posts in our Google Group.   We’ll meet again! Thanks for reading this week’s Lockdown Newsletter, we hope you enjoyed it! Let us know what you’ve been up to, what you’ve been watching or reading, and most importantly, let us know if you need any help. The more we can be here for each other during this difficult time, the more easily we can get through this. We have created a wiki page with links to support organisations and resources specific to the Coronavirus outbreak and lockdown. We will continue to update it as the situation changes and develops.  If you’d like to submit a story to the newsletter, please use this form to tell us all about it! Stay safe, and see you soon. x   Copyright © 2020 Nottingham Hackspace, All rights reserved. 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[Bernard(Home)]

Interesting articles. Thanks for forwarding.

Bernard

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[Gwen Jones]

Thanks for the article. I have offered to help make face masks. Not sure how to interact with correct people

there but have left my email address for someone to point me in the right direction. Hope I can do my little 

bit to help.

Cheers

Gwen

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[Bernard(Home)]

Sounds good. Keep us posted on how you get on.

Bernard

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