Latest News and Features on Jamm Labs

A FLOSS Manuals for Phaser (JavaScript) Online Game Making

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Call out to launch the Retro / Eco Computer Club

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

MakeCode Arcade Game Making - FLOSS Manuals documentation

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 at Iron People

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Scavenger Labs contributed to The Iron People programme led by Northern Broadsides through workshops and public outputs in Todmorden. At Todmorden College, Mick Chesterman ran a campaign workshop with students exploring environmental themes, particularly flooding. Steve Summers recorded audio contributions from participants, capturing local stories and campaign ideas developed during the sessions.

Physical Computing course created for Manchester Met Rise programme

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We’re really pleased to share a self-study course developed through a collaboration between Scavenger Labs and RISE at Manchester Metropolitan University. This course grew out of hands-on workshops and creative making sessions we’ve been running for years, and also from a moment of change. During lockdown, we adapted our space at Scavenger Labs for filming, working with Steve from Noisy Toys and with Greta supporting the setup. What emerged was not just a filmed course, but a reflection on how our practice translates into digital formats.

The launche of Todmorden Makery - a community workshop for making and fixing

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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