MitchTripUK Apr May 2013
Mitch's UK (and NYC) Workshop Tour -- 10-Apr-2013 to 13-May-2013
Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers are giving a Workshop Tour of the UK!
-- 24-April through 13-May
April-2013
Date | venue | time | event type | contact |
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Wed, 10-Apr | leave SFO for EWR flight # UA800 ----- pick up rental car and drive to Karen & Larry's |
10:00am arrive 6:30pm ----- night |
Karen & Larry | |
Thurs, 11-Apr | Triptic Soul performance at The Knitting Factory | 9:00pm | performance -- photos | Karen |
Fri, 12-Apr | drive to Wall, NJ ----- Re-charge TV-B-Gone Pro batteries |
. . Tom | ||
Sat, 13-Apr | Re-charge TV-B-Gone Pro batteries | Tom | ||
Sun, 14-Apr | Re-charge TV-B-Gone Pro batteries stay in Philly |
Tom Steven & Leah | ||
Mon, 15-Apr | Re-charge TV-B-Gone Pro batteries stay in Philly |
photos of re-charging | Tom Steven & Leah | |
Tues, 16-Apr | drive back to NYC and drop off rental car |
. Robert | ||
Wed, 17-Apr | ||||
Thurs, 18-Apr | . Weird Science at Jack Hanley Gallery |
. art show |
Scott Kal | |
Fri, 19-Apr | ||||
Sat, 20-Apr | ||||
Sun, 21-Apr | ||||
Mon, 22-Apr | ||||
Tues, 23-Apr | leave JFK for IAD flight # UA5714 ----- leave IAD for LHR flight # UA924 |
leave 7:30pm arrive 8:50pm ----- leave 9:50pm |
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Wed, 24-Apr | arrive LHR ----- tube, train, bus to Glen & Christine's |
arrive 10:15am ----- afternoon |
"Piccadilly line train to Hammersmith. Change to District line train from the same platform to Victoria. Take the train to Gipsy Hill or Crystal Palace (probably from platform 10). Walk up hill, when you run out of up you're there." | . . Glen |
Thurs, 25-Apr | leave London Kings Cross for Newcastle train # GR468000 ----- check into County By Thistle hotel |
leave 7:30pm arrive 10:41pm ----- late night |
. . . Graham | |
Fri, 26-Apr | UK Maker Faire setup | all day | Graham | |
Sat, 27-Apr | UK Maker Faire Day 1, Newcastle . |
all day ? . |
solder workshop talk: "Make A Living Doing What You Love" |
Graham |
Sun, 28-Apr | UK Maker Faire Day 2, Newcastle | all day ? |
solder workshop talk: "The Hackerspace Movement" |
Graham |
Mon, 29-Apr | train to meet Pat | Pat | ||
Tues, 30-Apr | check out of County By Thistle hotel ----- leave Newcastle for Manchester train # TP508400 ----- ride to Rachael & Asa's |
noon ----- leave 2:18pm arrive 4:49pm ----- . |
. . . . . Asa |
May-2013
Date | venue | time | event type | contact |
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Wed, 1-May | Rachael | |||
Thurs, 2-May | Rachael | |||
Fri, 3-May | Madlab, Manchester | 1:00pm to 4:00pm | solder workshop | Rachael |
Sat, 4-May | Ye Olde Hacke Weekend ----- leave Manchester for London train # VT791700 ----- tube, train, bus to Glen & Christine's |
afternoon ----- leave 7:35pm arrive 10:00pm ----- . |
workshop using Victorian materials . . . . . |
Rachael . . . . Glen |
Sun, 5-May | Electromagnetic Wave, London | all day | solder workshop on a boat! | Jonty |
Mon, 6-May | ||||
Tues, 7-May | ||||
Wed, 8-May | leave London for Bristol Temple Meades train # GW310300 |
leave 4:00pm arrive 5:41pm |
Barney | |
Thurs, 9-May | Bristol Hackspace Social, Bristol | 7:00pm | Tarim | |
Fri, 10-May | Pervasive Studio Lunchtime Talk |
1:00pm to 2:00pm | talk: "Hackerspaces, and the Pluses and Minuses of Technology" |
Verity |
Sat, 11-May | Bristol Hackspace, Bristol ----- leave Bristol for Southampton train # GW843200 ----- leave Southampton for Brighton train # SN804700 ----- taxi to Theresa's |
12:00pm to 3:00pm ----- leave 6:22pm arrive 8:02pm ----- leave 8:33pm arrive 10:21pm . late night |
solder workshop . . . . . . . . |
Tarim . . . . . Anna . Theresa |
Sun, 12-May | BuildBrighton, Brighton ----- Dinner with BuildBrighton ----- leave Brighton for London train # SN887500 ----- Check in to Holiday Inn Heathrow |
12:00pm to 3:00pm ----- 7:00pm to 10:00pm ----- leave 11:05pm arrive 12:39am ----- late night |
solder workshop . . . . . . . |
Anna . . . . . . . |
Mon, 13-May | leave LHR for SFO, flight # UA955 . |
leave 10:35am , arrive 1:25pm . |
The workshop that Mitch & Jimmie is giving on this Workshop Tour:
Variety of Cool Kits
Who: All ages, all skill levels! -- Anyone and everyone can learn to solder and make cool things with electronics!
Workshop timing: About 3 hours for the workshop, 2 hours setup time before the workshop, 1 hour cleanup after the workshop.
Cost: Kit prices range from £10 to £25 (see below for kits and prices).
More Info (This workshop is similar to what Mitch does every Monday when in home at Noisebridge, in San Francisco):
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Mondays
Kits!
Kits and other items that Mitch & Jimmie will have available on this Workshop Tour
(Mitch & Jimmie will bring these, or ship them ahead to you.):
price | name | description |
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£15 | TV-B-Gone keychain | turn off TVs in public places! |
£15 | TV-B-Gone kit | turn off TVs in public places at 50 meters away! |
£20 | TV-B-Gone Pro | turn off TVs in public places at 100 meters away! |
£15 | Brain Machine kit | Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out! |
£10 | TripGlasses | Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out! |
£20 | Mignonette Game kit | make your own handheld game console! |
£10 for one £15 for two |
Trippy RGB Waves kit | interactive blinky lights! |
£15 | LEDcube kit | animated 3D cube! |
£15 | HELLO Name Badge kit | Wear your name in lights! |
£15 | MiniPOV kit | write messages in the air! |
£15 | MintyBoost kit | charge your USB enabled gadgets! |
£15 | BoArduino kit | make your own fully functional Arduino -- for solderless breadboards! |
£15 | Diavolino kit | make your own shield-compatible Arduino! |
£15 | programming and communications cable (FTDI Friend) | program your Arduino clone with Windows, MacOS, or Linux! |
£15 | Open Heart kit | animate fun patterns in the shape of a heart! |
£20 | LoL Shield kit | Lots of LEDs! for your Arduino! |
£15 | Drawdio kit | make noise by drawing lines with this pencil! |
£20 | Atari Punk Console kit | Cool music synthesizer! |
£15 | microcontroller programmer kit (USBtinyISP) | program all your AVR family chips! |
£5 | Hackerspace Passport | Visit hackerspaces around the world, and get stamps! |
More info on many of these projects:
- http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com (click on the "maker faire" tab)
- http://www.adafruit.com
- http://www.jimmieprodgers.com
- http://www.mignonette-game.com
- http://www.evilmadscientist.com
- http://www.analogmachines.com
Requirements of the hosting spaces for Mitch & Jimmie's workshops
Mitch & Jimmie will have all of the kits with them (or ship them ahead). There is no need for anyone to purchase kits from Mitch or Jimmie in advance.
Each space will need to provide the following to have a successful workshop:
- For each participant:
- 1 soldering iron, 15W to 40W
- 1 soldering iron stand
- 1 cellulose (not plastic) sponge (for cleaning the soldering iron tip)
- 1 small wire cutter (similar to 10cm wire cutters)
- 1 or 2 AC outlets (with extension cords and/or AC power strips to make things work)
- 1 chair
- table space
- enough lighting so that people can see small things while soldering
- Each space will also need to have:
- 1 roll of good, thin, 60/40 (Sn/Pb), rosin core solder (similar to 0.81mm diameter solder with lead)
- 1 hot glue gun
- hot glue sticks that fit in the hot glue gun
- 1 small needle nose pliers (similar to 10cm needle nose pliers)
- tip tinner (similar to this)
- 1 wire strippers (similar to adjustable wire stipper)
- 1 solder sucker (similar to this)
- 1 roll solder wick (similar to 2mm wide)
- 1 paper scissors
- a pile of alkaline AA batteries
It would also be nice to have printouts of the "Soldering Is Easy!" comic book available (in the language of your choice):
http://mightyohm.com/soldercomic
All of the above are good to have at your space so that you can continue to have soldering workshops long into the future.
Please use this as opportunity for your hackerspace!
- Please have a Donation Box at the workshop!
- Please feel free to have your space's T-shirts and other items available for sale.
- Please have your space's stickers and your space's Hackerspace Passport Stamp available!
- Please publicize -- attract cool new enthusiastic people to your space!
- Please feel free to use this as a fund-raiser for your space (there is no charge for Mitch & Jimmie).
Publicity
Please publicize your workshop! This is an opportunity for people in the community to learn some cool stuff. It is also an opportunity to draw more cool geeks to your hackerspace.
My instruction is always free. I only ask that I get reimbursed for cost of the kits.
But feel free to use this as a fund-raiser for you space. And in any case, be sure to have a Donation Box for your space available during the workshops.
Also, please have a Hackerspace Passport Stamp ready, and Stickers to hand out, and T-shirts to sell.
Here are some links to publicity from past workshops -- feel free to copy from these:
NYC Resistor
ALTspace
Metalab
AlphaOne Labs
brmlab
post from brmlab
NESIT
HeatSync Labs
Makerspace Urbana
Pumping Station: One
BuildBrighton