[backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle

2009-03-11 Thread Ant Miller
Hi all, Final uopdate before we go. The BBCWeatherBot is coming togewther nicely (he says with *everything* crossed) and we also have a coiuple of other neat little makes along too. The team now includes star researchers from Kingswood Warren and the new RD lab that's coming together in

Re: [backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle

2009-03-11 Thread J.P.Knight
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Ant Miller wrote: [...] random stuff about a BBC Micro for the 21st Century. That sounds intriguing, especially to someone who spent many hours of his school boy life installing/fixing/hacking on the first generation version. I wonder if a dual core Intel CPU with a

Re: [backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle

2009-03-11 Thread Ant Miller
BBC Micro C21st is not about a machine per se. It's a conversation about what was the Micro 25 years ago, and what could a similar effort do for us today. It's probably time I took this out of the realm oif occasional Bar Camp chats and put up a web community looking at the whole thing, but it's

[backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle

2009-02-08 Thread Ant Miller
Hi all, Just a quick update on our progress- the deadline for getting in a Maker proposal was today! (you got 5 1/4 hours so get going!) From the Backstage / RD area we're sending a team of between six and eight people, including Ian, Rain and myself, plus some of the guys from Kingswood Warren