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[Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/@glenncarstenspeters) ## Annual General Meeting: On the 30th of October 2021 the Hackspace held its annual general meeting, a great opportunity for members and trustees …

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[Photo by Isaac Smith on Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/@isaacmsmith) ## Membership: The Hackspace is now well on the road to recovery, and since our last update on the 29th of September 2021, we've …

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[Photo by Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/@adamsky1973) ## The Impact: From the initial outbreak in early 2020, the Hackspace has seen a steady decline in member activity, with our doors remaining …

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Monday was one of *those* days. ### Optical Flow Mike and I discussed an issue which plagued us last year - motion feedback. We had absolutely no way of getting …

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Well ... we didn't get a guaranteed place in [PiWars 2019](https://piwars.org/2019-competition/). This is obviously a bitter blow. We have been offered a reserve place in case teams drop out. Clearly …

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So ... The plan today was to download a design for a Mecanum wheel, tweek it, and then print it. Unfortunately: > "The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men Gang …

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# Design Meeting Today was our second PiWars 2019 meeting. It was very well attended, so well attended that I didn't have enough work to distribute today. Thankfully discussion lead …

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# PiWars 2019 Yesterday we held our first PiWars 2019 meeting. Many many things were discussed including our past performances at PiWars 2017 and 2018, some of the problems we …

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## Moving Rooms: We have just this week changed rooms - we're still in the same location, at the Community Support Centre in Maidstone, but we now reside in the …

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# PiWars 2018: We are very pleased to announce that we have been accepted for a second year running, into the Pi Wars Raspberry Pi robotics competition for April 2018. …

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Well PiWars is upon us (as the robot was when it tried to mount a box in testing) We can do no more. Parts of the robot work, parts do …

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After many hours of printing, assembly, disassembly, reassembly, and general hard work, we now have a robot! We have had some teething issues. The combination of the motors and the …

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Hi I'm Ian's daughter and I'm nearly 9 years old. I enjoyed screwing the robot together, it was so much fun! But it took a very long time. There were …

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As a Hackspace without a space (although since beginning the PiWars project we have located a space and will hopefully be moving in at the start of March), our options …

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The days to PiWars keep on counting down, and decisions must be made. Which motors to select, heavy fast, heavy powerful, or the smaller lighter less powerful motors... Well, testing …

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## Choices, Choices! How to design a robot when starting from a blank page? Do we have tracks or wheels? Do we have 2 wheels, 4 wheels, or 6? How …

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## PiWars The competition that every self-respecting Raspberry Pi robotics enthusiast wants to attend. The objective - Build a robot, controlled by a Raspberry Pi, that must complete several challenges. …