<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">How are you at Lego Sophia? That's the level of the assembly instructions"</span></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I know it might shock some people here but I never assembled lego kit on my own following instructions. I rather prefer to improvise :) So yeah following instructions like this is not in my skillset...</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Matt, I understand 3D printing is a project by itself and there is a fair amount of stuff to learn but what I am trying to say is that having a less complicated machine to deal with and only learn the skills to print (navigating the software, slicing etc) rather than the skills to make the machine work plus the skills to print would be less intimidating for a novice, as you said easier approachable. I hope this makes sense? </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Sophia</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-03-12 11:23 GMT+00:00 Tim Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eclipse@sucs.org" target="_blank">eclipse@sucs.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I worry that anything that describes itself as a kit doesn't meet
the fundamental brief of "Tool not Project", when was the last
time you had to put the plug on your new drill, or glue the handle
on your new screwdriver?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<p>Tim<br>
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<div class="m_-5223743851060922112moz-cite-prefix">On 12/03/2018 11:19, Alex Duffield
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<div dir="auto">How are you at Lego Sophia? That's the level of
the assembly instructions</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Mar 2018 11:07 a.m., "Sophia
Komninou" <<a href="mailto:sophia.komninou@gmail.com" target="_blank">sophia.komninou@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">I would like to offer my opinion as someone
with no prior experience with 3D printers.
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<div>I would like to stay for a second to the " <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">kit
more likely as it's a hackspace after all" and remind
to whoever will get more involved with the decision
making that hackspace has a diverse membership and not
just computer savvy members. It is also my
understanding that this diversity is one of the points
we are trying to promote as a "place for </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>all</b></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">
people who like to make stuff". Further, I remember
Matt saying at the AGM that what they did in Reading
was to "make things as simple as possible" in order to
engage more people and create a community. Therefore,
how a kit is going to achieve that (unless I guess
after assembled works very very simply). </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">As
someone who is not as savvy with the traditional
hackspace activities, I would personally want to see a
non-intimidating looking 3D printer to be encouraged
to try using it. </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I
guess I do get a bit cranky with things like that but
I thought I should give my perspective regardless...</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Sophia</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2018-03-12 9:09 GMT+00:00 Neil
Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil@aurinia.co.uk" target="_blank">neil@aurinia.co.uk</a>></span>:<br>
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On 12/03/18 01:14, Alex Duffield wrote:<br>
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Best bet is hands on experience, I can bring it
tomorrow if you like, bringing my signal generator
so taking a bus anyway<br>
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Why don't you just bring it in anyway? It wouldn't be
the first time someone has brought a 3d printer in to
show others. Even if we weren't looking at getting a
new one it would be interesting for others to see. It
is a cool piece of kit.<span class="m_-5223743851060922112m_-482613697231454275HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Neil</font></span>
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