Originally published at: https://www.shmakerspace.org/2017/02/06/__trashed-5/
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I’ll be going tonight, hopefully working on a ‘slinky antenna’ as well as working with Node-RED for some interesting hardware stuff. 
I’ve got some laser cutting tasks to do tonight, and might finally discuss furance building…
So sadly my slinkies didn’t arrive, so I busied myself with Node-RED instead. If you haven’t looked at it, I definitely recommend it - it’s a really nice framework for any of your IoT projects. I’m hoping we can set up a Node-RED framework for the space, including it’s access control system.
For example, last night I tweeted with the @sh_makerspace twitter and could get an LED to light up. Small beginnings, but very cool
@gingebot was working on his laser cut SHM lightbox, adding an Arduino Nano to it for controlling the LEDs.
@Takumo showed up and laser cut some angle guides for the bench grinder. @stochastic_forest, as always it seems, was making some upgrades to the 3D printer - adding a replacement X-axis gear, and stopping the belt from constantly falling off.