Category Archives: geekery

BarCamp NorthEast4

Posted on Monday, 15th Aug 2011 by Caz M

BarCamp NorthEast4 was held over the weekend at the Star & Shadow Community Cinema in Newcastle, a venue which turned out to be very popular with the BarCampers. As with previous Newcastle BarCamps, I found it a very friendly and … Continue reading →

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Leeds Hack 2

Posted on Monday, 8th Aug 2011 by Caz M

Dom The Hodge pulled off another very successful Leeds Hack event this past weekend. Some great things got built (sadly none by me!) and much fun was had with bubble wrap, pick ‘n’ mix and kinects etc. Here are my … Continue reading →

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Anyone For ContraptionCamp?

Posted on Wednesday, 27th Jul 2011 by Caz M

I’ve long been a fan of Wallace & Gromit‘s mad contraptions – the sort of machine that makes life infinitely more complicate than it really should be, just to get a simple job done. Well I hadn’t realised until recently … Continue reading →

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More Popular Than Winehouse!

Posted on Tuesday, 26th Jul 2011 by Caz M

The morning after posting up my High Speed Flash Photography slides from BarCamp Nottingham, I awoke to find this tweet from Slideshare: Now being a relative newbie to Slideshare (I don’t publish very much), I hadn’t had this happen before, … Continue reading →

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BarCamp Nottingham

Posted on Monday, 25th Jul 2011 by Caz M

Nottingham’s first BarCamp was held over the weekend in the awesome NottsHack space. Like many smaller regional BarCamps, I enjoyed it for its friendly atmosphere and relaxed feeling. The sessions were quite varied, with quite a few non-technical ones on the … Continue reading →

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