[Liverpool] Fwd: [hsNW] Liverpool Maker Night - Jan 19th

[Adrian McEwen]

Afternoon,

We're giving the Liverpool Hackspace a bit of a reboot with some more 
focused and hands on (rather than just drinking and chatting) evenings, 
from next Wednesday.  It's a good chance to get to grips with 
electronics, hardware hacking and digital fabricating...

Cheers,

Adrian.

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Subject: 	[hsNW] Liverpool Maker Night - Jan 19th
Date: 	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:57:38 +0000
From: 	Ross Jones <rossdjones at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	nw-hack-space at googlegroups.com
To: 	NW-hack-space at googlegroups.com



Hello all,

Thought I had better send out a reminder about next weeks event with 
slightly more detail.

We'll be meeting at the Art and Design Academy (directions and address - 
http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/location/routeplanner.asp?id=92 ), on the 19th Jan 
at around 6.30 for a 7 o'clock start - finishing at 8.45 so that we can 
make it to a public house for post meeting refreshments.

As this is our first meeting at ADA and we'll hopefully be having some 
students attend we're aiming to make it an introductory session so that 
the students aren't dropped into a room full of geeks talking about 
resistors and the finer points of TC54 usage. We're hoping that we can 
initiate some cross-disciplinary use of the workshop as well as 
introducing some fine art, design and architecture students to the joys 
of making/hacking things. It's a great opportunity for us to get access 
to their digital fabrication stuff, as well as the general workshop - 
I'm personally hoping to learn some none-digital stuff from the students 
that already know how to use the workshops.

The general structure of the evening is likely to be as follows, with 
some obvious flexibility in timing if any talks run over.

1. Welcome - Adrian McEwen.
2. Housekeeping - Lol Baker.
3. Fabrication lightning talk - Andy Goodwin
4. Physical computing talk - Adrian McEwen
5. a. ARDx kits (introduction to Arduino), or
    b. Planning for those interested in building the Cupcake (when it 
arrives), or
    c. General hacking for those that wish to do so.
6. Wrap up with Q&A on next event
7. Retire to public house for refreshments.

If anyone has anything they think they'd like to add to point 5 then 
please let us know. If you're unsure what you could work on, or aren't 
really sure where to begin, come anyway and I'm sure we can find a 
project for you to do.  If you're thinking you'd rather just lurk, then 
come and lurk in person - we're pretty friendly - honest!

It would be great if you could make it and please feel free to invite 
anyone else you know who may be interested.  It's a great opportunity 
for us to increase the membership and the breadth of knowledge of the 
Liverpool hacking community, and hopefully provide a temporary but warm 
space for us to hold our meetings while we're looking for space.

Ross.

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