I am pleased to announce that we have a special guest speaker of Cefn Hoile from Shrimping It http://shrimping.it/ for this Saturday's HFD 2014 in Manchester.
The scheduled items so far are:
* Talk on the whole subject of Free Hardware. - Presented by Michael Dorrington, Manchester Free Software.
* Talk/demo that will start with orientation on Arduino, then move onto the Shrimp and then onto people's Shrimp remixes. - Presented by Cefn Hoile, Shrimping It.
* Tour of Fab Lab Manchester.
There is also the opportunity for Free Hardware discussion.
See the HFD 2014 in Manchester wiki page for more information: http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester
Regards, Mike.
On 03/03/14 21:22, Michael Dorrington wrote:
Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.
Event: Hardware Freedom Day 2014 in Manchester http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester
Date: Saturday, 15th March 2014
Start time: 14:00
Finish time: 17:00
Location: Fab Lab Manchester
Address: Chips, 2 Lampwick Lane, New Islington, Manchester, M4 6BU.
- "(for sat nav use M4 6EE)"
- http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.48140/-2.22107
Details
Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) is an annual world wide celebration of Free Hardware with the aim of promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This year the event lands on Saturday, 15th March. You can see the teams around the world that will be participating on the HFD 2014 Events Map http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2014. This includes Manchester, UK!
The event will be a chance to discuss, show and see Free Hardware. The following topics are for discussion (but other Hardware Freedom topics are welcome):
- The anti-Free Hardware Restricted Boot (aka Secure Boot)
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
- Novena http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
- Arduino http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
- Openmoko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko
- GTA04 by Golden Delicious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko#Golden_Delicious_GTA04_board
- XiVO http://blog.xivo.fr/
- Pandora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%28console%29
- Ben NanoNote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
- Crypto Stick https://www.crypto-stick.com/
- miniCNC http://www.repairablemachines.com/introduction.html
- OH&A http://www.ohanda.org/
- OSHUG http://oshug.org/
If you have a device/design that gives the 4 Freedoms of Free Software as applied to a device/design and would like to tell others about it then please give a talk/demo at this event. If you are going to do a talk/demo then preferably send an email letting us know to: fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org
The event will end with a tour of Fab Lab.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Location
Fab Lab Manchester is a great location for HFD, more information at: http://www.fablabmanchester.org/about-us
Parking
There is cheap paid parking on site.
Public Transport
The New Islington Metrolink Station http://www.metrolink.co.uk/stationinfo/Pages/New-Islington.aspx is nearby.
More Information
More information available at: http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester
Regards, Mike.