oshug May 2012

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OSHCamp 2012 planning.
by Andrew Back 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hello, As many of you know the plan is to hold this year's OSHCamp in the north of England in Hebden Bridge, which is a pretty town (I might be biased!) in the foothills of the Pennines and roughly half way between Leeds and Manchester and easily accessible (<1 hour by train) from both. It will also be a two day event and will take place over a weekend, with provisional dates of 15th & 16th September. I've uploaded a few photos of the venue to Flickr (more/better ones to be uploaded in due course): http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrierdetect/7234510996/in/set-72157629815372… The venue also has a hostel on the site and I'll see if any sort of group booking deal can be arranged. http://www.hebdenbridgehostel.co.uk/ Of course there also hotels and guests houses, or should you wish you could even hire a canal boat. http://www.bronteboathire.co.uk/ Although this might be a bit of a waste if you're only returning to sleep on it... I think the plan will be to host talks on the Saturday, with hands-on sessions on the Sunday. But obviously I'm keen to hear any suggestions that people might have as to the structure, as well as themes and talk topics. And as always, offers to present or run a workshop are most welcome. Discuss here or e-mail me direct — whichever suits. I'll provide updates to this list as and when plans develop. Best, Andrew

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open source airborne wind generator
by Rod Read 18 May '12

18 May '12

I've got a fancy kite design. It's proving to be pretty useful. I've done loads of online research and would like to give something back with the design being Open Source. Cern license the best one for me? Rod Read http://kitepowercoop.org http://www.youtube.com/user/roddyread <http://www.roddys-photos.com>roderickread (skype)

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OSHUG #19 — Kits (Homesense, Quick2Wire), Thursday 31st May 2012.
by Andrew Back 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hello, Registration for OSHUG #19 is now open, details below. Best, Andrew // OSHUG #19 — Kits (Homesense, Quick2Wire) 31st May 2012, 18:00 - 20:00 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG, [map] (51.529049, -0.116436) Sponsored by DesignSpark: http://www.designspark.com/ — Registration: http://oshug.org/event/19 For those that are new to hardware development it can prove a daunting prospect, and kits that address the needs of those with little or no experience in this area have a vital role to play. At the nineteenth OSHUG meeting we will be hearing about two such kits, one that was designed to support user-led smart home innovation and that was based around the Arduino platform, and an experimenters kit for the Raspberry Pi that is currently in development. - The Homesense Project The Homesense project was a European user-led, smart-home development project employing open source hardware. The project was led by Tinker London and EDF and engaged households supported by local experts in the design and development of smart home concepts. The project was developed as a reaction to top-down design approaches commonly observed in technological development and home building. Most early research viewed smart homes as a single complex system that is designed and constructed from the ground up, and assumes that most aspects (physical building, digital infrastructure, furniture, appliances) are under the control of a single smart-home developer. (Kortuem et al. 2010) In the contrasting reality however of multi-vendor development and retrofitting this is rarely the case. Inspired also by an argument that smart homes are developed by experts in a top down approach subsequently living with a smart home is acknowledged to be problematic to non-experts who lack control over respective technologies. The Homesense project was therefore designed to enable user-led innovation within the home environment, building alongside existing environmental and social conditions allowing end-users to address their own concerns in their physical and ‘lived in’ space. Homesense sought to bring the open collaboration methods of online communities to physical infrastructures in the home. Designing a toolkit to support this approach is explored as a topic of this presentation. Natasha Carolan is a PhD student at HighWire Doctoral Training Centre, Lancaster University where her research considers commodification of design and production processes in the digital economy. A product designer by background, her research explores open and user innovation, service design and value co-creation in areas of NPD and manufacturing. Natasha co-designed the Homesense toolkit by situating the toolkit as a cultural probe a strategy that Natasha believes is important in placing open source hardware in a democratic system as a tool for learning and empowerment. - Quick2Wire Quick2Wire Limited is a start-up that is developing a range of OSH/OSS add-on products for the Raspberry Pi. The first product is an experimenter's kit, contaning an expansion board, a set of components with which to experiment, software to drive the Pi, and an instruction manual. This will be followed by a series of expansion kits, using I2C and SPI to add capabilities like ADC, DAC, PWM and stepper motor drivers. All the hardware and software will be released under open source licences. The presentation will conclude with a demonstration using hardware prototypes driven by a Raspberry Pi. Romilly Cocking spent the ten years before his 'retirement' as an agile software developer, coach and trainer. He spent the first two years of retirement experimenting with robotics. Then Raspberry Pi came along, and now Romilly works full-time running Quick2Wire. Note: Please aim to arrive for 18:00 - 18:20 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. — Registration: http://oshug.org/event/19

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MusicTechFest 17-19 May in London
by Nils Hitze 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi there, i am new to this group (and based in Munich, Germany not London) but nevertheless a friend of mine is organizing an event in London that you might find interesting: http://www.musictechfest.org/#register A three day, free Music Hack Day/TechFest. Be fast, there might still be some tickets left Kind Regards Nils -- Nils Hitze Email: nhitze(a)gmail.com Mobil: +49 179 9429701 Blog: silberkind.de <http://www.silberkind.de> G+: silberkind.de/+ Twitter: @kojote <http://twitter.com/kojote>

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Wikipedia entry for OSHUG
by Jeremy Bennett 04 May '12

04 May '12

I have created a stub Wikipedia entry for OSHUG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSHUG Perhaps others would like to expand this. More information on the origins, and a list of meetings would be useful. Best wishes, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com

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