From dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org Mon May 18 13:20:57 2009 From: dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org (dorkbotbristol-announce@dorkbot.org) Date: Mon May 18 13:21:08 2009 Subject: [dorkbotbristol] The Darling LEDs of May: Dorkbot Tuesday 19th May 7PM till 10PM Message-ID: <9a2dd6cf0905181020t319c2a40v7326ebd58aa30351@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, Short notice as usual, but very pleased to announce that the next Dorkbot Bristol encounter will take place at our usual home of the Pervasive Media Studio, Anchor Square, Bristol on Tuesday 19th May 2009, starting 7pm and running right up to 10pm. An ?open dork? with invited guests as well, bring something to share or something to show or just yourself to watch and take part in open discussion. Drinks available for a donation as per usual. http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotbristol/?p=135 Please sign up to the event here: http://dorkbotbristol.eventbrite.com/ We have a mixed bag for you this month as usual, so turn up and get involved in the mix in the bag. We have the new Dorkbot Bristol Summer 2009 flyer in as an A4 poster or an A6 flyer available for download down. So why not print it out and get posting it around your work, home, university, laboratory or favourite hovel? A4: http://tinyurl.com/o2nu5k A6: http://tinyurl.com/qmng7a Remember those future Dorkbot dates for your diary: Tuesday 16th June and Tuesday 21st July both at the PMS. Dorking you into the summer. Looking forward to it and to seeing you all tomorrow. Dorkbotically yours, Mike, Rachel and the rest of the Dorkbot Bristol team. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotbristol-announce/attachments/20090518/893a3574/attachment.html From dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org Tue May 26 17:00:40 2009 From: dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org (dorkbotbristol-announce@dorkbot.org) Date: Tue May 26 17:00:56 2009 Subject: [dorkbotbristol] What did we dork in May Message-ID: <9a2dd6cf0905261400l262f4d79v317aba309147c313@mail.gmail.com> Hi Everyone, It's taken me a week to get around to writing this email, the follow-up to last Tuesday's event. Firstly I'd like to say a big thanks to everyone who came and especially to everyone of you that showed something and made it another excellent Dorkbot Bristol meeting. As promised here's a follow-up list of links from the night: 1. Phil Phelp's Tape Copy Loop: Phil's web site: http://www.zenpho.co.uk/ 2. Richard Sewell: OBD and Fun Fly Stick Richard told us about the OBD-II vehicle diagnostics system, what hardware one needs and how the software works, and what programmes are available: Richard's web site: http://jarkman.co.uk/ A helpful Wikipedia summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obdii#OBD-II The pod I was showing (which comes with closed-source software): http://obdkey.com/ An Arduino ODB project: http://code.google.com/p/opengauge/wiki/OBDuino Carman, a free OBD-II app for the Nokia tablets: http://openbossa.indt.org/carman/ Freediag, an open-source OBD-II diagnostics app: http://freediag.sourceforge.net/ A sample list of fault codes: http://www.nology.com/OBD2FaultCodes.htm Helpful forums and code lists for specific cars: http://www.obd-codes.com/ Cheap OBD II cables on eBay: http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1311&_nkw=obd+cable&_sacat=See-All-Categories Fun Fly Stick: He also showed us the amazing Fun Fly Stick: http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/FunFlyStick.html 3. David B: Electric Grafitti David B present his idea for the July Dorkbot special as a live street hack of Anchor Square with a display of some electric grafitti. This idea was well received and many are up for taking part. 4. Amias/Richard H/David H: Hackspace Bristol An update on the proposal for a Hackspace in Bristol and an update on Bristol Wireless' involvement: Hackspace Foundation: http://hackspace.org.uk/ Bristol Hackspace Mailing List: http://lists.psand.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hackspacebristol Bristol Wireless: http://www.bristolwireless.net 5. Luke Jerram: Retaining to Dorkbot Bristol a year on, Luke told us about the Dream Director project and also gave us a progress update on the Street Pianos project: Dream Director: http://lukejerram.com/projects/dream_director Street Pianos: http://streetpianos.com/ 6. Mike H: HacktionLab Mike gave an extremely brief outline of HacktionLab and reminded us that it is taking place between the 11th and 14th June: HacktionLab website: http://hacktivista.net/hacktionlab/ HacktionLab mailing list: http://lists.psand.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab 7. Mark S: Mobile sound system Mark showed us his mobile sound system in a rucksack. No links but here's Mark's web site with his audio streaming project, which he'll be presenting at a future Dorkbot: http://www.womagrid.com/ 8. Amias: Tenori-On Finally Amias showed us the delights of Yamaha's Tenori-On: http://tenori-on.yamaha-europe.com/uk/ That's all folks. We'll be in touch with the next Dorkbot in June (on the 19th) shortly. Cheers, Mike. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotbristol-announce/attachments/20090526/985d9f96/attachment.html