A workshop, a bench, a bring-and-fix.
For makers, menders, coders & curious folk on the windward edge of England.
We are a loose confederation of woodworkers, electronics builders, software people, machinists, retired engineers, students and the merely curious — meeting on the last Saturday of the month with too many extension leads and not enough biscuits. We build things. We break things. We help one another get unstuck.
The second NDTC gathering at the Puffing Billy: household resilience after storm Austen, a future maker-space, Neil’s Nixie clocks and Patrick’s OS experiments.
Bench joinery, lathe work, light fabrication. Repairing furniture, building jigs, turning bowls, and the occasional ambitious dovetail. Tools shared, swarf shared more.
From breadboard to PCB. Bring something that doesn't work yet. Members contribute scope time, hot-air rework, and patience.
Microcontroller workshops, Linux on tiny things, Rust for the brave, MicroPython for the rest. We talk about LLMs, sometimes.
Enclosures, brackets, broken-thing replacements. Bring a CAD file or a sketch on the back of an envelope; we'll make it real.
Homelab show-and-tell. Proxmox, Tailscale, mesh networking, self-hosted everything. The cloud is just somebody else's bench.
The collection corner. Z80s, BBC Micros, Psion organisers, Nixie tubes. We restore them, document them, and occasionally turn them on.
Our monthly social at the Puffing Billy: ramble chats, show-and-tell and edge of the seat excitement. All welcome.
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The Puffing Billy Cafe, EX38 8JD, on the last Saturday of the month. We start at 2pm. Beginners are warmly welcome — we were all beginners once, and most of us still are at something.
If you can't make it in person, join our mailing list (north-devon-technology-club@groups.io) or drop in on the club bulletin board at chat.northdevontech.org. Both equally tolerant of half-formed questions.
