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A letter arrived today from a not-so-secret admirer, thanks @neil for the love and appreciation!

#birkenhead #birkenhack #christmas #weeknotes

the inside contents of a letter from decoded.legal sitting atop a digital synthesizer, the contents read "To everyone at Birkenhack, Happy Hackmas! This is repeated in morse code below.

a letter from decoded.legal sitting on top of a digital synthesizer

https://agenda.birkenhack.org/event/linux-install-party

Ever wanted to install Linux on your machine but never had the time or any friends to help you out? Join us as we explore what Linux has to offer, together. Learn from other users or share your knowledge with those who need it!

#birkenhead #birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin

A poster for the Linux Install Party event at Birkenhack, it features tux the penguin in the bottom right corner and was made almost entirely in the Tux paint program, and glows with a synthwave aura about it. The top has the words "Bring your laptop" and the bottom "Linux is good actually".

Sunday, Jul 27, 02:00 PM-04:00 PM

#plasticplaygroup #birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin

https://agenda.birkenhack.org/event/plastic-playgroup

A bunch of a5 plastic art created from scrap plastic materials a the Plastic Playgroup

A plastic sign that says "Birkenhack", made of old bubblewrap and plastic trash , displayed behind a jellyfish constructed of similar waste plastic

The sun has set in #Birkenhead, it's time to start hacking on some projects

#birkenheadisthenewberlin #birkenhack #weeknotes

Two Birkenhackers successfully made a 32x32 LED panel work with #wled on a #esp32 on Tinker Night last Wednesday. Hopefully we can increase the size of the array on the next Tinker Night!

We even used our Macintosh LCIII connected to the internet, to search how to wire it up. Since this machine is not powerful enough to display ads, we were able to work without distraction.

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#weeknotes
#macintosh

Two birkenhackers pointing at the 32x32 LED Pixel panel sitting on a table, gpredict is plotting satellites on a TV in the background

two birkenhackers wiring up the 32x32 LED panel on a worktable

an old macintosh LCIII displaying netscape navigator, a search query has been made via frogfind.com to find an article explaining how to wire up an LED matrix

our finished 32x32 LED panel is displayed proudly on a table

A new and nameless inspector cat came to look at, and examine our working environment at #birkenhack, do you think she likes it?

#birkenheadisthenewberlin #weeknotes #caturday #bringyourcattoworkday #catsofmastodon #cats

hackspace cat in background, foreground is a digital synthesizer hardware project

hackspace cat perusing the floor of birkenhack, a what hackers yearn 2025 poster can be seen on the white wall in the background

Completely random and impromptu #NixOS hack session at Birkenhack yesterday

#birkenheadisthenewberlin #birkenhack #weeknotes

4 Birkenhack members shocked by the photographer shouting "cheese", they are all turned to face the camera with varying degrees of shock

Are you with us?

#hackinbirkenhead #birkenhead #birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin #backinbirkenhead

a badge stating "I'm hackin' birkenhead" adorned on my shirt, originally it said "backin' birkenhead", but it makes more sense now that the b is replaced with a h

We got our receipt printer working #birkenhack

a birkenhack themed receipt, featuring many strange items such as beans on toast

Working on getting an Apple IIgs netbooting via #airtalk and #netatalk tonight at #birkenhack, smells like jlcpcb

#macintosh #weeknotes

A new max7219 digit display running #esphome has been programmed in the space, must add more pixels

#birkenheadisthenewberlin #birkenhack

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Birkenhackers Julian and Andy have been trying out #SlimeVR full body tracking in #vrchat

#weeknotes #birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin

https://chaos.social/@birkenhack/114479598651930219

What is she hacking on? Wrong answers only.

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Poppy wearing her headset and smiling in front of the Break Make Innovate sign at Birkenhack

Birkenhackers Julian and Andy have been trying out #SlimeVR full body tracking in #vrchat

#weeknotes #birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin

Andy and Julian standing wearing their VR headsets in Birkenhack

Julian standing, wearing 7 Slime VR trackers on his legs, hips and arms

Birkenhackers Andy and Julian sharing and collaborating on new Arcitype and Arcitype v2 triangulated milling machine designs. Andy has designed it in #VR and is comparing it to the pre-existing v1 design using pass through mode on his VR headset.

#Birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin #weeknotes #cnc

Julian standing next to the Arcitype milling machine, comparing it to version 2 in VR

Julian and Andy looking at blueprints of a machine design

Arcitype version 2 with screen door safety juxtaposed against real version 1 machine using VR passthrough

An old blueprint of a machine design Andy was gifted years ago

Birkenhacker Paul cracking open an Asante Ethernet to Localtalk bridge, not every day you get to smell the 80s

#birkenhack #birkenheadisthenewberlin #weeknotes
#macintosh

Our #wirralmakefest #plastic #upcycling workshop at #birkenhack is going well with lots of people learning how to make better use of their scraps!

#birkenheadisthenewberlin #weeknotes

people gathered around the plastic workshop table with plastic scraps strewn about atop it

a view of the birkenhack space with plastic workshop crowd gathered

a view from outside birkenhack with doors wide open, showing wirral makefest crew and attendees of plastic workshop posing for camera

an overhead view of plastics strewn about atop workshop table

Birkenhackers powering up our Apple IIGS late for #Marchintosh, we needed to use a projector since it was the only thing lying around supporting 15kHz VGA signals.

On a sidenote, we've been using a OnePlus 6 running #nixos as our web browsing and research machine.

#birkenhack #weeknotes