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Artifactory Projects

Project Name Description Participants Status
Sound Baffle Acoustic absorption panel for studio, home or office skot Workshop
Gantry Crane Gantry crane bot moves stuff. Using three winches control by Arduinos running Brett's code housed in laser cut acrylic bdowning
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jmuirhead
davo
Under construction
Gig Box A road case containing essential promotion items and repair kit for shows and events daniel and others gathering
Self Promotion A road case containing demonstration and (at cost) sale items for markets and booths to promote the space davo also gathering
airengine Engine that runs on compressed air davo Design and prototyping
woodcomputer Binary calculations with wood and marbles davo Design and prototyping, v7
TheSwitch For your Igor to throw bdowning
skot
jmuirhead
Under construction
The Stratosphere Experiment Pictures from space jmuirhead Under construction
RotoBot CNC Mill 4-Axis CNC Milling Machine atrophy Under Construction
Steadicam Steadicam, mk1 made from Al, to allow for the use of video cameras with less shakes jmuirhead Under construction
Bliptronic Arduinome Combining a cheap 8×8 LED/button matrix with an Arduino, to create a Input/Output Monome-style interface. sam Almost there!
Cyber KatzenKlavier 21st century take on an 18th Century idea to use Kittens in a Klavier skot Planning
Analog Synthesizers First of several in progress analog audio synthesizers is a PaIA Fatman dave In Progress
Steampunk Router Steampunk wifi internet router! lordmortis In Planning
The Gadget An all around handy-dandy gizmo for all your mad science needs! atrophy
bdowning
In development
Race Car Simulator / Motion Simulator A moving cockpit that moves around to simulate g forces and gravity drifta303 Planning
Kit-O-Tron A system of dispenser modules for kit components, both electronic and mechanical atrophy
bdowning
zignig
Planning
Giant exoskeleton Strap on limbs to become a giant robot! caspian Arm usable but clumsy
Car Adapters For Devices Mount your iPad/Galaxy Tab/iPhone etc. In your car lordmortis Beta Produced!
Electric Car Electric Car lordmortis Hand Waving!
ArtiDisco Artifactory “Club” lighting system lordmortis Hand Waving!
MAME Arcade Cabinet A future version of retro gaming factotum Under construction
Compact Amplifier Mini, compact and powerful amplifier elena
Gregor the Brave
PCB printed, adding components and testing / hardware
Networked Number Display Repurposing an old 9 digit, 7 segement display to be a generic networkable number display! bdowning
lordmortis
In Production
New Networked Number Display Building a replacement, smarter multisegment display cheshire
lordmortis
Planning
Genetic Infantry Dog Tags 3D Printed “BioChip” Dog Tags as seen in 2000AD's Rogue Trooper. 3D Printed models in OpenSCAD designed to be stuck to random items cheshire Modeling stage
MDF Stag Head A Laser cut wall ornament made of MDF Jason Kongchouy design
Airbus A320 cockpit A full-size working replica Airbus A320 cockpit Hypnorm design
Project Name Description Participants Status
Project Name Description Participants Status
Polyplasmic Arcophone Musical spark gap instrument. bdowning
atrophy
jmuirhead
skot
Version 2!
Mechanically Advantageous Cyclical Abomination for De-shelling Acquired Macadamia with Inappropriate Abruptness A 4-person pedal-powered macadamia nut-processing vehicle jenna with SPATULA Evolving
Decorative Panels Spray paint artists visiting during events put to good use skot
AudioVault
Ongoing
Project Name Description Participants Status
Son of Swarf-o-Mat (Small CNC Router) Son of Swarf-o-mat - a computer controlled engraver / router skot Under Construction
Sand Casting / Forge / Oil Burner Plans to build a waste oil powered forge to melt aluminium and pour sand casts factotum Under construction
Filament Extruder The purpose of this project is to build an extruder capable of producing filament usable in RepRap-type 3D printers from the raw granular form easily available from manufacturers letsburn00
atrophy
Arm Waving
Concrete Benchtops Some modern surfaces factotum First test pours complete
Space/Club Management System All in one Club / Organization / Hackerspace management system lordmortis Specification
Illuminated Street Signage LED illuminated, solar powered street sign as current signage is invisible in the dark cheshire Blueprints
Council Notification Large, “boring” signage for our rezoning cheshire Design
Courtyard Garden and Timer Garden beds with vegetables, decoratives and maybe some citrus factotum Growing
Open Door Controller The apparatus that lets you in to the building! bdowning
atrophy
southen
Functional Prototype (Mission Critical)
airline Air hose around the space providing compressed air output across the space angus Phase One complete
VendingMachine Snacktastic 24/7 supply of components and nibbles elwell mitch Onsite and Broken
Member kiosk Self-Service status kiosk elwell Drawing Board
Space Status Panel Enhanced doorbot elwell Drawing Board
Laser Cutter Hour Meter Interface Laser Cutter Hour Meter interface steve Prototype
Open Label Maker Label Printer with a web interface, for the quick and easy creation of professional looking labels. vincent Budget Approval
Project Name Description Participants Status
Reticulation Timer Kit Open Hardware & Software advanced reticulation timer and monitoring system kit. bdowning
atrophy
Planning
WS2811-SPI converter A tiny speck of analogue trickery to drive the WS2811 LED drivers from SPI. bdowning Local Beta
Basic Arduino Starter Kit Chinese Arduino clone and assorted basic electronics components (and some fruit!) aimed at beginners attending Arduino U. Includes eboxen Doug B December 2014
Basic Arduino Starter Kit V2.0 Chinese Arduino clone, hobby servo, “ping” module and assorted basic electronics components aimed at beginners attending Arduino U. Doug B Nearly ready
Project Name Description Participants Status
Hoverboard Bright pink hover platform for the amusement of children (aged 5-500) timbo
Doug
Penguin Bookcase Penguin themed bookcase for Antarctic books skot
Jacob's Ladder Bzzzzt high voltage sparks bdowning
skot
Luakit WebKit-GTK based micro-browser framework configured by Lua. mason.larobina Working & Successful!
RepRap Replicating Rapid Prototyper, Fused Filament Deposition 3D Printer letsburn00
atrophy
Others
Built
Ebike Converting a Suzuki GN250 to electrical motive power cas Built
Project Name Description Participants Status
Frabjous Sculpture sculpture made from 30 identical perspex pieces on the laser cutter. davo complete
Gearbug_v1 planetary gear sample assembled from parts cut on the laser cutter. davo complete
marblemachine like a mini Rube Goldberg device, from a Thingiverse plan davo complete
flatpackdice easy distribute d6 packaged in a flat pack davo complete
birdcage easy distribute flat pack bird cage davo complete
Project Name Description Participants Status
Sonic Bollard A theremin-bollard for the City skot, Meg, Tim February 2015
Barnstorming Mobile Barnstorming prop-plane for wingtop tethered tennis, now hanging from roof of space skot August 2011
Steam Ostrich A pseudo-steam-powered Ostrich Vehicle skot Completed July 2011
The Mole A Steampunk Tunnelling Machine prop the size of a small bus skot April 2012
Giant Robot Our Techno-Tiki Overlord jenna and Others Built
Project Name Description Participants Status
Signage Outdoor signage to mark the doorway factotum
bdowning
atrophy
zignig
Swarf-o-Mat (CNC Router) Computer controlled milling of wood / metal / plastic skot Nov 2009
MïllDřéd (CNC Mill) Computer-controlled milling of metal skot
atrophy
Others
Bar d'Factory The Artifactory Bar and Social Space factotum May 2011
Project Name Description Participants Status
Coil Driver Kit A kit designed to drive an automotive ignition coil for the purposes of playing music with a spark gap. bdowning
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skot
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