[Swansea Hackspace] Quick report on Coastal Tenant Fun Day

[Tim Clark]

Great news about the Fun Day, glad to see that there was lots of interest.

When in the space yesterday evening I swapped the cable on the printer 
for one in the makey makey kits, recalibrated the z axis with the bodged 
z endstop and replaced the kapton on the bed so I could get it working 
if your careful. Still need a new cable and the bracket reprinting but 
there is now less urgency about it.

Tim

On 28/10/2015 09:25, Gerrit Niezen wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Yesterday Eleri from TechHub and I represented Swansea Hackspace at 
> the Coastal Housing Tenant Fun Day at LC2:
> https://twitter.com/SwanseaHack/status/658974645706735617
>
> There was a lot of interest, from little kids being amazed by the 3D 
> printer to members of the public (and Coastal employees) getting 
> excited about the possibilities of a hackspace. There was a 
> photographer too, so there may even be photos in the newspaper ;)
>
> We had a (Makey Makey) banana piano set up for the kids:
> - https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/658967724429877248
> - https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/659048556221870080
>
> Some more good feedback: 
> https://twitter.com/Kirsty_Coastal/status/658988186358689793
>
> I started off by printing some whistles, but once the kids figured out 
> that you can make “almost anything”, requests flooded in and a 
> mini-football, mini-pig, mini-pikachu and mini-flower got printed as well.
>
> Unfortunately the a couple of things went wrong with the 3D printer (I 
> didn’t want to move it from the space, but my alternatives didn’t work 
> out):
> - The bracket for the z-axis stop switch broke (it was cracked, but 
> moving the printer didn’t help) - I temporarily fixed it with some 
> blue tack, but we’ll need to print a new bracket
> - The orientation of the new Rumba board caused the USB cable 
> connector to weaken, which halted prints every time the table got 
> bumped - does anyone have a spare USB cable with mini-B connector?
>
> Cheers,
> Gerrit
>
>
>
>
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