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❗There is a road closure following a road traffic collision on the A1 at junction 6 southbound by #WelwynGarden City this morning and drivers are asked to find an alternative route.
The road is likely to be closed for some time.
Thank you for your patience.
The main target of today’s expedition was this, however - an excavated Roman bathhouse in a corrugated iron bunker under the A1(M) near Welwyn. And this is a place with which I have a special connection… (thread)
There were some rough calculations for the size of the screen. In order for people to be able to play the GameBoy Monumental there would need to be a controller. One was designed by slicing the top off a cad model and then installing buttons / controls and a control wire.
ALT A photograph of one of the hackspace whiteboards with preliminary sketches of the panels, how they might be arranged and a prototype of the sketch of the support frame.
ALT A cad model of the hand controller unit shell. It looks like the bottom half of a GameBoy which has been roughly cut at an angle of about 45 degrees just above the " " joypad button up towards the top left. The cut "face" has a computer generated surface that looks a bit like a stone has fractured in to a rough faceted surface.
Construction work started on making the outer shell and buttons.
ALT The assembly takes shape. This image is in the hackspace workshop area. There are lot of benches and tools in the background. In the foreground is the Bosch strut aluminium spar frame. The bottom hafl, up to where the screen will be installed is cald in white panels. There is a cutout for the joypad and the large black joupad is patrialliy installed. on the blue tiled floor, to the bottom right of the fram and panels the two round buttons sit on the floor ready to be installed.
ALT The joypad button, which is about 500mm square, and the two round buttons sit on an old cardboard box in a garage and are painted in grey primer. A paintbrush loaded with grey paint sits to one side. In the background is an assortment of bicycles, trugs and other domestic garage contents.
🌌 For Meganne Christian, her chemical engineering degree was the beginning of a journey that took her on research expeditions to Antarctica, in zero gravity and finally, to becoming a European Space Agency reserve astronaut. Read her story in #IngeniaMagingenia.org.uk/articles/qa-m…
ALT A woman in a blue ESA boilersuit floats inside a parabolic flight plane, with a number of other trainee astronauts in similar outfits behind her
🍴🥄 Businesses must no longer supply, sell or offer certain single-use plastic items in England.
🗑 If you are a business that uses Plastic or Polystyrene more information can be found here: gov.uk/guidance/single-use-p…#PlasticFreeJuly
Last months event was BBB's 50th! How time has flown.
We just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's crewed, competed or spectated at our events, it means the world and we absolutely love doing them!
GIVEAWAY:
Got the BM235 back from that confused CAN bus customer. Works fine of course.
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I'll give it to a youngster that replaies with a photo of their lab and tells me why they need it. Most public Likes plays a role, so vote for the youngster you think should get it.