Donated Stuff for Hacking is our ever-changing collection of items that anyone can use in their projects, however they see fit.

This stuff is stored in the following places:

• On the Big Hack Rack on your left as you enter the Main Room.
• On the Materials Hack Rack, immediately on your right as you enter the Main Room (behind the door).
• In the following places in the Electronics Area:
  • The component drawers.
  • In boxes under the benches
  • On the cable reel rack.
• On the screws and fixings rack in the Wood Shop.

This stuff is one of the things that makes Hackspace special, so we encourage everyone to donate useful quality surplus stuff for others to hack.

Please remember: Donating things for others to hack is as an opportunity to support other members’ projects by giving them cool and useful stuff. Do not treat it as an opportunity to get rid of your rubbish!

We encourage donations of:

• Sorted common parts, hardware, components, and materials.
• Weird or interesting stuff.

We don't want:

• Junk, cheap consumer electronics, scrap materials, etc.
• Tubs of unsorted parts, hardware, or components.
• Stuff we already have lots of.
• Printers. Seriously, no printers.

When you donate something hackable, you should store it in one of the areas listed above. These areas are partly organised into labelled boxes, drawers, and bins, so try and put your donation in the right place, if that place exists.

If there is no room for your donation, or it doesn't fit on the shelves, please take it away again. You can offer it to other members via the forum instead.

Never leave donations anywhere else in the space, especially the Woodshop or Metalshop

Sometimes members wish to donate a tool to the hackspace for other members to use. Donating a tool for general use requires prior approval through our proposals process. Do not 'donate' your surplus tools to Hackspace without raising a proposal first to see if we actually want them.