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 25th 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(!).
• Knit and stitch exhibition 28th of Feb Farnborough
• HackWimbledon Saturday 1st of march. Meetup with a talk about small computer boards, presumably arduino etc.
• Camden skeptics in the pub discuss artifical intelligence on the 3rd of march in the Monarch bar
• xmpp meetup 4th of march at the mozilla space
• Servicejam London another hackday type thing 7th of March
• Brixton restart party 8th March people bring broken stuff and get help fixing it
• [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.

• Science showoff at the star of kings pub, 18th of march.
• Fakebit Polytechnik at the Windmill Brixton 12th of March via
• Amateur radio skills workshop 17th of March essex via tx1 forum

Another free exhibition, this at the British Library, called Beautiful Science, and about the graphic (and kinegraphic) display of information. Similarly, some quite beautiful graphics around heart electro-physiology are available online, just google the subject or similar, e.g."cardio electrics" "circle map" "Arnold tongue" (the last two are difficult maths but lovely patterns).

• NPL teddington open house Register for a look around the National Physical Laboratory
• Sensingspaces now until 6th of April. I'm told it's worth going.
• Music tech fest May 2014 in London, add the date here when known.

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

In UK

• Sinclair weekend The Centre for Computing History is holding a Sinclair weekend in Cambridge on the 1st and 2nd March.
• HackCircus Sheffield 15th of March
• Big Bang Faire Birmingham NEC, 13-16 March 2014. Science and engineering for young people.
• Makerfair in Newcastle 26/27 April.
• Programming and sausages probably 18th of Sept
• Hackference 19th of September in Birmingham

In Europe

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

Internationally

• Makerland 17-19March, Warsaw, Poland. "A theme park for makers"
• EHSM Open source hardware and software Hamburg in June "lectures delivered by international makers, hackers, scientists and engineers on topics such as nuclear fusion, chip design, vacuum equipment machining, and applied quantum physics"
• Hackerbeach

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?
• London ruby user group second monday of the month
• list of conferences with open calls for participation
• London webstandards monthly

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