East Essex Hackspace

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East Essex Hackspace is a charity hackerspace in Hawkwell, Essex, UK: a community-run workshop where people come to share tools and knowledge.

A view of the Hackspace on a sunny June day. The Council have installed new bins right by the path.
A picture of the Hackspace with the door open. The grass is greening up nicely and the tree in full leaf.
A picture of the Hackspace on a warm but windy day. The leaves are coming back on the trees now.
A close view of the Hackspace with one of our flags planted outside.
A view of the Hackspace on a sunny spring day.
A view of the Hackspace with a big orange tractor towing a mower attachment in the right of the frame.
A view of the Hackspace on a dull March day.
A view of the Hackspace on a bright March day. The trees are just starting to come back to life but the field is still very muddy.
Some Hackspace clutter set out on tables. There's an "arcade machine" running RetroPie, an Antweight fighting robot arena with several bots, a 3D printer, our traffic light game and various random objects made at the Hackspace.
A piece of leather with the name "Iain" cut out of it. The leather and the resulting letters are on the tacky backing sheet used by the Cricut.
A picture of the Hackspace on a slightly dull day.
A 'teardrop' shaped piece of mixed burr wood and resin. You can see sparkling whorls withing the resin.
Stuart turning the "egg" on the lathe. He is wearing an impressive positive pressure face mask.
A view of the Hackspace on a sunny day.
The Macbook with replaced screen booting for the first time. The protective film and stickers are still on the screen.
A circular piece of glass art showing tall blades of grass with a stylised dragonfly and butterflies above. Nestled in the grass is a ladybird.
Two people balancing a MacBook so they can undo fasteners and remove tiny ribbon cables.
A view of the Hackspace on an afternoon where the first signs of the coming spring abound. The field is very muddy.
The storefront of the Raspberry Pi store which is minimalistic white & wood a bit like an Apple store.
A view of the Hackspace on a sunny day.
A tall clothes rail with garment bags hanging.
A spot washing machine sat on a bench.
A view of the edge connector on an HP server power supply. There is a resistor and wire soldered to the smaller contacts and a pair of crocodile clips are connected to the large power pads, driving a 12V light bulb.
A BC250 case in 'galaxy black' 3D printer filament with fire red laser cut acrylic side panels in a hex pattern.
A piece of plastic film stuck to the side of a pint glass.
An etched glass block style awards trophy with the crest of Rochford District Council and showing the Hackspace as "Volunteer group of the year".
A view of the twin rear disks and gearboxes for the Hacky Racer
A short video showing a bench power supply connected to an ODrive. The two motors spin shortly after switch on.
A view of the Hackspace on a full day. The field is very muddy.
A welding bench that stands on casters tucked underneath another bench. The welding bench carries a large Parweld welded.
A view of the outside of the Hackspace
A disassembled hoverboard hub motor on a table.
The partially assembled luggage trolley sitting on a table.
The BC250 case sat on a low cupboard with its new acrylic sides. In the background is a Voron 3D printer.
A piece of worked glass that looks like a flower bud.
A view of the Hackspace on a cold grey day.
Cutting ply on the laser cutter.
A partial Hackspace logo being worked on in the InkStitch interface.
The tidied workbench
An LED ceiling panel screwed to the bottom of a shelf with two handmade wooden brackets.
A picture of the 3D print lab, which is a long narrow room. There are two Bambu Lab printers in the foreground, rows of shelves covered in filament down ones side and more printers at the far end.
A picture of the Hackspace on a bright winter's day.
A power supply with many wires connected being cradled in somebody's lap while they desolder some of them.
The top of the BC250 with the heatsink partially 'peeled' to reveal the fins and allow air to be blown down onto it.
The BC250 sat on a desk with a fan perched on top and various USB leads plugged in.
A view of the Hackspace on a grey rainy day.
Two silver motors on a bench spinning their output shafts. In the background is a motor controller PCB and bench power supply.
A picture of the Hackspace building, which is a single storey bunker like affair. The single tree out front has lost all its leaves.