dorkbot anglia thirteen

Friday 25th October 2013, 7 - 9:30pm
Ipswich Town Hall, Cornhill, Ipswich. IP1 1BH

dorkbot anglia is a regular evening of talks and conversations with "people doing strange things with electricity" in the East Anglian area. Our thirteenth meeting was held on Friday 25th October at Ipswich Town Hall as the guests of Ipswich ReCreate.

Ipswich ReCreate aims to boost the economic prosperity of the town by growing new creative business clusters and utilising empty town centre spaces. Ipswich Borough Council is offering free access to creative, co-working and showcasing spaces at Ipswich Town Hall.

Cad Taylor of Ipswich ReCreate and David Chatting of the Curiosity Collective introduced:

David Kirkby, who told us what happened when he took apart a perfectly good webcam and taped it to his daughter's telescope. He could take pictures of the rings of Saturn! Here are his slides [PDF].
Chris Betts, gave us an overview of the world of virtual and augmented reality. Here are his slides [prezi.com].
We then had nine lightening-dorks, who had just two minutes each!

Robert Pacitti of the Pacitti Company.
Kerry Buckley of the Ipswich Ruby Users Group (IPRUG).
Sam Parnell of SIMMS.
Mike Challis of the Curiosity Collective.
Jess Broad of I Make Fun Stuff.
Carl Farmer of SyncIpswich.
Anders Fisher of Front End Suffolk.
Peter Miller of ITO World.
David Lloyd wants to let someone to redesign his arcade machine!
And Ipswich Hackspace were with us in spirit!

Jim Horsfield of As Described, talked about his journey and how a small bit of software called Syphon enabled the company to design two new shows for Beardyman, which now tours globally.

Find out what happened at dorkbot anglia one (July 2010), two (September 2010), three (November 2010), four (February 2011), five (April 2011), six (June 2011), seven (November 2011), eight (March 2012), nine (June 2012), ten (February 2013), eleven (May 2013) and twelve (August 2013).

dorkbot encourages grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of electronic art. Started by Douglas Repetto at Columbia University in 2000, dorkbot is now global in almost 100 cities; dorkbot anglia is one of the newest.

dorkbot anglia aspires to runs every two or three months in a different town in the region. If you would like to participate or could offer a venue, please get in touch -

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