Maker Faire UK Day 1

Team_BBC_RandD, originally uploaded by meeware1.

Ok, so here we are, stumbling back to the hotl after day one of the excellent Maker Faire. In total, the people in this shot have probably got 10 hour sleep between them in the last 48, but we've had a fantastic day.

No, the weatherbot is nnot yet running, but the rest of the demos are great, and the workshop went superbly. We do have the arduino identifying RFID tags, and telling a laptop to show pictures, but so far the LEDs are not in use. With a bit of luck we'll have a chassis running by lunchtime today!

Maker Faire Blog post for Backstage

Here's a little post for Backstage about our participation in the Newcastle Maker Faire :

Over the weekend of the 14th and 15th of March the Backstage team will
be at the Newcastle Centre for Life for the inaugural UK Maker Faire, joining in as a Maker Team. We think it's a great opportunity for us and the wider Backstage community to join in with a movement that pulls in up to 60,000 people over a weekend in the US , and celebrates the whole hacking and making culture. We'll be doing our own hacks (current ideas are around having little robots explore a map and show live(sih) weather data) and we'll also be on hand to chat to about other Backstage activities, BBC APIs and the rest of the Backstage effort. It's a family day out, so we'll try and ensure there's something for everyone- help us design weather logo's for our robots to display, or give us a hand on the soldering irons! Let us know if you're in the area and would like to help with the hack; even if it's only for a couple of hours we'd appreciate the help, and there may even be a t-shirt in it for you. (Ian, do we have any of those T-shirts left?)

If you fancy getting your own team together you've missed your chance!- deadline for Maker Team application was this Sunday the 8th of Feb! Hopefully see you there though, and keep track of our team progress at BBCWeatherbot.com

Cheers

Ant