Come to our weekly drop in. Mondays 6-8pm.
Thanks to the fantastic bike volunteers – John, Will, Jon, Peter and Simon – we now offer weekly sessions. And the best bit is that you can just turn up. No need to book.
These sessions are also informal workshops where you can ask about how to maintain your bike – a great source of information.
Jamm Labs Projects in Development Jamm Labs is our intergenerational learning programme. We are developing media, electronics, art, practical skills, and experimental community learning projects.
The Todmorden Retro Computer Computer Club is a community programme that helps people explore a slower, lighter, and more independent way of using computers. The club draws on Marshall McLuhan’s idea that the medium is the message and treats the early web and email era as a useful template. We focus on practices that predate attention harvesting feeds and AI driven filtering, while reviving the strengths of simple publishing and direct communication.
Project status: Delivery Ready. More work needed on documentation.
Building LED powered puppets and mini-stage lighting to put on a show. These sessions mix craft skills, art practices, storytelling and some elements of programming LED lights. The process can be open in scope or themed around stories concerning environmental or social issues.
See here for details of a pilot project at the Makery workshop in Todmorden
Repairing Digital Devices: While we have some capacity to physically repair digital devices, especially older laptops, we are limited in what we can do for a couple of reasons. First, they are so small you often need a specialist microscope for electronics repair. Second, if it’s your main device phone/ computer, it’s best to get it repair by a professional who is doing that work all the time. It’s less risky and it supports the local repair economy. We suggest Tim’s Tech Shack in Tod Market or DOT Communications (computers only).
We take peoples old laptops and get them ready for new homes at the Makery.
To do that we need to wipe the hard drives and put on a new operating systems. The easiest way to do that is to put a linux operating system on instead of windows. It also avoids the ongoing problem of laptops being slow and getting viruses.
