Machines Room

Are you a teacher who makes? We're hosting a meet up for makers, educators and techies this month, sign up!

Prototyped here at Machines Room!

This year we made a bespoke rollercoaster workshop for Merlin Entertainment. Let's do the same for your xmas party! https://machinesroom.co.uk/your-xmas-part y-here/

There are 3 days left to apply to join cohort at Machines Room (join.cohort.at) Read an interview here with Nat Hunter to find out more: rhttp://mailchi.mp/ce23563e2656/spring-wo rkshops-news-and-membership-offer-191914 5?e=73bee9dec0

Still some tickets left for our awesome events. Last week's one was super interesting. Come along!

Tomorrow Night at Machines Room!
Kickstarter and Machines Room are collaborating on a series of three panels, alongside the new Cohort programme, that highlight the importance of building values into maker-led businesses, to create cultural value alongside capital value.
Insecure Futures: Privacy, Security and Connected Devices: Wed 1st November at Machines Room, E2
... Connected devices allow startups to access the lives and homes of their users in unprecedented ways. But this broad access comes with great responsibility — or at least it should. How can startups building connected products consider more fundamental security and privacy needs at the earliest stages of development?
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Incorporating for positive impact

Still some places for this event tonight. Come along if you're interested in how we can design better businesses.

Kickstarter and Machines Room are collaborating on a series of three panels, alongside the new Cohort programme, that highlight the importance of building values into maker-led businesses, to create cultural value alongside capital value.
Ethical Electronics: Wed 8th November at Machines Room, E2
Many maker-led startups are building products that integrate hardware and software. There is mounting global pressure to move beyond the throwaway economy, but how can small hardware... and IoT companies think about these issues when they also have huge financial and time pressures?
Find out more about this event and sign up here: https://buff.ly/2guPdNv
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VIDEO: A New Normal: The London Knitters
This film centres on Kniterate, the start up company that has been resident at Machines Room for the last couple of years. The film shows how London based knitters Layla Chelache and Valentina Karellas currently work, and how their businesses will be transformed once they start using their Kniterate machines.

Kickstarter and Machines Room are collaborating on a series of three panels, alongside the new Cohort programme, that highlight the importance of building values into maker-led businesses, to create cultural value alongside capital value.
Insecure Futures: Privacy, Security and Connected Devices: Wed 1st November at Machines Room, E2
Connected devices allow startups to access the lives and homes of their users in unprecedented ways. But this broad access comes with great resp...onsibility — or at least it should. How can startups building connected products consider more fundamental security and privacy needs at the earliest stages of development?
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Film maker Paul Wyatt was commissioned by the Distributed Everything Lab at The Royal College of Art to make two films about companies which are pioneering new ways of manufacturing today. These companies are not just one-off items for individuals, but are establishing a ‘new normal’ where manufacturing is redistributed and mass means ‘by the masses’ not en-masse.
The films were premiered at our exhibition“A New Normal” at Machines Room as part of London Design Festival 2017.
You can view them both here:

Kickstarter and Machines Room are collaborating on a series of three panels, alongside the new Cohort programme, that highlight the importance of building values into maker-led businesses, to create cultural value alongside capital value.
Incorporating for Positive Impact: Wed 25th October at Machines Room, E2
Incorporating as a business is one of the first steps in founding a startup. This session will offer both practical guidance for startups, and theoretical discussion fo...r those interested in how incorporation has influenced society more broadly.
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Video: A New Normal: The Smile Plastics
This film looks at the work of London and Wales based Smile Plastics, a plastic recycled materials company which our neighbours and partners at Opendesk have often used to make furniture from.

Talks with Kickstarter
Intentional Things, Building values into maker-led businesses.
The world is changing fast, but things – products and hardware – are still the only way that software technologies can access us humans. And until recently, the manufacturing of things was primarily reserved for those with access to large factories. Today, new tools and infrastructures, from desktop fabrication tools to crowdfunding, allow independent product businesses to flourish. Individu...al designers, makers, nonprofits, and startups with bold ideas can fund and deliver products that may not have found support through conventional methods.
So if industrial-era manufacturing has been disrupted, why not dismantle some of the problems that went with it – to create more intentional, ethical product businesses?
Kickstarter and Machines Room are collaborating on a series of three panels, alongside the new Cohort programme, that highlight the importance of building values into maker-led businesses, to create cultural value alongside capital value.
Incorporating for Positive Impact, Wednesday 25th October, 18.30 Insecure Futures: Privacy, Security and Connected Devices, Wednesday 1st November, 18.30 Ethical Electronics, Wednesday 8th November, 18.30
Doors open 18.00, talk starts 18.30, drinks and networking until 21.00
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Machines Room is looking for the next cohort of maker businesses to join our new 6 month pre-incubator and professional development program and become part of our vibrant community. As a member of cohort, you will be provided with the support, knowledge, inspiration and connections you need to go from an idea or prototype towards a functional business.
We'll guide you through the initial stages of starting a company, with sessions on how to shape your business to reflect your values and aspirations so that it is sustainable and delivers triple bottom line returns on investment. We also have a fully equipped in-house Fab Lab for product prototyping.
Learn more:

Still some tickets for this - we're going to be talking about how to start a company so that it reflects your personal values and what you want to do in the world. The way that you incorporate really changes the trajectory of your business and makes life easier for you too.

Apply for Cohort http://join.cohort.at/ by 9th November and join the likes of these amazing micro businesses: @batchworks_ , @kobblefurniture, @rossatkin, @HackOnWheels, @animaro_design, @Kniterate, @DoItKits

Application deadline for Cohort, our brand new incubator programme, is 9th November! Apply here: http://join.cohort.at/

A @Regrann from @yoyo_ldn - All the pieces for Matt's awesome folding lamps ready to be assembled over the this week during #londondesignfestival at @machinesroom #LDF17

the exhibition was brilliant,fresh and inspiring!really glad I came across Aristideis Antonas work in London!

the exhibition was brilliant,fresh and inspiring!really glad I came across Aristideis Antonas work in London!