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| + | |7 January 2016 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/NXetncl3MGc/TXilyg6rAgAJ Talk: Putting Code Club in Your New Year Plans!]] | ||
| + | |On 7th Jan, Tim Wilson, our new regional co-ordinator for Code Club will talk to us at 7pm - the title he has suggested is "Putting Code Club in your New Year plans!" Code Club is now part of the Raspberry Pi foundation, so it will be interesting to find out what effect this merge has had on Code Club's plans. Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested: in particular potential volunteers and primary teachers, as well as existing volunteers who'd like to meet their local co-ordinator. | ||
| + | |Tim Wilson, Peter L. | ||
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| + | |17 September 2015 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/QHh6_ORoOBQ/3L23w5xzCwAJ, Group Project: Transforming Simon the Skeleton into a Robot, Part 1]] | ||
| + | |This is an ongoing project. Simon the skeleton has lived at Science Oxford for a bit. His joints need minor repair and he needs his skull re-attaching. Once he's feeling better, he can then be donated to a school. I offered to help with this, which is why there's a skeleton model in the new space. [...] Executive summary: yes we can animate Simon's jaw and skull. I also like the idea of LEDs (blue?) in his eye sockets. If we can do some of this by the time of SO's Halloween themed workshops next month, so much the better. [...] If we have to make a part for the skull, let's try to leave enough space for a small breadboard and an Arduino Nano inside and make a swivel than can be servo operated, so he can turn to glare at terrified children. I don't suppose anyone can equip him with a hooded cloak and maybe a scythe or hourglass? | ||
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|If anyone has any remaining energy to work on this project, finishing off whatever we were doing in the warehouse previously and/or working on the next part up the stack (the shoulders and gun/plunger mounting boxes, which are complicated) or possibly the bit above that (the neck area) depending on how everyone's feeling at that point. | |If anyone has any remaining energy to work on this project, finishing off whatever we were doing in the warehouse previously and/or working on the next part up the stack (the shoulders and gun/plunger mounting boxes, which are complicated) or possibly the bit above that (the neck area) depending on how everyone's feeling at that point. | ||
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| + | |1 October 2014 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/DPBQhlEuem0/NEOkXuQTa-kJ Microcontroller Night] | ||
| + | |Microcontrollers, Electric Imp, flood network sensors, fancy free beer and pizza. | ||
| + | |Nick K. | ||
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| + | |10 September 2014 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/cIuQ9VwlSyc/1VRSjmyOI1oJ Microcontroller Night] | ||
| + | |We'll be having another microcontroller night on Wednesday. Everyone is welcome to drop in, try out programming microcontrollers like arduinos, etc. or to bring any projects they are working on. Participants will be hacking a robot arm and a wheelchair controller. | ||
| + | |Nick K. | ||
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| + | |13 August 2014 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/tYXOZNmqZ2w/DGfmXxCrUDUJ Microcontroller Night] | ||
| + | |Everyone is welcome to drop by on Wednesday night for a microcontroller night. There'll be some arduinos, mbeds and components for people to play/learn with. Bring along any microcontroller/FPGA/embedded system projects you are working on. | ||
| + | |Nick K. | ||
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| + | |30 July 2014 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/_GWzUsTMbWM/sK4MFdgz-EgJ Microcontroller Night] | ||
| + | |Everyone is welcome to drop by on Wednesday night for a microcontroller night. There'll be some arduinos, mbeds and components for people to play/learn with. Bring along any microcontroller/FPGA/embedded system projects you are working on. | ||
| + | |Nick K. | ||
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| + | |1 July 2014 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/FxKdzeIXGxQ/YkOt-kiw3xgJ Microcontroller Night] | ||
| + | |Microcontrollers are simple, generally cheap microchips that allow you to control electronic components by writing software. In recent years learning how to use them has become a lot easier, mostly due to the arduino development board that does a lot of the hard work for you, letting you concentrate on making something fun. | ||
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| + | We're going to have a second microcontroller night at the hackspace tomorrow. If you are working on any microcontroller projects or are interested in doing so then come along. I'll try to arrange to have some development boards (probably arduinos or mbeds) and some components available if anyone new to microcontrollers wants to try using them. | ||
| + | |Nick K. | ||
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| + | |17 June 2014 | ||
| + | |[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/oxford-hackspace/fj9ecnB51sI/_f48GFK1GO4J Microcontroller Night] | ||
| + | |Microcontrollers are simple, generally cheap microchips that allow you to control electronic components by writing software. In recent years learning how to use them has become a lot easier, mostly due to the arduino development board that does a lot of the hard work for you, letting you concentrate on making something fun. If you are working on any microcontroller projects or are interested in doing so then come along. I'll try to arrange to have some development boards (probably arduinos or mbeds) and some components available if anyone new to microcontrollers wants to try using them. | ||
| + | |Nick K. | ||
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Revision as of 00:42, 9 January 2016
| Date | Event Name | Description | Run By |
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| 7 January 2016 | Talk: Putting Code Club in Your New Year Plans!] | On 7th Jan, Tim Wilson, our new regional co-ordinator for Code Club will talk to us at 7pm - the title he has suggested is "Putting Code Club in your New Year plans!" Code Club is now part of the Raspberry Pi foundation, so it will be interesting to find out what effect this merge has had on Code Club's plans. Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested: in particular potential volunteers and primary teachers, as well as existing volunteers who'd like to meet their local co-ordinator. | Tim Wilson, Peter L. |
| 17 September 2015 | Group Project: Transforming Simon the Skeleton into a Robot, Part 1] | This is an ongoing project. Simon the skeleton has lived at Science Oxford for a bit. His joints need minor repair and he needs his skull re-attaching. Once he's feeling better, he can then be donated to a school. I offered to help with this, which is why there's a skeleton model in the new space. [...] Executive summary: yes we can animate Simon's jaw and skull. I also like the idea of LEDs (blue?) in his eye sockets. If we can do some of this by the time of SO's Halloween themed workshops next month, so much the better. [...] If we have to make a part for the skull, let's try to leave enough space for a small breadboard and an Arduino Nano inside and make a swivel than can be servo operated, so he can turn to glare at terrified children. I don't suppose anyone can equip him with a hooded cloak and maybe a scythe or hourglass? | Peter L., Paul M. |
| ??? | Light Painting, Part 1 | This workshop saw various members create long-exposure light painting sticks from arduino nanos and programmable RGB LEDs. | Tim S. & Hugh |
| ??? | Light Painting 2, Part 2 | In this workshop, participants used light-painting sticks created in the previous workshop, as well as lasers and other light effects to create and photograph ephemeral light grafitti and other light art. The Oxford Times sent a photographer to this event after we advertised it on Daily Info, and a photo of one of the two people running it made the front page of the Oxford Times. | Tim S. & Hugh |
| ??? | EMF 2014 | OxHack brought many members and projects out to the Electromagnetic Field 2014 hacking festival, producing a night of chiptune music, assembling a 3D printer in a field, and inventing trebuchet cricket, as well as building and contributing a 8-foot-tall, upholstered red letter 'M' for the festival's hillside sign. | Lauren, Paul M., Jane; ~20 people attended |
| ??? | Oxfordshire Artweeks 2014 | OxHack moved into the main warehouse space at OVADA for the weekend during Oxfordshire Artweeks 2014, and taught a number of members of the public to solder, assembled a giant Heath Robinson contraption, and made copious 3doodles with the newly-acquired 3doodler. | Neil, Nathan, Lauren |
| 13 November 2014 | Introduction to CSS | An introductory talk, initially an introduction to CSS itself followed by an introduction to CSS layout. Not venturing into elite CSS trickery, CSS frameworks, or other Dark Arts.
This will be everyday CSS from a journeyman CSS author and geek-of-all-web-trades. Slides at http://tinyurl.com/css-primer. |
Jenny |
| 14 November 2015 | Ada Lovelace Hackathon 2015 | Celebrate Ada Lovelace’s 200th birthday in style by joining the Ada Lovelace hackathon! We’ll be using the equipment and expertise of the Oxford Hackspace to create new physical computing projects, inspired by her works. We’ll have access to 3D printing, laser cutting, electronics, CNC machines, and much more.
Projects suggested so far include:
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Beth M., Lauren, Phil B.; ~60 people attended |
| 15-16 November 2014 | Group Project: RC Dalek-Building, Part 1 | In the warehouse, doing physical construction. Aim: to wind up with the fender section and the skirt section (the bit covered in the hemispheres) constructed (though, probably without the hemispheres attached), and to have built the means of attaching these two pieces to the wheelchair itself - most likely each will be split vertically to allow the whole shebang to fit into my car! I've already done some bits of cutting out, and will bring (in addition to the chair, charger, and materials) down my jigsaw, drill and driver, and assorted other measuring, marking, smoothing, filling, and cutting tools as appropriate. Ideally we would be looking at sealing the finished parts before we're done (using watered down PVA) as I understand them to be prone to warping if un-sealed, especially as they're to be stored in a fairly damp bin-store. | Phil B. |
| 21-22 November 2014 | Group Project: RC Dalek-Building, Part 2 (as part of Make:Shift:Do 2014) | Esther has been working on the voice modulator, so hopefully we'll be in a position to finish that off and test it out, possibly even to see about connecting it up to Festival and enabling it to read twitter. Additionally, I'm hoping we'll be able to look at either some 3d printing of parts, if one of the printers can be persuaded to work reliably enough to make the bulk of a part (which can subsequently be sanded down and filled to final shape) and/or some work on remote control, though I need to do some research on how that should work. Alternatively there are a bunch of smaller-scale parts which we could work on during these couple of days. Or possibly, we could look at getting a bit messy (I'll bring dust sheets!) and papier macheing the dome, assuming I've worked out a way to make the form by that point! (most likely at this stage either pepakura or a set of MDF/plywood ribs). Voice modulation here. |
Phil B. |
| 29-30 November 2014 | Group Project: RC Dalek-Building, Part 3 | If anyone has any remaining energy to work on this project, finishing off whatever we were doing in the warehouse previously and/or working on the next part up the stack (the shoulders and gun/plunger mounting boxes, which are complicated) or possibly the bit above that (the neck area) depending on how everyone's feeling at that point. | Phil B. |
| 1 October 2014 | Microcontroller Night | Microcontrollers, Electric Imp, flood network sensors, fancy free beer and pizza. | Nick K. |
| 10 September 2014 | Microcontroller Night | We'll be having another microcontroller night on Wednesday. Everyone is welcome to drop in, try out programming microcontrollers like arduinos, etc. or to bring any projects they are working on. Participants will be hacking a robot arm and a wheelchair controller. | Nick K. |
| 13 August 2014 | Microcontroller Night | Everyone is welcome to drop by on Wednesday night for a microcontroller night. There'll be some arduinos, mbeds and components for people to play/learn with. Bring along any microcontroller/FPGA/embedded system projects you are working on. | Nick K. |
| 30 July 2014 | Microcontroller Night | Everyone is welcome to drop by on Wednesday night for a microcontroller night. There'll be some arduinos, mbeds and components for people to play/learn with. Bring along any microcontroller/FPGA/embedded system projects you are working on. | Nick K. |
| 1 July 2014 | Microcontroller Night | Microcontrollers are simple, generally cheap microchips that allow you to control electronic components by writing software. In recent years learning how to use them has become a lot easier, mostly due to the arduino development board that does a lot of the hard work for you, letting you concentrate on making something fun.
We're going to have a second microcontroller night at the hackspace tomorrow. If you are working on any microcontroller projects or are interested in doing so then come along. I'll try to arrange to have some development boards (probably arduinos or mbeds) and some components available if anyone new to microcontrollers wants to try using them. |
Nick K. |
| 17 June 2014 | Microcontroller Night | Microcontrollers are simple, generally cheap microchips that allow you to control electronic components by writing software. In recent years learning how to use them has become a lot easier, mostly due to the arduino development board that does a lot of the hard work for you, letting you concentrate on making something fun. If you are working on any microcontroller projects or are interested in doing so then come along. I'll try to arrange to have some development boards (probably arduinos or mbeds) and some components available if anyone new to microcontrollers wants to try using them. | Nick K. |
