Had a great day out yesterday at Birmingham NEC, geeking out over digital fabrication tools! Had a drool over Trotec's laser cutters, Applelec's LED light sheets & AXYZ International's twin head CNC milling machines! Great research into pricing and machine specifications for the Maker Lab plans! Exciting stuff :)

Great evening last night spreading the word about Maker Lab and networking with creative, tech and business-minded people based in Bristol. Generated some great ideas and laid the foundations for city-wide collaboration.

The Laser House received it's first official post today with the arrival of our business cards! Pretty happy with them too :)

Had the BEST day learning how to programme the Arduino to create basic animatronics with a sensor-operated motor. Given me so many ideas for interactive projects!

It's all happening for The Laser House this week! The laser cutter has arrived safely today with the help of robotics students Sam and Ali, and Ali's brother who kindly drove it up from London in his van. Also had great feedback on some product design ideas in a meeting this morning. Not long now before I can get making!

Great day completing the Dedicated User Workshop on the laser cutters at UWE. Can't wait to get cracking on making my design commission from KWMC!

Great trip to the open evening at Bristol Hackspace - lots of talk about ideas for research, training and future collaborations surrounding our Maker Lab proposal!

Just had a great meeting with Kieran, Sarah and Luisa at the Fabrication Centre at UWE's School of Creative Arts at Bower Ashton Campus. Dedicated User workshop booked and everything is on track for me using their laser cutters to start developing some designs! Excited is not the word!

I took a trip to go and see Neil down at Bristol Design Forge, a bespoke laser cutting service near the city centre, to pick his brains about all things laser cutting and get some tips for the launch of my own laser cutting business The Laser House in Knowle West! Can't wait to start the workshop programme and get everyone involved with making things!