Blog: MakeSpace
14-9-21
Welcome back members! Here’s how to visit the workshop…
Plan your visit: information and guidance for members returning to our workshop. More
01-8-20
Useful Links
The Institute of Making team is taking a break in August but we have compiled some useful links that might be helpful, if you are wanting to make something specific over the summer. More
26-5-16
The Great Grammatizator
Our Scrambled Messaging Machine competition has been announced, and Alexandra Bridarolli’s winning idea, The Great Grammatizator is now under way in the Makespace! More
04-2-16
Member Profile: Anna Ploszajski
Anna made a Rubens’ Tube as part of her demonstration kit for the Science Show-Off show at the Bloomsbury Theatre. A Rubens’ Tube is a pipe with holes all along the top and a rubber membrane stretched over one end, which is flled with propane and lit like an elongated gas burner. More
09-11-15
Member Profile: Daniel Black
Daniel’s expertise is in watchmaking, and he got involved in a major making project supported by our Summer Studentship scheme: to advance understanding of the Antikithera mechanism – an ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine – through physical models. More
11-9-15
Member profile: Dafne Morgado
In the Makespace Dafne has been making force sensors and elongation/bending sensors, which attach to the replica human hands and finger joints she has been making as part of our Wearable Assistive Materials project. More
22-6-15
Glass and bees
This week, glassblower and beekeeper John Cowley came over to advise on our lampworking masterclass setup. More
10-4-15
Member Profile: Wiktor Kidziak
The first in a series of interviews with our members, Architecture student Wiktor Kidziak talks about what he's been making. More
27-1-15
Making in progress
Our new members' project blog is a window into the world of the MakeSpace. More
16-12-14
The Great Robot Egg Race
Back in October, during Robots Week, we launched The Great Robot Egg Race. The challenge was to build a moving robot that could pick up an egg and travel a short distance before putting it down in a frying pan, without smashing it! The robot needed to travel over a variety of different terrains/surfaces, straddle a cube, go under a limbo pole, negotiate a sideways slope and navigate a slalom course to finally deliver the fresh, un-smashed egg into the pan. More
31-12-13
Antimicrobial Materials
Director of Making Martin Conreen will be in residence this month, developing a new research project. More
11-11-13
UCLoo Festival Make-a-Thon
Meet the Makers. Free event 19 Nov: come and hear three eco toilet designers discuss their design process and eco sanitation insights. More
02-10-13
Dapple - Jeremy Bentham’s Stick
It’s wood week at the Institute of Making, and to coincide with our stick dressing masterclass today we’ll be proudly displaying UCL’s spiritual father Jeremy Bentham’s beloved walking stick Dapple. More
27-9-13
The Darwin Making Challenge
The plaster bust of Charles Darwin’s head from UCL's Grant Museum has been digitally 3D scanned – transmutated from plaster into data. What could YOU do with it? Will you mould him from jelly? Cast a hologram? Mill him from wood? More
18-9-13
LEGO2NANO - The LEGO microscope challenge
In one week, can 32 young scientists and designers from China and the UK develop a new type of low-cost scanning probe microscope, powerful enough to study the nano world? More
13-8-13
LEGO2NANO Summer School - The Great Egg Race
LEGO2NANO - An international nanotechnology making challenge, 1–7 September 2013, Beijing, China More
18-3-13
Become a Member
Current UCL students or staff? Come and join the Institute of Making! Not at UCL? Come along to one of our open days or special events - Join the mailing list to be among the first to know what's in store. More
25-1-13
The Grand Public Opening
The Institute of Making invites you to explore our new MakeSpace and Materials Library at UCL on Saturday 16 March, between 1-5pm. More
17-12-12
Science Club
As part of a new six-part science series presented by Dara O Briain, Mark Miodownik makes and takes things apart, from comets to DNA cocktails, bikes to fridges, exploring how materials and engineering shape our world. More
07-12-12
Perseids (long exposure): a summer studentship
First year undergraduate Slade sculpture student Jana Bercelova used her Institute of Making summer studentship to conduct an investigation into the materiality of weaving. More
21-11-03
Paid Internships at the Institute of Making
Fancy joining our team at the Institute of Making as an Intern? Applications are now open for UCL students and staff. More