[Swansea Hackspace] Quick report on Coastal Tenant Fun Day

[Gerrit Niezen]

Thanks Tim! At least now you know how/why the printer was in that state. After manning the stall for 7 hours I just didn’t have the energy to fix it.

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 10:10, Tim Clark <eclipse at sucs.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <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/658967724429877248>
>> - https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/659048556221870080 <https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/659048556221870080>
>> 
>> Some more good feedback: https://twitter.com/Kirsty_Coastal/status/658988186358689793 <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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