Today will be the first day of the Kit BuildFest 2010. First session is tonight at 6PM in the Jennison Lab, if you ordered a MintyBoost then please do come to build your kit!
Photos will be coming soon!
Greetings tinkerers,
Starting tomorrow, we will be having the OpenLab sessions every Monday in the Jennison Building Project Labs to make/break/hack stuff and have fun during the process!
Join us tomorrow to discuss our plans to modify an RC car to do awesome stuff.
6PM, Jennison Building. See you there!
Happy new year tinkerers! Stay tuned for more info on what we’ve got planned for this year!
In the mean time, a 60′s music video with a tune you may recognise:
Merry Christmas Tinkerers!
This coming Monday we’ll be spreading festive (and glowy) cheer
throughout campus in our Christmas CampusMod event in the spirit of
our very successful Freshers Mayhem. We’ll be decorating the campus
trees and social areas with custom-made TinkerSoc LED gadgets and have
a good laugh at the time.
This will be the last TinkerSoc event of the term, so make sure you
come along and be merry before heading home for Christmas!
This event will start at around 1800hrs in the Rutherford Common Room,
rather than Keynes as usual, so make sure you come to the right place.
Remember, Rutherford Common Room at 6. See you there!
The next TinkerSoc event is going be an OpenMic evening on Monday, 7 December in our usual place (KLSR4) starting at our usual time (18:00).
In OpenMic sessions we have short (~20mins max) slots for members to come and show the rest of the crowd cool stuff they have been working on or just stumbled upon. You can talk about anything you like or show random videos/pictures if you do not like talking. We want to see cool things!
Details and a list of talks can be found in our wiki. Keep in mind people like last minute wiki-edits so you’ll probably see more talks than the only one currently listed on the page. Also, please feel free to add your name to the list if you are planning to talk 
This week we had our introduction to the Arduino, and in next week’s session we will be be going a bit more in-depth to tell you how to interface with the chip.
We will cover how to connect your computer to your
Arduino, your Arduino to the network, your doorbell to your Arduino to your computer, your website to your Arduino to your room lights…
This workshop will be held in KLSR4 at 1800 hrs on Monday the 30th of November.
See you there!
Next week we will be having our introduction to Arduino workshop.
Arduino is a physical computing platform based on a simple open hardware design for a single-board microcontroller, with embedded I/O support and a standard programming language (which is essentially simplified C/C++).
In Monday’s workshop we will teach you the basics of embedded computing, talking about key concepts and applications and introduce you to the Arduino hardware/software.
We will have this workshop back in KLSR4 at 1800 this coming Monday (23rd November).
Also, the photos from this weeks workshop should be available soon.
See you there!
Our next event is Soldering 101/Wearable Electronics #2, which will take place in the Jennison Building (Electronics) Project Labs this Monday (16th) at 18:00.
Soldering 101 is kinda like our early Christmas celebration as we will teach you how to solder a circuit that looks like a christmas tree and has flashing LEDs! Come along if you’d like to learn how to use a soldering iron and/or if you are feeling festive, although it is a bit early… Photos from last years event available at: http://bit.ly/G4p5N
We will also continue playing with conductive thread and the bits and pieces from the previous wearable electronics workshop so come along if you want to finish your wearable projects.
As you will be taking these kits back home with you, we will have to charge you 2 pounds for the christmas tree and a battery. Normally you would have to pay around 4 quid for the bundle if you got it straight from Rapid but we will be taking care of the difference from our Union budget. Kit fees can be paid to Em on the day.
We have limited kit available so we kindly ask you to sign up for a spot here if you would like to attend the event: http://tinkersoc.eventwax.com/soldering-101-christmas-edition
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BOOK A TICKET IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONTINUE WORKING ON YOUR WEARABLE ELECTRONICS PROJECT! (And it won’t cost you a penny to attend this session!)
Hi Everyone,
Now it’s finally time to unleash our greatly anticipated plans for
Monday’s TinkerSocial!
We’re going to be having a scavenger crawl, a scavenger hunt combined
with a pub crawl. We’ll be starting in Origins at 1800hrs, and
finishing sometime around 2300 (or whenever you want to duck out).
Did I mention there were prizes? Nice prizes. Prizes so good you want
to come along just to find out what they are. Maybe.
Now that you’ve been to our practical electronics workshop (or maybe you knew enough already ), you should come along to our wearable electronics workshop and put those skills to use.
We’re going to combine your new found electronics skills with a little bit of sewing to make your clothes look flash and amazingly awesome/geeky. So, if you want to make your clothes look cool come along to our workshop next Monday at 6pm in the electronics laboratory (in the Jennison building, H3 on the second page of the campus map), and make sure you bring a spare t-shirt or a hat!
The doors of the building lock at 5. Fear not though, we will be able to let you in if you knock on the windows of the lab or if you give us a quick ring at 07873339597.
Of course, as we are a society that heavily relies on membership fees we now have to insist that to attend our workshops you are a fully paid up member. To become a fully paid up member see the instructions on our membership page and pray that OnCampus is willing.
