Other Events

See the calendar for details of activities at the Hackspace and events primarily aimed at LHS members.

This page is for other events, elsewhere, that may be of interest. Please add more events.

Upcoming

In London

• Raspberry pint People who like the raspberry pi mini computer talk to each other, watch of few presentions on whatever projects people bring along and have a few drinks. There are usually a couple of pi controlled bigtracks with robot arms grafted on the top. Southwark rooms, ten minutes walk from London bridge station. Tuesday january 28th
• Restoring the Bose Museum Swan automation talk at the society of model and experimental engineers 1st of feb
• Radio rally, Canvey Island Stalls of electronics and radio parts and equipment. 2nd of feb
• Tim Hunkin at Institue of making, know for the the secret life of machine's, inventor Tim Hunkin will be at IoM all day and giving a talk in the evening about his arcade in Southwold.
• South London Makerspace meetup
• OSHUG 31 security of embedded things Open source hardware group 20th of February
• A talk about hydrogen powered cars Hampstead scientific society. 20th of Feb
• In the making exhibition at the Design Museum until the 4th of May. twenty four objects mid-manufacture from the £2 coin to a cricket bat. Twelve quid to get in(!).

See Ian Visits for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature. Also Lanyard, meetup.com etc.

• [http://www.exploration-architecture.com/
• [http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk There is a free and fantastic exhibition near London Bridge about biomimetic architecture. Also TED talk by main man Michael Pawlyn.

Think H.R. Giger meets "World of Interiors", or the lovechild of the Natural History Museum and the V&A,(conceived in the Exhibition Road tunnel?). In the window are three slightly singed 3D printers, inside are biological specimens and biology-shaped architecture, furniture, 3D printed models, all curated to within an inch of their lives. The Architecture Foundation 136 Tooley Street SE1 2TU (020) 7084 6767 until 15 March.

In UK

• Big Bang Faire Birmingham NEC, 13-16 March 2014. Science and engineering for young people.
• Makerfair in Newcastle 26/27 April.

In Europe

• The 2nd workshop on Functional Programming in Art, Music, Modeling and Design 6th of september in Sweden

Recurring

In London

• Internet of things London Speakers, people, drinking. Connect everything to the internet. Usually more people want tickets than there is room for.
• Crystal Palace Radio & Electronics Club 1st Friday of each month, 8pm.
• mySociety Civic Hack Evening. Wednesdays 6-9pm at MozillaSpace.
• RiscOS User Group.
• CryptoParty
• RestartParty Fixing Stuff.
• Brixton Tinkerspace exists as a small weekly meetup. Discuss plans for a space in the Brixton area or just turn up to socialise.
• geekpub Geeks in a pub
• Dorkbot London: "people doing strange things with electricity"
• Science in the pub Roughly monthly, a talk on something sciency followed by drinking.
• Skeptics in the pub three different groups of them in London apparently, Hackney, Westminster and Camden.
• MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Mathjam London
• http://www.gllug.org.uk Greater London Unix User Group.
• Hampstead Scientific Society has talks on a wide variety of subjects
• IET london Regular possibly interesting talks.
• Open Wireless Network Wednesdays.
• http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+losug/ London Open Solaris User Group
• http://london2600.org.uk/ Telecomms, security and more...

• http://dc4420.org/ Defcon London Meetup. Check ?dc on IRC.

• http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/lates
• http://oshug.org/ Open Source Hardware User Group
• http://www.amiganorththames.co.uk/ Amiga North Thames User Group
• http://www.nintendisco.com/ A retro gaming night

• http://www.pubstandards.co.uk/ Where beer and web people collide. Check ?ps on IRC

• hacks/hackers Hacks & Hackers.
• http://eventhandler.co.uk/ Various geek events.
• Tour of Whitechapel bell foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) - needs about 4-6 months notice and a fixed number of people (20)
• http://www.cultureseekers.org/ Walks, history tours and stuff around London
• http://www.kensevents.co.uk/ London dinners, walks and days out organized by Ken.
• London amateur brewers meetup
• The institute of Physics hold a few talks each month, some interesting, usually open to the public.
• Tales of adventure Monthlyish London. Explorers and adventurers telling their stories.
• London model engineering show Loads of great tool stalls from screwdrivers to CNC mills. Jet engine builders association. Model trains are only a small part of it.
• the wild rumpus indie videogaming, presumably to return in january 2014?

In UK

• Maker Faire
• Various things at the Lighthouse in Brighton
• http://www.rsgb.org/events/ Amateur radio rallies around the country. Usually lots of cheap electronic components and interesting junk.
• DDRC Bootsale One of the biggest and best radio rallies in the UK, anually in May.

In Europe

• http://plumbercon.org/ (Vienna)
• http://eth-0.nl/ (The Netherlands)
• http://events.ccc.de/congress/ and CCC Camp (Germany)
• http://www.demoparty.net/
• http://www.fosdem.org/ (Belgium)

Internationally

• http://dorkbot.org/ Various cities globally
• http://www.2600.org/meetings/ Various cities globally (Paris 2600 wanted to do some sort of exchange visit a while back but we were too lazy to do anything).

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• World Amateur Radio Day - 18th April

Visited / Past Events

In London

• London CryptoFestival @Goldsmiths, Saturday, 30 November, 11-16:00.
• Dorkbot London #84 23rd of October at Stream Arts.
• Techno Activism 3rd Monday Monday 16th September 19-22:00.
• Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire 6th July at LCC.
• HowDo Fix-it evening. Thursday 4th July, 19-22:00, EC1Y.
• Folklore of Network Protocols talk by Radia Perlman, 15 January 4pm, UCL. video online here
• Funix term commenced 15th of January.
• restart parties

In UK

• Electro Magnetic Field: A UK Hacker Camp 31st August to the 2nd September.
• Hovershow 2012 April 28-29, Lee-on-the-Solent, outside Portsmouth video
• Mini Maker faire Derby maker fair

In Europe

• OHM July 31st – August 4th 2013. Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands. The next in a series of camps that have been happening every four years since 1989.

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• Free online CS courses Free online computer science course from Stanford university starting January
• Nate Silver talking at the RSA is full but you can listen to the live stream.

Archive

• 2012