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.

Who's going?

JimM - Saying in the Swallow Hotel (since it had parking)
Jonty
Russ
~~Bob/b3cft~~ Cannot make it :'(
Oni
Elliot
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
Mark
Spike - Staying in Jurys Inn which claims to be "2 mins walk from central station" but does not have private parking :-(.
Rain - Am exhibiting - waiting to hear from Jonty whether there's a minibus going, I need to be there in the afternoon to set up my stand. Otherwise, Spike has kindly offered to give me a lift.
Bugs - Hopefully have some DIYbio stuff to show? I'll try to think of some quickish experiments...

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.

Some members have applied to individually present:

The Battenberg (An autonomous airship) - Russ/Jonty
A steam-powered turing machine - JimM (sadly, unlikely to be actually steam-powered unless the venue permits it)

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.