Project:Maker Faire Newcastle 2011

Maker Faire UK 2011 is on the 12th and 13th of March 2011 in Newcastle.

We'll be heading up on the Friday night and going on a Hackspace pub crawl with all the other Hackspaces.

We are also organising a game of Quaser for Saturday night - Quazar

Hack Area

This year we'll be running the hack area, hacking, making, and talking to people about what we're doing. Pretty much just messing around like we normally do.

We need to tell Maker Faire what we'll be taking up with us, how much power we need, and if we have anything huge.

Here's what we're taking

Soldering Stations / Solder
Oscillyscope
Lasers
Makerbot
PCB etching gear
Power Supplies
Multimeters
Networking equipment
Projector - I can bring an Acer P5370W along if wanted. I also have a free standing screen about 2M across. Nigle
Kinect(s)
Webcams
Speakers
Wire
Assorted components
Bluetooth/wifi adapters
Assorted hand tools
Dremels
Wood/Perspex
Screws and assorted fasteners
Microcontrollers
Smoke machine
RC Equipment
Servos
Motors
Ball bearings (CRAZY MARBLE RUN \o/)
Wireless cameras
USB Video encoders
Batteries
Power Supplies/* Here's what we're taking */
Wire
RFID
Microcontrollers
Power strips
Network cable
Gaffer tape
LX tape (buy some)
Some lockpicking gear
Toolboxes
First aid shit
Other tape
USRP
Osmocombb phones
Radios
Multitouch table
STICKERS
3G dongle from Babbage

Who's going?

JimM - Saying in the Swallow Hotel (since it had parking)
Jonty
Russ
~~Bob/b3cft~~ Cannot make it :'(
Oni either both days or one depending on weather/cash.
SamLR
Solexious While I can't drive I would love to be on the team taking the hack van up
Nigle Staying at the Clifton House Hotel, room in car for gear/people. Travelling up on Thursday and back on Monday.
Mark
Spike - Staying in Jurys Inn which claims to be "2 mins walk from central station" but does not have private parking :-(.
Rain - Decided to get train - before tix get really expensive, if there is a van would like to put my mannequin in there if room allows
Bugs - Hopefully have some DIYbio stuff to show? I'll try to think of some quickish experiments...
earthshine - Staying at the Clifton House Hotel.
tomw - staying in a random hostel, i'll bring the kinect things
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tomscott - taking the car with Mark and co, staying with Solexious in a Best Western
Underhand - driving up friday evening, returning sunday. Space in car available from/to Cambridge/Peterborough area.

What are we doing?

We will be running the hack area, where everyone can sit and tinker/hack. We shall have to take tools & equipment for people to use.

Individual presentations

Some members have applied to individually present:

A steam-powered turing machine - JimM (sadly, unlikely to be actually steam-powered unless the venue permits it)
I am exhibiting separately from Hackspace area: Twinkle Tartiflette, I <3 0X0 (interactive wearables / sound / game artworks) and possibly Grand Cat Turismo if I have time to finish! - Rain
I'll bring the kinect and show off some of the crap i've written for it - tom

Transport

Train is the quickest way, from King's Cross straight to Newcastle. Some of us may be bringing more equipment, so may need to hire a van or car.

JimM will likely be hiring an estate car, but setting off from Cambridge rather than London.

Publicity material

I've ordered 600 80mm dia circular gloss vinyl stickers based upon Russ' design as in File:London_sticker.svg - although there is really some other text that does not display on MediaWiki. There should be enough for each paying member to have one of these stickers and then 300 or so to hand out in Newcastle. Spike

These have now been printed and are at the 'space. Hopefully the hiding text issue mentioned above was resolved (I've not seen the finished article yet but am taking Diginate's word for it). I've given Martin D permission to give some of these stickers to the six year olds due to visit this coming Saturday (26th Feb 2011) - so there's still 380 or so for Maker Fair! SpikeUK 04:21, 24 February 2011 (UTC)