<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yesterday Eleri from TechHub and I represented Swansea Hackspace at the Coastal Housing Tenant Fun Day at LC2:</div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/SwanseaHack/status/658974645706735617" class="">https://twitter.com/SwanseaHack/status/658974645706735617</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 ;)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had a (Makey Makey) banana piano set up for the kids: </div><div class="">- <a href="https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/658967724429877248" class="">https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/658967724429877248</a></div><div class="">- <a href="https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/659048556221870080" class="">https://twitter.com/TechHubSwansea/status/659048556221870080</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some more good feedback: <a href="https://twitter.com/Kirsty_Coastal/status/658988186358689793" class="">https://twitter.com/Kirsty_Coastal/status/658988186358689793</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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):</div><div class="">- 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</div><div class="">- 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?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Gerrit</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>