Nerd Club has a new home

There's little to report on the maker front this week;
We've been pretty well tied up with firstly moving, and secondly, finding a new workshop. It's been an arduous few days but finally things are looking a bit more positive.

This is mainly because we've secured a unit (well, ok, a cupboard) in the Llangollen Malthouse. So now we've somewhere to get making again, we're hoping to run a few workshops and build up a community to support HackLlan - the new hackspace for North Wales

Nerd Club is moving

After three fantastic years down here in Brighton, we're on the move.

Hopefully it'll only be a temporary move, but with work and family commitments, we're having to decamp for a while and move up to North Wales.

It's not all doom and gloom of course!

First up, we're looking to start a hackspace/maker group up in the mountains. As members and regular visitors to BuildBrighton, we'd love to see something similar, albeit on a slightly smaller scale (BuildBrighton have just taken over a large part of the Rodhus Art Studio and arranged the 2011 Brighton Mini MakerFaire thanks to their increasing subscriber base and growing community - it'll take us quite a while to get to that level!)

And, of course, once the move is over and we've settled into our new space (wherever that may be) we're hoping to get making, blogging and video-ing all over again. With a new bunch of nerds and geeks. 

So while it may be a bit quiet on the blog for a while, it's not an indication that nothing is going on - there'll be plenty of news, when we're back up-and-nerding in a few short days...

New website and projects

Welcome to the updated, new-for-2011 Nerd Club website!
We've learned from the old site and we're now using the excellent Blogger platform not only for our content, but for images and videos too. We had lots of interest on the old blog site, but when our own server went down, it took all the photos posted on there with it - so lots of posts didn't make much sense without illustrations to explain what was going on!

This new site is an improvement on the old: we're still going to be making cool stuff and writing about it here (including schematics and source code where appropriate) but we've also included links to a video website and even a shop, where you can buy kits of all your favourite geeky gadgets.

Things may be a little slow during these early weeks, as we spend time getting familiar with the hosting platform again, and getting things like the shopping cart integrated with the rest of the site, but don't worry - we'll soon be spouting off about all kinds of nerdy stuff on a regular basis!

In the meantime, here are some links to a couple of other blogs which ramble on about some of the other projects we're involved in:

Ben's Crazy Cube Reader Project
Homebrew Digital Drum Kit
All the latest goings on at BuildBrighton