Oddly I have been asked a few times what events are worth attending. I have also been asked to help pimp a few events recently as well, so this post will hopefully help everybody. If you are interested in learning, building, or socialising then have a look at the evens and consider coming along.
August
Sat 29th : Geek Steam BBQ
September
Sat 5th – Sun 6th : BarCampBrighton
Fri 4th – Sun 6th : Geeks in the PeaksFri 11th – 12th : EcoMo09
Sun 13th : Big Geek Day OutSat 19th – Sun 20th : Charity Hack Day
Fri 25th – Sat 26th : Over the Air
Sat 26th – Sun 27th : BathCampOctober
3rd – 4th : Hack North
Sat 17th : BarCampBlackpool
24th – 25th : BarCampLondon7
Sat 31st : VampDevCamp
November
Sat 7th – Sun 8th : BarCampManchester2
Sat 14th : BarCampBradford
The only filtering criteria I have used on this list is if it is an event that I would like to attend (if I had the time). In truth I will be attending quite a few of them, probably more than I should.
Update: BarCampLondon7 added.
Delicious
Flickr
Google Plus
Hackaday
Instructables
Lanyrd
Twitter
YouTube
Facebook
Geocaching
Evan Raskob (PixelPusher – http://pixelist.info/), a Dorkbot London regular, who generates video out of a controlled chaos of photographic images, simple shapes, animations, sounds, and live video feeds. All software is homemade, all imagery is created live; things may go wrong in beautiful ways, and no performance is ever the same. He will be showing show some of his experiments in live drawing, such as JelloTail and his latest project, Cartoon Tentacles
Aaron Nielsen of Oomlout (www.oomlout.com) has recently moved to Leeds from Vancouver to further his business developing Arduino microcontrollers and will be talking about The Joy of Arduinos
Alastair MacDonald, (blog.agm.me.uk/blog) Known to many in Newcastle through his involvement in BarCamp and other events will be telling us about and demonstrating one of his percussion machines, which create musical instruments from found objects.
Come along meet other people interested in making stuff, or seeing what others make, and let me know if there is a project you are involved in that you’d like to talk about at a future Dorkbot Newcastle
Date – 5 October,
Time – 7.30pm
Venue – Lifelab Welcome Room, Centre for Life (enter via Lifelab entrance http://tinyurl.com/ljwfoo )
Entry – Free