Jamm Labs

Phaser is an Open Source project which makes it easier to make online games using JavaScript. This toolkit is a create way to learn and to teach web coding. As part of Mick Chesterman’s PhD, there is a FLOSS Manuals explaining how to get starting making a game with Phaser 2. A great starting point for learners young and old to learn how to code games, web projects and coding in general.

Let’s compute like it’s 1999! The Green and Pleasant Computer Computer Club is a community programme that helps people explore a slower, lighter, and more independent way of using computers. The club draws on Marshall McLuhan’s idea that the medium is the message and treats the early web and email era as a useful template. We focus on practices that predate attention harvesting feeds and AI driven filtering, while reviving the strengths of simple publishing and direct communication. Alongside practical skills, the club supports mental health self care through calmer, more intentional digital habits and an ethical approach to technology.

This MakeCode Arcade manual introduces a flexible approach to learning game making through the 3M model (Missions, Maps and Methods), developed through practice and shared through research. It supports creative, accessible, and learner-led coding.

Scavenger Labs have started start a new space for making, repairing and inventing. We have been awarded Town Council grant funding to establish a community workshop located in Todmorden Community College. Following the success of the pre-covid monthly Repair Café , Mick Chesterman of Scavenger Labs decided more could be done to create a long-term space for people to make, create and repair, as well as provide a home for like-minded community focused projects.

Making the Family Fixit Campaign with Ferney Lee School. A group of campaigners, artists and educators came together with the schoolchildren and staff at the school to create an environmental campaign to reduce waste. This report describes what we did and what was valuable about the processes we used. It is aimed at other educators who may want to take inspiration from our activities and perhaps reuse them in their own way. The report covers the three main phases of the project