Our friends at Bristol Hackspace now have a chat channel, as testified by the following status update on Twitter. We have an IRC channel. Chat with us on irc.freenode.net in #bristolhackspace or on the website: http://bristol.hackspace.org.uk/chat/ We might see you in there for a natter sometime! 🙂
This tweet has just been published on Bristol Dorkbot’s Twitter feed: Unfortunately the March 23rd Dorkbot meeting is cancelled 🙁 Back in April 🙂 See you in April instead then, folks! 🙂
Back in October, we gave very early notice (news passim) of the 2012 Flossie Unconference taking place in London on 25th and 26th May 2012 at Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS (map). News has now arrived that the submissions deadlines has been extended to 19th March 2012 and further details […]
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 allow people to explore Bath’s thriving digital scene and get involved in a variety of […]
The item below was posted on the Dorkbot Bristol site a couple of days ago. Dorkbot Bristol and Bristol Hackspace share may links. Support from ‘BotLab’ the company that runs Bristol Hackspace and made the ‘Draw’ project possible for Dorkbot is one of them. Come along to the BotLab AGM on Thursday 16th Feb to […]
Yesterday the lab was graced by a visit from Tarim of Bristol Hackspace. While he was here, Tarim told of about Illuminate Bath 2012. Illuminate Bath runs from Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th January 2012, bringing beautiful and engaging projected artworks to the city centre. Banishing the gloom of January’s long evenings, this ‘festival of […]
Our neighbours over the road at BV Studios are holding an open studios event starting on Friday 14th October from 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm and continuing on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm. Entry is free! BV Studios also houses our friends at Bristol Hackspace, who’ve now written to […]
The Register reports that secondary school pupils could be taught coding, programming and how to write their own software at GCSE level as part of a major overhaul of the IT curriculum for UK schools. An initial trial will involve 100 pupils at 4 schools (Manchester Grammar, Bradfield College, Reading, Park House School, Newbury, and […]
Bristol Hackspace has written to us to let us know they’re kicking off their INCUBE8 series this Thursday evening (that’s tonight! Ed.) with The Mad Hackers Tea Party! In Bristol Hackspace’s own words: “Mad Hackers Tea Party is an exhibition of some of the bizarre devices Bristol Hackspace has constructed over the past few years. […]
John Honniball has today written to the BBLUG list with a reminder about tonight’s Dorkbot, as follows: A reminder for those who’d like to find out more about the goings-on at Dorkbot Bristol, that we’re meeting on Tuesday evening, 16th August, from 7pm, at the Pervasive Media Studio. This is above the Firehouse Pizzaria on […]
Our friends at Bristol Hackspace are organising a beginners’ Arduino programming workshop on Saturday and Sunday 30th/31st July 2011 at the Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio (map). By the end of the weekend participants should be able to: Make LEDs light up in different colours and patterns; Detect switches, light/dark, touch; Make sounds drive motors and […]
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, let us know below in the comments. 🙂 More details on Bristol Dorkbot.
Yesterday the Gnome Project announced that the GNOME 3.0 release (as used in the latest Ubuntu release, now imminent, codenamed ‘Natty Narwhal’. Ed.) has attracted far more contributions from women than any previous GNOME release. This results largely from the hard work of the first round of the Outreach Programme for Women interns, who took […]
From Bristol24-7 comes news that will gladden the hearts of Dorkbotters, the Bristol Hackspace crew, anyone else interested in doing strange things with electricity and technology, plus football fans with a bent for the cybernetic: next year Bristol will play host to the world’s most advanced autonomous robots competing against each other and the expertise […]
I was going to start this post with the words ‘In the wee small hours I was listening to the wireless and a man came on doing Stephen Hilton impressions’, but, after some consideration, thought better of it. 😉 This week’s broadcast of the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme featured reporter Tracey Logan in […]
Computer World UK reports that a survey of wifi networks around NHS Trust hospitals in the United Kingdom has found that fewer than 1 in 5 secure data connections using encryption. Worse than that, over half have not changed the manufacturer’s default wifi access point settings, potentially making them easy targets for anyone with malicious […]
Over at Connecting Bristol, a forthcoming event has been announced for the end of the month. Entitled “Apps for Communities”, it will be held at the Council House, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TR (map) on 28th and 29th January 2011. It is being jointly hosted by Bristol City Council, Local by Social and the Connecting […]
Following on from the release of government data earlier this week (news passim), comes an announcement that Young Rewired State will be taking place again this year from 2nd to 6th August at various places around the country. Young Rewired State is a hack week for young developers across the UK to go and build […]
Yesterday John Honniball emailed a reminder for the Bristol Dorkbot (tagline: “People doing strange things with electricity”. Ed.) event, taking place this coming Tuesday, 20th April. John writes: A reminder about the next Dorkbot Bristol meeting at the Pervasive Media Studio (map). It’ll be on the 20th April at 7pm until about 10pm. It’s a […]
Yesterday news was received from Bristol Wireless Chair Pete Ferne on the future of the Hackspace room in Hamilton House. Pete wrote: For those of you who came along to the meeting in the Hackspace last Tuesday, just a quick note to clarify what is happening with the room at Hamilton House. As you may […]