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February 18 2009.
Thanks to everyone who turned up for this workshop – we hope you had as much fun as we did!
As promised, we’ve uploaded a schematic and firmware of the TV-B-Gone kit:
Check out our flickr pool for more photos.
If you have any feedback about the workshop, then do join the mailing list and start a discussion. If you’ve got an idea for a future workshop, then have a look at the Ideas Page on the wiki and add your idea.
And finally, if you’d like to see more workshops and events like this in the future, then please support us by becoming an official member of the society. This will enable us to access more funds to organise more awesome events.
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February 14 2009.
Check out this version of our logo made out of the TV-B-Gone PCBs by Chris 
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February 10 2009.
Fancy covering your friends in packing tape and clingfilm?
We’ll be holding a tape sculpture workshop this Friday (13th February) in RLT2 at 1800-2000. Hopefully, we’re going to make some … interesting … sculptures. We will be making the sculptures out of various things (including (consenting) humans), then putting LEDs in them, and “installing” them around campus.
You don’t need to put your name down anywhere, just turn up!
We have enough clingfilm to cover a car park, so bring your (consenting) friends!
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February 5 2009.
Wow! That was quick! The OpenLab TV-B-Gone slots for kits has already been filled!
However, if you’re still interested in getting a kit, then add yourself to the waiting list on the wiki . If you put down some kind of contact detail, I’ll get back to you if you’ve got a kit available.
We’ve now got 20 slots available, so get your name down on the wiki if you want a kit!
Only add yourself if you’re definitely free on Monday 16th February between 1700 and 2000.
No, seriously, now all 20 slots have been filled.
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February 5 2009.
The next OpenLab will be on Monday 16th February (starting at 17:00), and, due to popular demand, this time we have a plan.
We will be providing you with all the component parts for a TV-B-Gone, and you can use the lab facilities to put it all together – or you can use the parts to build something completely different! It’s all up to you. There will be plenty of knowledgeable people around to help out should you get stuck.
We might even go out and use our creations to wreak some havoc in a campus bar after we’re done!
All you need to bring is yourself and some enthusiasm. Some cash for pizza would also be handy.
( If you are planning to attend the TV-B-Gone event, please put
your name down in the wiki: http://ukctinker.org/wiki/openlab:tvbgone )
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February 5 2009.
The logo competition is finally over and as we only had one entry, the winning submission is dm242′s ‘Untitled #1′
We have slightly tweaked it and currently it looks like this:
We love it and hope to use that soon on some nifty TinkerSoc stuff!
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February 2 2009.
We have been informed that the UKC campus is closing at 1PM today to ensure that people don’t get stranded in the bad weather. As such, tonight’s OpenLab has had to be cancelled.
I suggest that you go home, have a mug of hot chocolate (preferably Whittards), and make some snowmen. Maybe you can do better than my Snow Totoro.
Pics or it didn’t happen!