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Tinker London Homesense project – want to get involved?

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Hello everyone!

Tinker London are running a new project, Homesense. It’s about pairing up expert hardware hackers with non-geeky folk, and bringing a stack of exciting new components to think up exciting, practical and novel ways of developing things for everyday use around the home.

We’re helping Tinker find people in the North West who are interested in getting involved. If you’re a

  • Electronics geek into making things
  • A family with kids (maybe into electronics)
  • A homeschooler with overachieving kids

then drop us a line by email, and we’ll put together a coalition of the thrilling. Don’t worry, it won’t cost you anything to participate, other than a little feedback and some imagination.

Threewitter aftermath

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

What do you call a Flickr/Twitter crossover?
lovely cakes
Would it be Twickr or Flitter? Whatever the official title is, we called it Threewitter.

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Undiscovered aftermath

Monday, July 19th, 2010

The first photography group in MadLab meet on the 14th of July. Here is a summary of the first Undiscovered meeting :
Everyone showed 2-3 of theirs pictures of choice, talked about their inspiration, flaws, why do we like them. You can see some of them
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Mad Graphic Novel Group: Fun Home

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Last Tuesday, the Mad Graphic Novel Group meet to discuss the brutally honest autobiographical graphic novelĀ Fun Home by Alison Bechdel as appears to be the case with all book clubs the group split fairly evenly into generally liked, generally disliked and neutral. But without the usual split would the discussion be as fun?
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Scything!

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Scything in Cumbria

Watch your knees!

Our buddies at the Littoral Arts Trust are running a Scything workshop this weekend.

Yes, Scything. Interested? Keep reading… (NB This is not run by MadLab, but it’s a nice place to get away from the technology for a day…)

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