[backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle
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 Manchester. We aim to arrive in Newcastle Firday evening to set up, and we'll be on site on our stand all weekend, plus Ian will be hosting backstage workshops around noon (we think) on both Saturday and Sunday. We're calling them workshops, but basically if you've seen our Barcamp schtick, that's what you'll get- what backstage has been, what we hope it will be, plus I may throw in some random stuff about a BBC Micro for the 21st Century. So, hope we see lots of you there! DO come and say hi, and hopefully, we'll get to do this a lot more over the coming months! Cheers Ant On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote: 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 (if you came to Mashed you may have met a few of them). Our plan is to 'do something with weather data and little robots and maybe some sort of RFID', and if any 'backstagers' are intertested in coming along to the event we'd be chuffed to bits to catch up and even use a bot of your expertise. It's lilely we may need a bit of a hand munging feeds, writing control routines for the robots or even just hacking the R/C toys we plan to use as chassis for the robots, so do come along if you can. There'll be a proper post on the Backstage blog ina day or so, I'm blogging at Reithian, and at some point in th enext week BBCWeatherbot.com should go live! See you there! a On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just a heads up on the forthcoming Newcastle Maker Faire: http://makezine.com/makerfaire/newcastle/2009/ If anyone is considering going along as a Maker with a view to do media hackery, and would like the sort of support we were able to offer at Hack Day or Mashed do let us know. I'm hoping to go myself, and a few of the guys in RD are looking at it too, though this might be in a personal capacity. We're trying to get the TV making types interested too, which could be fun, a -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com
Re: [backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle
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 couple of gigs of RAM and more drive space than existed on the plant in 1984 will work through the Tube? :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle
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 social, political, and technology all together. Big ideas, well worth exploring, a On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM, J.P.Knight j.p.kni...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: 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 couple of gigs of RAM and more drive space than existed on the plant in 1984 will work through the Tube? :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com
[backstage] Re: Maker Faire in Newcastle
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 (if you came to Mashed you may have met a few of them). Our plan is to 'do something with weather data and little robots and maybe some sort of RFID', and if any 'backstagers' are intertested in coming along to the event we'd be chuffed to bits to catch up and even use a bot of your expertise. It's lilely we may need a bit of a hand munging feeds, writing control routines for the robots or even just hacking the R/C toys we plan to use as chassis for the robots, so do come along if you can. There'll be a proper post on the Backstage blog ina day or so, I'm blogging at Reithian, and at some point in th enext week BBCWeatherbot.com should go live! See you there! a On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just a heads up on the forthcoming Newcastle Maker Faire: http://makezine.com/makerfaire/newcastle/2009/ If anyone is considering going along as a Maker with a view to do media hackery, and would like the sort of support we were able to offer at Hack Day or Mashed do let us know. I'm hoping to go myself, and a few of the guys in RD are looking at it too, though this might be in a personal capacity. We're trying to get the TV making types interested too, which could be fun, a -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com
