Tag Archives: DIY

Coming soon – Bath Digital Festival

Posted on 20/02/2012 by woodsy

12 miles down the road from Bristol, the first ever Bath Digital Festival is taking place at various venues around the city next month from 15th to 25th. Bath Digital Festival brings together an array of exciting events that will … Continue reading →

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Tip of the day: go and buy Linux Format

Posted on 14/11/2011 by woodsy

Yes, you did read that correctly. It’s not very often the freetards of the Bristol Wireless lab recommend you spend any money. After all, we like our software to be free in both the beer and speech senses! However, for … Continue reading →

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Flossie Unconference next spring – be there or be proprietary!

Posted on 13/10/2011 by woodsy

Flossie, the network of women who are interested in, use, advocate and/or develop Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), has just announced its unconference for next spring. Queen Mary at University of London (QMUL) has offered to host the Flossie … Continue reading →

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Linus Torvalds releases subsurface dive tracking software

Posted on 23/09/2011 by woodsy

Linus Torvalds, the creator and maintainer in chief of the Linux kernel, is also well known for his hobby of scuba diving and – as The H-online reports – he’s has just released subsurface, a dive-tracking program he wrote after … Continue reading →

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Bristol Dorkbot tonight

Posted on 17/05/2011 by woodsy

Bristol Dorkbot gets together this evening at the Pervasive Media Studio in town (map), starting at 8 pm, although the doors will be open from 7.30 pm. Tonight’s main feature will be an “Unskillswap”; if someone knows what this is, … Continue reading →

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It’s not cricket, it’s #twicket!

Posted on 26/04/2011 by woodsy

The Lancashire village of Wray (population approx. 500) became a true global village on Easter Monday with a world first – the live streaming of video and audio coverage of a village cricket match over the internet. The protagonists were … Continue reading →

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Yet more wifi DIY… weatherproofing

Posted on 25/02/2009 by woodsy

Regular readers will be aware of the activities or our DIY wifi enthusiast Tony whose adaptation of a humble USB wifi dongle have been documented here before (news passim). Well, he’s been making further modifications… Bristol is not blessed with … Continue reading →

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More DIY wifi news…

Posted on 18/02/2009 by woodsy

Tony, our DIY wifi devotee, has now sent me graphic evidence of the effectiveness his fan grille-enhanced USB dongle (news passim). It’s fairly obvious from the image that there’s a clear signal boost to the dongle when attached to the … Continue reading →

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Techadventure – one month to go

Posted on 26/01/2009 by woodsy

I was reminded today by a fellow labrat that there’s only one month to go to the next Adventure in Technology – Techadventure for short, as mentioned here last autumn (news passim). “An Adventure in Technology” is a party which … Continue reading →

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DIY wifi

Posted on 20/01/2009 by woodsy

Bristol Wireless volunteer Tony Stone has been experimenting with increasing the range of USB wifi dongles and has come up with a splendid bit of home-made kit. In Tony’s own words: I was having trouble picking up my local WiFi … Continue reading →

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