57North Hacklab - projects

57_north_id

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-11T22:06:12+00:00

57North ID 57North ID combines an LDAP server with a user management portal and a CAS IdP to become a single, centralised point for user identity within 57North. All 57North services should authenticate against it, which they can do in a handful of ways:

air_quality_monitor

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:17:15+00:00

Air Quality Monitor An Air Particulate Monitor based on the design from the Aberdeen air quality project has a website where you should find information and contact about the wider project, this is an arcive of some information related to the sensor kit, not particularly structured

alford

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-10-05T15:53:26+00:00

Alford Alford is the HP Microserver in the hacklab. IP Address: 172.23.152.7 File Storage Our shared files and files for pimpd live on Alford - Connect to it using AnonFTP and upload to your hearts' content. Alternatively, use nfs to mount alford.57north.org.uk:/usr/filestore/Music

band_saw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-01T16:06:31+00:00

Band Saw Location * On the right Hazards * Sharp blade. The blade is sharp. * Sawdust. The kit should be well ventilated when in use. Details It has clearance to cut up to around 8cm in depth. Current State In place TODO * Make a frame for holding items at 90 degrees

elgoo_neptune_4_max

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:12:07+00:00

Elgoo Neptune 4 Max Following on from New 3D Printer, November 2025 we bought a Elgoo Neptune 4 max. Elgoo Neptune 4 max * * £285 * 420 × 420 × 480 mm Build Volume * Maximum Acceleration 8,000 mm/s² * Filament Diameter 1.75 mm * 500 mm/s Max Speed * Filament Compatibility: PLA / TPU / PETG / ABS / ASA / Nylon

finzean

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:27:39+00:00

Finzean Finzean is one of our core servers. Services Port Service Purpose 22 sshd SSH 25 exim4 mail 80,443 apache2 web 53, 953 named DNS 389 slapd LDAP 12000 nodejs ? Websites Website Purpose hub hackhub ID SSO Service Services Hosted on Finzean

garioch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:22:05+00:00

Garioch Garioch is one of our core servers. Services Port Service Purpose 22 sshd SSH 25 postfix mail 53, 953 named DNS 3306 mysqld MySQL for ? Websites Website Purpose www Main Website git cgit for git lists Mailing Lists

giant_robot_arm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-10T16:40:44+00:00

Giant Robot Arm Some notes on the Microbot Alpha II (or 'Teachmover') robot arm. Electronics The base of the arm contains one PCB, marked “Microbot Inc. Alpha Motor Drive Assy: 10131 Rev A” (serial 636). It contains 12 single-phase stepper drivers (a combination of RIFA and ST PBL3717 ICs), as well as two LM339N quad comparator ICs.

git

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-07T20:48:23+00:00

Git Backing against the 57North ID LDAP database for SSH public keys, git.57north.org.uk provides simple git repository hosting. At present, all 57North ID holders have access to this - once HackHub is integrated with 57North ID, this will be restricted to members.

hackercat

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-07T20:48:23+00:00

Hackercat hackercat is a artificial intelligence Cat like being that is omnipresent in the IRC channel, based on Cardinal. Usage You can fetch the available commands with .help . 22:10 <@irl> .help 22:10 < hackercat> Loaded commands: help, info, youtube, addnote,

hackerdeenbot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-07T20:48:23+00:00

HackerdeenBot HackerdeenBot is the 57North IRC bot, built by Ormiret with contributions from others. It is written in Clojure. HackerdeenBot uses data provided by the SpaceAPI endpoint and can be configured to use any conformant SpaceAPI endpoint. HackerdeenBot is distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.

hackhub

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:29:07+00:00

Hackhub Hackhub is our member database and lives on Finzean. It is very closely integrated with 57North ID and both need to be running. Hackhub code is hosted at Github. Hibby's work in progress attempt to set up hackhub on a server Requirements Some form of OS (Debian stable):

hackyleds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:31:49+00:00

HackyLEDs HackyLEDs was/is LED lights with homemade controllers that were kept in the upper floor of engage_space Location * 2x installed and in use in the ceiling; one flood and one strip light. * 2x stored unused under the left-side desk in the social room; one flood and one strip light.

home_assistant

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-14T10:13:58+00:00

Home Assistant Home Assistant just really ties the place together. Hosting Home Assistant is a VM on Alford. It also hosts a mosquitto server on port 1883. It's running unauthenticated as I'm a madlad. How to communicate with HASS Visit either http://control.57north.org.uk http://172.23.152.8:8123. Username & pass is not for public consumption yet, I'll get round to that in the future.

ipi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:09:23+00:00

iPi The availability of small cheap (~£10) screen components for the Raspberry Pi is a great solution looking for a problem. It's called an iPi, because it's like a iMac, er, sort of. Hardware The screen is ok, at 480×320 it has a 3:2 aspect ratio and 165ppi. The viewing angles are not really close to current mobile phone standards, but are ok. The best docs about the screen seem to be on the LCD Wiki at

laser_cutter

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-15T21:39:02+00:00

Laser Cutter Location * Next to the 3D Printers Hazards * Fumes from lased materials. The kit should be well ventilated when in use. * High intensity laser light. The laser should not be viewed with the naked eye when in operation. * Heat.

led_ping_pong_pong

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-07T21:52:16+00:00

LED Ping Pong Pong We were going to create a pong game, that could use an array of LEDs as a screen. Rob made an awesome LED array. [300px] And some code for it The code is living in though it's not finished yet. Notes from IRC... actually that reminds me, andygasman: I

lulzbot_mini_3d_printer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-24T16:29:30+00:00

LulzBot Mini 3D Printer About the Space's LulzBot Mini 3D Printer [left| LulzBot Mini, Source: lulzbot.com] Our printer is a Lulzbot Mini. The lulzbot is connected to power and a laptop. There are printed instructions located to the side of the printer and new users are recommended to read these before using the printer. These are also available online.

mail

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:27:55+00:00

Mail An accurate depiction of emailing the hacklab Accept mail for 57North domains and the mailing lists. Runs on Ythan. /etc/aliases has things to point contact addresses at addresses for the people handling them. Run newaliases after editing this. Mailing lists can be managed with the commands in /usr/lib/mailman/bin

network

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-14T11:13:43+00:00

Network The 57North Hacklab Network will provide all the necessary components to connect our hackers to the public Internet using both IPv4 and IPv6. Network Components Router The router is at router.hl.57north.net.uk. IPv4: 172.23.152.254. IPv6: 2a11:f2c0:fc00::1.

new_3d_printer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-23T14:56:13+00:00

New 3D Printer, November 2025 We've been talking about getting a new 3d printer. This is a wiki page to store ideas, thoughts, views and stuff. Hopefully we can decide and maybe pick up a deal on the chosen one in the black Friday 2025 sales. ----------

other_3d_printers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-23T12:14:16+00:00

Other 3D printers owned by the space The following printers have either been built by members on behalf of 57North, or have been received as donations. Details are listed below. Unless otherwise stated, the kit described here is stowed in the space, on the built wall unit near the power utility cupboard.

partitioning_furniture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:32:03+00:00

Partitioning Furniture We are keen to partition off space in the Kettock Lodge space, this project, or series of projects is to address that. We will use probably more than one of these solutions to partition off the 57N part of the space. First discussed in Jan or Feb 2020.

pillar_drill

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-30T09:40:05+00:00

deleted moved to tools:pillar_drill

pimpd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-10-05T15:52:49+00:00

PiMPD Music in the space is controlled by a VM on Alford running MPD. hibby is responsible for this project. It used to live on a Pi, hence the name. The address for the Pi MPD is 'pimpd.57north.org.uk' or '172.23.152.9' Controlling the Music You can connect to the player using the webpage interface or via an MPD client. Clients for some architectures are listed below:

rad_robot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-12-06T12:03:38+00:00

RAD Robot There is a Robot, a Toymax RAD from 1998, which is missing a controller (49Mhz). It could be a project someone to work on. Some maybe useful links... * * * * project dormant electronics

shop

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:26:16+00:00

Shop What is the Shop? The shop is where the foods, drinks and other treats live. The shop is currently in Beta(tm) and feedback/comments are welcome. Shout at . The shop uses RevBank. We keep a 57North specific codebase at which can be accessed if you are in space.

spacekeys

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:23:47+00:00

Spacekeys [A (probably outdated) snapshot of the 57North web-of-trust] Spacekeys is a small project by irl to visualise the 57North web-of-trust for OpenPGP keys. It uses sig2dot and graphviz to produce the visualisations. Remember that you should not trust Spacekeys for key discovery, you should always check that you have a trust path from your key via trusted people. There is

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-07T20:48:23+00:00

Projects The hackerspace and the members are defined by the little projects we undertake! Here you can find a list of these projects undertaken by members of 57North Hacklab. Adding a Project Create a page called projects:yourproject by searching for it and finding the link within

stem_project_ideas

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:07:47+00:00

Stem Project Ideas This is a page for STEM project ideas, things we can do as workshops or at events like MayFest, TechFest, IET open doors day and such like. This is a place for everything from raw ideas to completed projects. It was created after a mailing list thread, see

stickers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-17T15:02:41+00:00

Stickers Stickers are awesome, everyone loves stickers :) See also Branding. Places to get stickers made * * * * Off-the-shelf stickers * * *

website

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:31:20+00:00

Website Our website is a project really. The code lives at and the ReadMe has a bunch of useful info on it. The website is hosted on Ythan. Hibby would like to use github CI to push new changes to the server direct. infrastructure active website ythan

wiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:29:51+00:00

The Wiki The 57North Hacklab wiki runs on ythan. This wiki is available for all members of 57North Hacklab to share whatever content they wish to share with the wider community. The wiki is based on dokuwiki and has been configured with features that are useful to the hackerspace, e.g. documentation of member

ythan

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-07T13:28:55+00:00

Ythan Ythan is our replacement for Garioch, and is our core web/mail server. It is the hub for 57north.org.uk, lists.57north.org.uk and wiki.57north.org.uk irl would like it to be deployed via ansible so config files are in the open. Services Port Service