[Swansea Hackspace] Publicity update 01 (Need bottle caps)

[djdavies83]

Just a brief (ok, maybe it is a little on the long side) update my my attempts and plans for Hackspace.


I've been in contact with the
What's On in Swansea Magazine
(Links to the current edition are at the end of this email)

Unfortunately the deadline for May/June edition has passed. It's not all doom and gloom, I've been asked for a press release as they may be able to feature us in a future edition, is there an existing press release? While I'm happy to create one I would need some help as I've not done one before.

If we are able to pre plan some events for the July/August period we should hopefully be able to get into the free listing. 

While dropping my little one off at Gendros Primary yesterday I dropped into the office with about 15 A4 sized flyers (My setup wouldn't let me print 2 per page, if someone has time to help me out and make a single PDF that has two A5 that would be great), they seamed happy enough to put some around the school and classes, I'll look into contacting other schools on Monday. 

I wasn't able to make it into town this moring, on my way to Cardiff to sit a CSCS exam. I'll try getting some Market stalls (Tom Whitehouse & Tool stall for example, places kinda hacking related, ideas welcome) I'll also try the Swansea visitor centre and maybe waterfront museum to display the flyer.

I plan on contacting as many local physical and online publications as possible over the next few days.

On to the bottle caps...

We all go through a fair amount of milk so we should all be recycling, we have blue top full fat for our daughter and green top for ourselves, that's only two colours, and why I'm asking for other colours.

Pretty much all milk bottle tops are made out of HDPE, high density polyethylene. I've watched a few video recently that shows how to recycle HDPE at home as a material for DIY projects, it's also a great material for CNC milling once it's been processed, I may even have a go at doing a night on the subject.

How To Recycle HDPE Bottle Lids Into Flawless Fla…: http://youtu.be/rpXq6mnbCus

As shown in the video and the attached image it's the type with "2" in the symbol.




The colours I need to collect for a hackspace project are red and gold, you can probably see where I'm going with these colours.

I've only seen gold on fizzy drinks bottles (attached image), I'm not about to buy these for the tops, not my taste but if any of you guys are buying these or happen to find a cap on the ground that's ace, orange or yellow caps could be recycled for the outer edge of the logo.

That's me about done on these topics for now, thanks for reading and sorry I couldn't make it along today, would he been great the learn some more CNC and chat about publicity.

All the best, Dave.


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