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I mentioned in a previous post how I wanted to get more people doing social things that related to hacking, like going to the Micromouse event last Saturday. I thought it’d be a great opportunity for people to see what else is available to the community and to link different micro communities that would…
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Since February I have been running a hackerspace network called fizzPOP. The aim of this is to eventually acquire a permanent space for people to come and share ideas and collaborate on their projects. THe benefits of having a space include actually getting out of the house and, having a space with materials that…
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Last Saturday I went down to London to attend OpenLab 5: Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening at Cafe OTO, Dalston. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night.…
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Whilst Nikki and Pete have been hacking their toys and gadgets to make all manner of noises I’ve gone the soldering-free option by making sweet noise on my laptop in Pure:Data. This originally started in the hack session at the Linux Emporium as an attempt to make a sort of theme tune for the…
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Saturday was the second meeting for the Birmingham Hack Space which made an impromptu relocation to Scruffy Murphy’s. The meet was graced by the presence of Jonty and Russ, founders of the London Hack Space who were more than happy to share their experiences so far in setting up their own hackspace. I think…
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Last Saturday we had our very first Hackspace meeting. As we don’t yet have a building of our own it was more to sort out how to get funding, what we want to do and lots of smaller things. What I really like about the technological community is how kind and useful everyone is.…
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I tend not to make any resolutions as I believe that learning and achievement should be something that’s life-long, not constrained to a time period. Despite this I’ve decided on my reading list for 2009+. It generally consists of books I haven’t read yet but does include some that I want to revisit with…
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On Friday 29th November I was invited to the first Make and Do Party over at The Edge, which was hosted by Friction Arts. There were about 20 artists present and there was a strong emphasis on just having fun creating art! I think there’s definite potential to increase collaboration amongst artists, possibly through…
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the beardos, originally uploaded by yaxu. A picture from OpenLab in London where they “make art and music using open source/free software”