Brighton’s Hackspace

Build Brighton is a Hackspace, a communal workshop where like-minded people can geek out about electronics, technology, crafts, engineering… even food hacking.Learn more →

Photo by Andrew Sleigh, used with permission.

The Build Brighton Hackspace doesn’t make a profit. All our income goes on rent and equipment, which is why we charge a membership fee. We’re run by volunteers. Join Us! →

Photo by Barnoid, used with permission.

Get in touch! We’re a friendly bunch, and you can contact us via Twitter, Facebook, IRC, email, our google-group and even a “tel-e-phone”. Contact details →

Photo by Seb Lee-Delisle, used with permission.

News

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    After several months of recovering from organising the last event, and another few of getting together to discuss the next one, we’re finally ready to announce a date for Brighton Mini Maker Faire 2012 – and to start taking applications … Continue reading

  • WeenyPOV on Scalextric car April 6, 2012

    Mikepea at BuildBrighton is building a Scalextric setup with a difference! One of the many features we're thinking about is a POV display on the roof of a car which will plot out a graphic image as the car moved round the track. The first test was to s...

  • April: A Miniature Update April 4, 2012

    The last year has been crazy. Over the last nine months I started and new job at Codeface, attended a Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Manchester, and began studying for an MSc in Intelligent Systems. I’ve studied, used, and learned an incredible amoun...

  • My First Lisp Program March 6, 2012

    Today I wrote my first CL program on the bus. It’ll take me a while to get used to common-lisp-mode in emacs. ;; Summing function (defun sum (list) (reduce #'+ list)) ;; Calculate the mean (defun mean (list) (/ (sum list) (length list...

  • Arduinome March 3, 2012

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