Other Events

Upcoming

Next pubstandards thursday 14th April Next DC4420 wednesday 20th April

In London

• West London Radio & Electronics Fair 17th April 2001. Known as Kempton park rally. Opens at 10AM, by 2pm the crowd has mostly gone and the traders are thinking about packing up. Mostly radio stuff rather than hobbyist electronics. There is usually some nice cheap tools and nicad batterys on sale.
• BEAM: Brunel Electronic + Analogue Music Festival 24-26 June.

see Ian visits for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature.

In UK

• Blackpool radio rally 10th of April. Norbreck Castle hotel on Blackpool seafront. One of the biggest UK radio rallys. Parts, cable, junk. Radio's from new Japanese black box's to cheap ex-PMR stuff. Potential for a weekend away if you don't mind Blackpool and mildly grotty B&B's.

• Geeks In The Peaks May 27-30.

• NDARS radio boot sale 19th June. Huge amounts of cheap electronics bits and bobs and junk. Great day out provided it does not rain too much. Half a dozen hackspace people usually attend. It's a couple of hundred temporary tables in a field. Be there at opening time to get the bargains. Potential to organise lift sharing among people travelling from London (try asking User:Ajp or the mailing list).

• chance to tour a fusion reactor Wednesday 14 September, and maybe October/November.

• UK Teslathon October 30/31, Cambridge

In Europe

• [1] Geeks of London international hackcamp, Delft, The Netherlands.] April 26th - May 2nd. Only a couple of days left to sign up.
• http://events.ccc.de/2010/08/10/chaos-communication-camp-2011/, 10-14 August near Berlin. Some hackspace people are planning to go see the planning page

Recurring

In London

See http://london2.org/ for recurring events, especially Dorkbot (people doing strange things with electricity) and GLLUG (Greater London Linux User Group).

• http://darq.org.uk/: Free Unix Command Line Workshops every week in Shoreditch
• http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+losug/ London Open Solaris User Group
• http://www.socialtext.net/wikiwed/ Wiki Wednesday
• http://london2600.org.uk/ Telecomms, security
• http://dc4420.org/ Defcon (security)
• http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/lates
• http://oshug.org/ Open Source Hardware User Group
• Tour of Whitechapel bell foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) - needs about 4-6 months notice and a fixed number of people (20)

In UK

• Maker Faire
• http://www.rsgb.org/events/ Amateur radio rally's around the country. Usually lots of cheap electronic components and interesting junk.

In Europe

• http://plumbercon.org/ (Vienna)
• http://eth-0.nl/ (Den Oever)
• http://events.ccc.de/congress/ and CCC Camp (Berlin)
• 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).

Visited / Past Events

In London

• Sterling engines at Kew steam museum Sunday March 27th. This was a nice afternoon out. There were lots of working home made sterling engines being shown off by their creators. Some of the museums steam engines were running including one of the pumps that used to supply water to west london, impressive just by sheer size and better when it's running. Museum is best visited when the machines are running or when there is something else on. There is a decent free house in between Kew Bridge station and the museum to idle away the time until the next train.
• DorkBoatLondon10 sailing at 4:45pm, 11th September 2010
• OpenTech, 11 September 2010

• London Model Engineering Exhibition 21-23 January 2011. For those interested in the engineering side of things. A good place to pick up tools, parts, and materials. Usually focused on steam, rockets, indoor flying, and exceptionally detailed models built from scratch.
• Kinetica Art Fair 4-6 February 2011

In UK

• Maker Faire, Newcastle, 12-13 March 2011. The resulting tesla coil kinect video was popular beyond all expectations...
• Totally Tools, Birmingham 6-8 February 2011
• Whitstable wind farm/sea forts
• Visit to Tim Hunkin's exhibition at Southwold, combined with a highly scientific tour of the Adnam's brewery.
• Vintage Computer Festival at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park -- This is over now, it was very successful. Thanks to all that attended, we are hoping to hold another one at some point!
• Trip to Sound Mirrors in Denge - 2010-07-18
• British Science Festival, 14-19 September. This year in Aston: a week long series of lectures on various sciences (physical, chemical, mathematical, soft, etc.).
• PLASA, 12-15 September 2010
• NortHACKton are having a Pinball session on November 28th (changed: was 27th). London hackspace people also welcome, subject to limits on space - contact Artag for more details.

In Europe

• Ars Electronica 2-11 September 2010, Linz

Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast

• Random and Pseudorandom 13 Jan, BBC Radio 4, 9am