[Wylug-discuss] Re: [GeekUp] Hardware hacking in Leeds

[Andrew J Cole]

I haven't noticed this one on WYLUG and thought some amongst us might
be interested.

Andrew

>Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:19:30 +0100
>From: robl <robl at monkeyhelper.com>
>To: geekup at googlegroups.com
>Subject: [GeekUp] Hardware hacking in Leeds
>
>Hey,
>
>I'm looking at pulling together a hardware hacking event/meet/workshop 
>in Leeds (mid to late July).
>
>At the moment, I'm trying to gauge interest levels and get a better idea 
>  of what form it should take - options include :
>
>- simple meet down the pub, maybe some demos of stuff people have built
>- a small workshop (playing with the Arduino and it's capabilities, 
>things you can interface with) involving hacking something
>- a bigger event combining demos, talks and a workshop
>
>I've chatted with the chaps at tinker.it [1] and they've kindly said 
>they'll lend us some Arduino Boards [2] and other bits, so I'd like to 
>base the workshop idea around that, if thats the path we take.
>
>I'm favoring the small workshop at the moment.  Where we can hack 
>something (like a robosapien) and hook it up to an Arduino.
>
>So, if this is something you'd like to be involved in/attend/learn about 
>then reply to this and let me know what you'd like to see/do and if 
>you've done any hardware hacking before.
>
>If you're wondering what kinds of things you can do, then here's 
>something I built last week at a workshop :
>
>http://www.rattleresearch.com/archives/2008/06/arduino-workshop-roundup.html
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rob
>
>[1] http://www.tinker.it
>[2] http://www.arduino.cc
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