Author: surreyalex

Dog Days at The Lab

So, as July rolls into August we are 3 days into our very public 3D printer build at O2/Telefónica, and things are coming along nicely. Many hands made light work yesterday, we had up to 4 builders from the @TheLab_uk team and being midweek, slightly fewer people were passing by to ask us about the Read More …

Be more 3D!

This week I’m based in the middle of the rather splendid corporate headquarters of  O2/Telefónica in Slough, Berkshire.  I’ve previously only visited data centres here! I’m helping Terence, Ruth and their crack creative IT R&D squad, The Lab (@thelab_uk), to build a 3D printer.  This follows some great conversations with the team at their BarCamp Berkshire event, Read More …

What I learned at BBC Broadcast Centre today…

…was that you should never, ever joke about a live demo going perfectly, because you’re using open-source hardware and software, right, so what can possibly go wrong? This was an informal talk to an audience at the Beeb’s internal Knowledge Exchange, by kind arrangement with Jamie Knight and Sam Starling of Future Media & Technology. Read More …

BarCamp Berkshire II

Today brought an amazing session of 3D printing outreach, at BarCamp Berkshire II, an ‘unconference’, hackathon and general congregation of geekery at the 02 Telefonica headquarters in Slough. I had so many great conversations with people seriously interested in 3D printing, and was able to demo my RepRap in action printing TVRRUG parts.    

MAKE: Adventures in 3D Printing at Oxford Uni

Today I visited Oxford University Computing Service, to give a talk as part of their MAKE: series of lunchtime lectures   The first iteration of ‘Nozzle-cam’, a basic webcam, stripped to its PCB and attached to the back of the X-carriage, went down very well, as did the range of objects I brought along which Read More …