I’m planning a youth workshop and would like to find out what is possible without upsetting anyone 
Is it Ok for me to book the Electronics area on a Saturday afternoon for 3-4 hours?
Can I close the door to the metal area for the duration from Kitchen and textile/3D printer area?
Anyone can still come in as per normal just through the main door.
Thanks
Dorine
To clarify…
The room is called the Clean room
The electronics area is the bench along the wall.
The big table is known as the Main Table.
The doors to both the textiles/3D space and the metal/laser space are automatically closed.
I often run courses/inductions that use the whole Main Table and I give notice that electronics is still available, but will have restricted access.
In my opinion, if the space is used for maker-ish things and the occupation of the space is noted well in advance on the booking calendar, then there shouldn’t be a problem.
You’ll need to watch out for regular events that use the same space, and are often only added to the calendar quite close to the time.
Electronics night is a Thursday- so that’s not an issue
Ok fab booked the space on the calendar for the 25th 12-3pm
Dorine, do you have shutter access?
If yes, then you need to add your discourse name as the host on the calendar entry.
If not, then you will need a person with shutter access to put their name there and be available to open the space.
Looks like an interesting workshop. I’m keen to participate with my daughter.
Tip: If you make the announcement post a wiki, then people book by editing your post and adding their names.
This is much easier to keep track of that scrolling through all the posts.
If you want to limit the numbers, then add 1. 2. 3. etc at the end of the post for people to fill in.
How can I assist with preparation?
I can help with laser cutting acrylic shapes.
If you don’t have enough ipads, I could ask my boss if I can borrow some (about 5).
There is a projector and screen in the space.
I can (probably) get an adapter so that you can display the ipad on the big screen to train/demonstrate.
No I don’t have shutter access but @TracyD does and attending both events and yes please on the iPads and on site laser cutting 
I have done - but the Wednesday booking is until 6pm and I will not be able to stay that long. I know its probably academic as others will be in the space by then - by I can’t officially host for the whole time.
As a thought: What would be really cool is for the kids to get to see a laser cutter in action so:
They could be given a choice of a shape
See it added to illustrator, exported and taken to the laser cutter.
Then see the sheet material being loaded and experience their choice being cut in front of them.
Already that’s a powerful agency experience that would then be re enforce with adding the sublimation of their art into the acrylic type thing.
From a workflow perspective it also truncates the session into manageable groups of 4 kids.
What do you think @Brendon_Hatcher doable?
I was also thinking of ways to batch the process to that we can divide into groups.
Rotating bases are great when the production workflow isn’t linear.
However, I don’t know a lot (OK, anything) about the sublimation process, so I don’t know how this would work.
Base: Shape design
We have 10 laptops in the space with Inkscape on.
We can have one base to design your shape (from a limited range of options).
Base: Cut shape
See the laser in action
Base: Design your pattern
On the iPad
Is printing separate?
Is heat pressing separate?
How do we integrate the pattern with the acrylic shape during the design phase?
Happy to meet up to thrash this out.
So excited!
Fancy doing a jitsi video call to discus?
We can do a group chat for all people involved?
I’m free for 1 hour between 12 and 2 weekdays, most evenings after 6, and most of the weekend.
Are any of the 10 laptops ok at having Illustrator installed on them?
On the day we will have access to 2 adobe accounts mine and Sabrina’s (my daughter age 16)
Neither of us have ever used Inkscape so we would need to stick to Illustrator and Procreate 
Sabrina will evaporate if she cant use what she knows
In the past I just log in to all the iPads as me and that gives access to free Procreate on all the iPad for an event.
Ive also been told I can install Illustrator and Photoshop on the 3D printer computers in the Clean room so that gives us access in the clean room to said tool.
The laptops are mostly I5 processors with 8GB of RAM.
They are not admin locked, so the default user is able to install anything.
You are welcome to try.
Make a note of the number on the laptop lid so you can find it again!
If you want to scale beyond 2 computers, we can use Inkscape and I’ll support the users.
You’ll then need to find someone else to do the laser bit!