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In London
- TONIGHT "The limits of science" at the royal institution
- WEDNESDAY, next Dorkbot 23rd of March at an alternative location
- SUNDAY COMING Sterling engines at a steam museum (near Kew gardens i think?). might find time to post this to the mailing list....
- West London Radio & Electronics Fair 17th April 2001. Known as Kempton park rally. Opens at 10AM, by 1400h the crowd has mostly gone and the traders are thinking about packing up. Mostly radio stuff rarther than hobbist electronics.
see Ian visits for other London events of a intellectual but somewhat less geeky nature.
In UK
- UK Teslathon Nottingham 5th march and October 30/31, Cambridge
- 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).
- 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.
In Europe
- [1] Geeks of London international hackcamp, Delft, The Netherlands.] 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
Non-geographic / virtual / broadcast
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, Newcastle, 13-14 March
- 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).
- Random and Pseudorandom 13 Jan, BBC Radio 4, 9am
Visited / Past Events
In London
- 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.