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The next Geek Cluster is at the Otley pub, Treforest, Wales on Friday 10th September 2010.
http://www.otleyltd.co.uk/otleyarms.html
All welcome. Attend!
Bring homemade musical instruments, hacks, projects and stuff to show. Wear geek t-shirts.
Use hashtag #geekcluster
We start at 8PM and talk and guzzle till just before the last train. (Sometimes just after…)
“Hackbusses (or mobile hacklabs or hack vehicles) are a low-threshold way of bringing the culture of hacking to the people. They are migratory learning and teaching units, taking the talented hackers and their ideas out of urban centers and bringing them to people who might not otherwise be aware of the possibilities available to them.” (via Laughing Squid)
Maybe we could make a Clusterbus. 
In case you missed the Next Meeting page there is a Geek Cluster meet-up on Wednesday 14th July 2010 at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Bring hacks, homemade musical instruments, ZX81s and stuff to show!
Not sure I’ll be able to make it until my head is a bit better (had a bad weekend)
A quick summary of the event:
July’s Geek Cluster was our first at Chapter. And Chapter is of course, a fantastic, buzzing, creative place. In many ways it’s exactly the right place for Geekcluster. (On the downside, it can be too busy, noisy and a bit expensive for drinks too.) But I think we may stick with it for our Cardiff meetings for a while at least. Maybe we’ll find somewhere better; but it won’t be easy.
Anyway, without our hardware-hackers in attendance we had a slightly more literary bent this time. Despite our diminshed numbers, we had fun. We talked about Museums and Libraries, Yarnbombing and Guerrilla-Gardening, reading-habits, iphones & android phones and e-readers, specialization and expertise amongst geeks, typing, handwriting, fonts and even calligraphy. We had a few pipe-dreams on aerial-photography, ballistics, hackerspaces etc…
Puns and wordplay were also a constant theme.
Hello there!
I’m new round these parts – Mr. quixoticquisling linked me in being the thourally decent chap he is.
I’m a bit hesitant to dive right in, but after just writing some of my thoughts on Android ‘vs’ iPhone – I thought, where better than to post here!
Thanks
Nice one chameleonic, see you at a future Geek Cluster meet-up!
Check out this insightful blog post on Android by our man @iiiikoolaidiiii
Hi guys! Great blog – loving the name – sounds like some Arabian chocolate bar.
I currently use wordpress.com for my blog (www.djleekee.co.uk) but wondered how i follow this blog? I cant seem to see the link anywhere!
Ill try and make the next geek-up aswell!
See you all’round soon.
Lee
Lee, thanks for the kind words – but I don’t understand your question?
Subscribe to the RSS feed with google reader, that’s how I keep tabs
Just say if you need more info
See Y Mochyn Du item
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/may/18/cardiff-top-10-budget-food?page=2
So how was Geek Cluster? Quick summary anyone? Cheers.
We all arrived at the Otley simultaneously a few minutes after 8pm: Steve, Pete & Faith, Chris & Rachel(?), Elizabeth and I.
We had a few “show and tell” items, including no less than 3 Sinclair Spectrums, Steve’s beautiful field telephone (which he is putting a bluetooth headset into, but unfortunately let the magic-smoke out on the last joint to be soldered) Pete also brought his Wiseduino (an arduino with built in clock) – destined to be part of his allotment-monitoring installation. I brought along my old copy of a classic manual J.Muir’s “How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive”. Also Steve handed around some sachets of “Sugru” the fascinating air-cured silicone rubber used for fixing & hacking, well anything at all really.
Chris Tubbs regaled us with stories of induction furnaces and other antics at the bomb-factory. We also mentioned yarnbombing, future events (including some possible outdoor geekery), sourcing liquid-nitrogen, building electric vehicles and lots of other stuff that I don’t recall right now…
Anyone else care to chip-in for the stuff I didn’t hear or that I’ve forgotten?
Good summary, that’ll do nicely!
It’s about time we made our own Arduino derivative…
s/Rachel/Rebecca/g
(They’re two names I always mix up as well, maddeningly.)
Thanks Steve. I’m glad I’m not the only one. (New mental picture: Rebecca playing a rebec.)
Sinclair Spectrums in Trefforest and I missed it? Damm. Definitely going to whatever your next event is
Lee, I look forward to meeting you at a future Geek Cluster!
dorkomatic 8:06 AM on 19 July 2010 Permalink
It’s a fascinating idea, and potentially easier than our dream of a Hackspace. I wonder what the minimum equipment list would be for such a vehicle? I’d love to use my van as a hackbus; but in all honesty it’s probably far too small.