Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Dave
No, I wasn't aware of this however it could be very beneficial to us. I'll not make it along in time, sadly. The closing date is November 30th, I'll put in some calls for advise from my sekrit societies and get an application in before then with the other directors. Andy, you're always down

[57north-discuss] Fridayspace

2015-10-23 Thread Dave Hibberd
I will be in space tonight, Friday the todayth of October. I'll be listening to ABGT[1] as it's broadcast live and fiddling with BBSes, Beagle Bone blacks and other such things. Hx [1] http://www.aboveandbeyond.nu/abgt -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin:

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Openday Thursday,

2015-09-15 Thread Dave Hibberd
> Hi, Doc. > > I'll be in trying to decide if I should re-install Windows 7 on my > laptop just so that I can get a 'free' upgrade to Windows 10 :-) > > [Crashed and burned trying to do the upgrade in a VirtualBox VM] > > Bye, > > Tony. > I'll only be in briefly as I've got a pub to attend

Re: [57north-discuss] Open Tuesday

2015-09-01 Thread Dave Hibberd
Yes, I shall be present. Yes, I shall be doing things. No, I don't know what they are. In unrelated news, do remember to check https://haveibeenpwned.com I'm in 3 leaks and at least 8 pastebins... and that explains how I lost control of my Spotify account. Check your passwords kids! hx On

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Muddy Tuesday

2015-08-04 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be in, continuing to fiddle with touchscreen raspberry pi party streaming and docker and more. I'll probably be complaining about something insignificant too. Hx -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd XMPP:

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Nae Tom Tuesday

2015-06-30 Thread Dave Hibberd
Well, I suck at setting reply headers, so you might be best off replying to this mail, or directly to 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co! I'll be in doing... something, probably. Hx On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:22:54AM +0100, Dave Hibberd wrote: Ladies and Gintlemen, Tuesday has rolled around

[57north-discuss] [foz...@hotmail.com: OpenStreetMap - State Of The Map - Scotland conference Sep 30 - Oct 4]

2015-06-29 Thread Dave Hibberd
- Forwarded message from Fozy 81 foz...@hotmail.com - Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:34:05 + From: Fozy 81 foz...@hotmail.com Subject: OpenStreetMap - State Of The Map - Scotland conference Sep 30 - Oct 4 Message-ID: dub127-w138de14e709d577821aab2cc...@phx.gbl OpenStreetMap Scotland

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-06-09 Thread Dave Hibberd
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:07:24AM +0100, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. Anyone is welcome to come a long and see what we get up to, normally there is hacking on projects, drinking of tea and finishing up newsletter articles. yes, I shall

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Open Tuesday

2015-06-02 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be about to complain about the inefficiencies of the cheque clearing system and moan about my mother's compulsion to open all my mail that goes to her house, despite me being a grown man and requesting she stops. I'm probably not going to be productive. Cheers, Hx -- Blog:

Re: [57north-discuss] Naming scheme

2015-05-15 Thread Dave Hibberd
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:11:50AM +0100, Tom Jones wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:11:37AM +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: A while back we had a meeting and made some plans about sorting out the space infrastructure. I've finally gotten round to looking at bringing some of those plans to

[57north-discuss] Project Thursdays

2015-05-14 Thread Dave Hibberd
After my Great Success(tm) on Tuesday in connecting an arduino to a gps module like some sort of digital lego, I'll be in space adding more building blocks to my toys tonight. Feel free to join me from ~7ish Hibby time onwards -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin:

Re: [57north-discuss] Space Tidyness

2015-05-06 Thread Dave Hibberd
Thanks Sir. Do we get a gold star to put on our special charts too? -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd XMPP: hi...@ccc.jabber.de GPG:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A 1904 771B Twitter:

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-04-28 Thread Dave Hibberd
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:27:09AM +0100, Andy Gaskell wrote: Hiya I'll be down for a wee bit doing some stuff, not sure what. Utkarsh is away to the states, but gave me a couple of lent things to return to I was under the impression lent was over. I'm here all week folks - try the fish.

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-04-21 Thread Dave Hibberd
Hi all, I will be in, looking at radio things - more work on my plug in aprs set up and maybe some other stuff. Does anyone have any pic programming equipment? A pickit or similar that I can play with? I thnk that's my issue, but I could be wrong! I might just try to ICSP it tonight.

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-04-14 Thread Dave Hibberd
Aye I'll be there, playing with data radio and soldering and things probably. Failing that, tea and wittering on about nothing as usual. hx -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd XMPP: hi...@ccc.jabber.de GPG:5E4F

[57north-discuss] Radio Saturday @ Aberdeen Uni

2015-04-10 Thread Dave Hibberd
Eeeevening all! If you're about tomorrow, there's been some talk of playing with radios at the university. If this is your thing, swing by - there should be HF, data modes and maybe talking to people on the local repeater too. We shall see. Plan is to start at 1230 @ Fraser

[57north-discuss] Mondayhax

2015-04-06 Thread Dave Hibberd
Goood Monday Hackers! Welcome to Week 15 of 2015 - we're more than a quarter of the way towards 2016! Way to go guys, great effort! I trust you survived the annual Mr T celebration day, April 1st - did you get fooled or were you only pitying the fool? I was daahn saahf in Lahndahn last

[57north-discuss] Thursday Night Hacking

2015-03-26 Thread Dave Hibberd
Nerds and Nerdesses, I'll be in space from 1930 or so tonight poking at things stuff, likely the convergence point of debian/raspi/hamradio (it neeearly works!) and/or pontificating on other radio stuff. Feel free to come join me for a pre-weekend wind down and get your hack on. Hx -- Blog:

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Libre Tuesday

2015-03-17 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll probably be along via brewdog, toasting our own fragile mortality in an annual ritual... I might do some radio or something too, maybe some arduino stuff. IDK, see you tonight! -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd XMPP:

Re: [57north-discuss] Radio Adventures

2015-03-13 Thread Dave Hibberd
Oh man, I can bring my stove with actual gas this time and maybe boil water. Excellent idea! -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd XMPP: hi...@ccc.jabber.de GPG:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1

[57north-discuss] Music tonight!

2015-03-12 Thread Dave Hibberd
Happy Thursday everyone! It's time of the oft rumoured, rarely discussed return of music/noisenight! I'm going to be in looking tired and run down, considering the finer points of midi and microcontrollers from 730/8ish onwards. If you want to come in and make a racket, now's your chance - it

[57north-discuss] Radio Adventures

2015-03-12 Thread Dave Hibberd
Good Thursday hackers! Tom and I have had a discussion and decided we would like to see more of Scotland now that the Spring is on its way. To this end, we are going to go on an adventure to ~ 57.7009, -3.4511 with an HF radio, a VHF radio and probably a picnic in my tiny car. Because I'm

[57north-discuss] Monday Night Hacks

2015-03-09 Thread Dave Hibberd
Gd afternoon happy hackers. I'm going to be in space ~ 1930 tonight to play with toys and stuff for a couple of hours before I get tired and go to bed early. Feel free to come play also! Shove a reply up here if you're coming in! hx -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin:

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] March Tuesday

2015-03-03 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be in, focussing on Infobeamer 2: Infobeamer Returns, talking about this weekend's failed radio experiments, drinking herbal tea and pondering upon the universe's harder questions: - Just why does a banjo sound so fantastic and - If laboratoried didn't have raised benches, would they be

Re: [57north-discuss] This Weekend

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be in in about 45mins to an hour. Gotta shower and I'll be there. Might as well do something! -- Blog: http://www.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A 1904 771B Twitter:

Re: [57north-discuss] Friday

2015-02-04 Thread Dave Hibberd
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 09:15:19PM +, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 08:20:13PM +, Tom Jones wrote: Sometimes I think about these emails being read out in a court room. Good thing they're all cryptographically signed. I hereby give you permission to publically

[57north-discuss] Muszak Night

2015-01-28 Thread Dave Hibberd
Good Day, hackertypes! I'll be in the space from 730ish tonight, for the first Music (Muzak) night. The idea is just to have an evening for those that make noise, be it DIY vuvuzela or electric guitar or something all together more weird. I'll be poking at code for the evening, I've had plans

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2015-01-27 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be there. Doing something, probably. -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A 1904 771B Twitter:@Hibbie Call: MM3ZRZ signature.asc

[57north-discuss] Layout Updates!

2015-01-15 Thread Dave Hibberd
Good morning nerds! A few of us were in the space updating the layout of it last night, following Tuesday's discussion. The main change is that we've swapped the big rack for 2x24U racks, and stuck a tabletop between them (this was more work than it first sounds). The bookshelves have also

Re: [57north-discuss] New Semantic MediaWiki for 57North

2015-01-13 Thread Dave Hibberd
If we keep discussing semantics (get it?), we'll get nowhere, so I'm pulling this back out to some more broad points that may be worth considering before we all fall out over the mailing list again. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:10:20AM +, Robert McWilliam wrote: Sorry for not getting back to

Re: [57north-discuss] Running?

2015-01-07 Thread Dave Hibberd
Yea, might be up for that. were you thinking we might get a 57n team? I've not really thought it through as far as that. But that's a possibility. Would it be ateam, a ragtag bunch, or a crack commando unit sent to military prison for a crime they didn't commit? It is the same route as

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Winter Pot Luck Dinner!

2014-12-18 Thread Dave Hibberd
Hands up who's coming and who's bringing what? it it going to be me on my own eating vast quantities of pasta? hx -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A 1904 771B

[57north-discuss] Monday Haximilie

2014-12-08 Thread Dave Hibberd
Howdy y'all. I'll be in space from 8ish tonight performing surgery on what's left of my phone to try and resurrect it. Feel free to come join and do things too. Hx -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8

[57north-discuss] Monday Space Session

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Hibberd
It's Monday! That means I'll be down at the space playing at electronics and trying to escape the shame of my weekend! I should arrive at 8ish - when the rest of you arrive is up to yourselves! I've got plans on playing at kicad and stuff... I've also got plans on an early night, so

Re: [57north-discuss] Friday evening

2014-11-21 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be about - if the door's locked, give us a bell on the spacephone. Cheers, DH On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:14:00PM +, Tony Travis wrote: Hi, Is anyone else going into the Space this evening? I'll be there about 9pm if I can work out how to get in... @Rich - Did you get the PSU?

Re: [57north-discuss] Space access for members who are behind in paying dues

2014-11-19 Thread Dave Hibberd
foreach ($dismembered as $user) mail($user-email, Dismemberment, You have been kicked out of 57North); Surely the site used for keeping track of members could do this for you? Patches Welcome :) -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin:

[57north-discuss] Electronik Monday

2014-11-17 Thread Dave Hibberd
Happy Monday everyone! I know it's late for the Monday announcement mail, but I've been too busy twisting my melon, man, to step on. I'll be in the space for ABZ.Electron tonight, doing electronic things. My list includes (but isn't limited to): - Musing the installation of a radio in my car -

[57north-discuss] Introducing ABZ.Electron - Monday Night Electronics Session!

2014-11-10 Thread Dave Hibberd
Goood Morning Hackers! It's Monday, and that means one thing - another incredible week full of opportunity and excitement awaits! Tonight's focus is Electronics! Analog circuits, ICs, Arduinos (and other microcontrollers), Digital Logic and more! Come along and experiment on

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-11-04 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be along poking at the inside of my radio I've successfully broken. Once I'm done there I'll be thinking about other stuff I probably want to do, maybe playing with echolink and looking on ham radio speed dating column for someone with a bubbly personality and gsoh. Other activities include

Re: [57north-discuss] Hallowe'en Party?

2014-10-31 Thread Dave Hibberd
For those who want to come play tonight, I'll probably be spaceside for about 8ish. I've got a couple of pals that may/not appear, we shall see. hx -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59

[57north-discuss] Library Rules Wednesday

2014-10-29 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be in from 8ish for project work and stuff tonight. As ever, if you incessantly chatter, I'll shush you and chide you. Obviously conversation and discussion is allowed - I'm not a career librarian, only a hobbyist with a stun gun*. I'm going to be hopefully installing a new bin, trying to

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be in playing with 555 timers, transistors and possibly an LED or two. Because of reasons. Drinking tea too. hx -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A 1904

Re: [57north-discuss] Themed Thursdays

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Hibberd
long as it does not involve raptors, you don't even need to ask permission. What about watching Jurassic Park? -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A 1904 771B

Re: [57north-discuss] Themed Thursdays

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Hibberd
P.s. Where do we stand on cyborg Triops [1], ethically speaking? Seems more doable. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops Your honour, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if you'll just lend me your ear for a brief moment longer, I shall clear up the against argument for the standing on

Re: [57north-discuss] Hallowe'en Party?

2014-10-27 Thread Dave Hibberd
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:07:30PM +, Tom Jones wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:05:27PM +, Andrea Faulds wrote: On 27 Oct 2014, at 13:31, Doc Ocassi dococa...@boukom.com wrote: On another side we could do a group thing that is not too difficult, I have three V for

[57north-discuss] Spacey Monday

2014-10-27 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be in space tonight, probably from 20:00 onwards. I won't be enforcing library rules but if you turn up and talk incessantly, I'll shock you with a stun gun or something. I'll be fiddling with things and stuff, probably building a to do list to get things done. There'll probably be no radio

Re: [57north-discuss] Aberdeen Model Railway Club Exhibition

2014-10-24 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be there play. I'm still vaguely on time.jp, so 2PM outside? I'll likely cycle down :) God damn I'm so excited. -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A

Re: [57north-discuss] Last night - Re: Fwd: Bruce, stay inside with an extra pizza

2014-10-22 Thread Dave Hibberd
I wasn't there - I was in Japan. it must have been crap. hx -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1 FB7A 1904 771B Twitter:@Hibbie Call: MM3ZRZ

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday for sale

2014-09-30 Thread Dave Hibberd
Hey kids, I'll be there, smiling, talking about radios, thinking about things and drinking tea. I'm living the high life. Hx -- Blog: http://beta.hibby.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Fingerprint:5E4F 5451 93E8 969C 8A59 B80A 03A1

[57north-discuss] Maphacks!

2014-09-29 Thread Dave Hibberd
God evening kids! I've noticed that one or two of us are into hacking at OSM, and I've always been a bit curious myself. With that in mind, I've got myself some dastardly collaborators and I'm planning an OSM weekend in 57n... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aberdeen/MapHack/2014-11 I'm

Re: [57north-discuss] Homeless Guy Sleeping in Hall

2014-09-28 Thread Dave Hibberd
It's worth mentioning at this point that it's worth contacting the other people that occupy the building, and its owners to discuss this with them. As it stands, CCTV is covered by ~things~ in the data protection act, and we'd want to have everyone's consent before ploughing on and putting in a

[57north-discuss] Tuesday Talks!

2014-09-06 Thread Dave Hibberd
Following the good feedback from this Tuesday, I'd like to run another talk on Tuesday. Have I got any volunteers to share what they're up to? I want to hear about your projects, what excites you or what you've read recently that you think is cool. If you would be interested in speaking about

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday

2014-08-26 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be about, spreading the good word of Death to the West, drinking as much gin as is in sight, planning for EMF now that i'm officially going and/or doing something productive (hah). hx On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:42:08AM +0100, Tom Jones wrote: Hello Hackers, Once again it is Tuesday

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

2014-07-29 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be about with a big smile, drinking gin and being social, offering hugs and good chat* to those who desire them, and generally trying to be a catalyst for awesome. Hx *I assume my chat is good. -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Check out my blog: http://beta.hibby.info

[57north-discuss] Radios!

2014-06-23 Thread Dave Hibberd
All, On thursday night I brought some amateur radio kit to the space. Despite our best efforts, myself and irl couldn't get anyone to talk to us. This has all changed however, when I spoke to not one but two people last night over our nearest repeater! Currently our radios (both amateur and

Re: [57north-discuss] Parallella

2014-06-19 Thread Dave Hibberd
with a terrifyingly creative solution to any issue we're having: http://imgur.com/kt9idNA hx On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:06:47PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/14 16:18, Dave Hibberd wrote: I can't wait to see this, I might take a break from

Re: [57north-discuss] Parallella

2014-06-18 Thread Dave Hibberd
I can't wait to see this, I might take a break from sipping Gin on the other side of the room to investigate! hx On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 01:30:03PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: Hi, My Parallella (Epiphany 16-core parallel processor) four-node 'cluster' kit *did* arrive yesterday after all!

Re: [57north-discuss] Beach BBQ?

2014-06-11 Thread Dave Hibberd
Yeah, I'm beginning to think the weather in westhill is somewhat better than what y'all are experiencing in town based on a few reports. Postpone until we can guarantee good weather? hx -- Linkedin: http://http://www.linkedin.com/in/davehibberd Check out my blog: http://beta.hibby.info

Re: [57north-discuss] Sunny Tuesday

2014-06-03 Thread Dave Hibberd
Wooo, it's gin and tuesday! I'll be about for 830/9ish for my usual dose of poking at microcontrollers/refamiliarising with C. Failing that, I'll bring a radio and transmit some digital noises to see if someone's listening. hx On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 09:06:12AM +0100, Tom Jones wrote: Hello

Re: [57north-discuss] Locating Radio Beacons

2014-05-22 Thread Dave Hibberd
member, I am currently very much looking into iBeacons / LibreBeacon.org to do exactly the same thing. Marcel On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Iain R. Learmonth i...@fsfe.org wrote: Dave, I have someone in the lab who wants to look at locating radio beacons through triangulation

Re: [57north-discuss] Chiptune hack-a-long

2014-05-21 Thread Dave Hibberd
And here was me planning on having a quiet night of doing laundry, poking at recreational spreadsheets and listening to the new coldplay album on my own. I might be forced to join you. Hx On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Edward Watson wrote: Hey all I'll be heading down to the

Re: [57north-discuss] Tuesday

2014-05-13 Thread Dave Hibberd
I'll be about to talk nothing, radio, comms and project ideas most likely :) DHx On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:40:10AM +0100, Tom Jones wrote: Hi All, It is Tuesday again, our weekly open night. Any member that is planning on coming in should reply here and tell everyone the cool things

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Dave Hibberd
Would you like to use me as a test case to work out if this particular proposed potential personnel proposal procedure actually works, after there's agreement that the process potentially performs perfectly. In related news, today appears to be P alliteration day. H On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at

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