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Cake Orchestra (with additional percussion) from nikkipugh on Vimeo.
Its still early days for me in my move back to Birmingham since starting at Screen WM, so I’m keen to get out and about to see what geeky fun is to be had in the Second city and last night I popped along to fizzPOP in ‘Digital’ Digbeth.
FizzPOP in its own words is “a group of people with a wide range of skills and interests, bound by a common interest in tinkering with stuff to make something new. It’s a hackerspace.” this intro combined with videos (see above) of cake orchestras, knowledge of soldering and ‘Arduino’ (which I need to get my head around if I am ever actually going to build myself a Meggy Jr) was more than enough to get me along yesterday eve.
Although I have NOOOO techy or DIY skills I was warmly welcomed and in no time was soldering and data bending c/o the guys there. So anyone else interested in tinkering and hacking with tech in the midlands area should definitely get down to the next meet up in 2 weeks and I most certainly will.
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Yay! Glad you enjoyed it! You should take a look at this thread on the mailing list – We’re looking for people to showcase any of their hacks
Thanks for the link, looks like theres a lot of interesting stuff going on. Definitely will be heading down on the 4th although I think hacking something before I showcase it would be a good place to start.
I’m not sure we can allow you back until you make good on your “hacking Birmingham” title.
Meggy Jr as a prototype for tweaking Selfridges?
Yes Nikki, most definitely will be learning how to hook up Meggy Jr to Selfridges- always good to start of with something small, before moving onto say, the bullring!