Are you a coder, artist or audio designer interested in videogame design? Or, are you a gamer who’s curious about how videogames are put together? If so, we’d like to invite you to come join us at Madlab for the Manchester gamejam! Madlab will be hosting the event for the full weekend, so Manchester’s community of nerds, artists and gamers can get together to design and code playable videogames from scratch in just 48 hours! (more…)
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Announcing… the Manchester Game Jam!
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012VVVV round 2
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012Due to poplar demand, we are running Elliot’s VVVV + Projection Mapping courses again. VVVV is powerful toolkit of media technologies, boasting a glut of built in functionality, tools and examples. You can safely presume that you can get it to interface with almost anything you want, it can generate almost anything you want. There aren’t any other media toolkits that can perform so much ‘out of the box’, having you projecting kinect tracked video onto buildings or controlling robot arms from twitter in days rather than weeks. According to Elliot,
it can usurp all other platforms in terms of development speed, power and flexibility.
VVVV + MapTools : introduction to the tools of projection mapping (2) from Prohyena on Vimeo.
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Fundraising for Maintenance Day
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Hi Everyone!
We are raising some funds for Maintenance Day.
We plan to build a bookshelf and improve the kitchen even more.
We don’t like asking for money – we firmly believe that financial contribution should not be a factor in access to places like MadLab, and that open access increases both the value of the superstars who house their communities here and the reach that is afforded to everyone – including those without spare funds.
But we’re asking if you can help all of us raise a few more pounds so we can complete the building of the kitchen and bookshelf, so we finally have an operational library available here.
Building Funds ACHIEVED!! : £400 donated!
MadLab needs TALENT
Friday, January 6th, 2012Happy New Year folks!
Hope everyone’s had a few nice relaxing days of rest. Now it’s time to get ready to meet 2012.
What better way then to be in a music video … about HMTL? We have the song (thanks Sam!), now we need the TALENT.
Omniversity has sort of a tradition of creating videos for our courses, but we’re taking it up a notch this year with a little song & dance.
We are holding auditions for singers and dancers to promote our Web Design Foundation courses. If you have the tunes and moves or just really love Web Accessibility fill in this form to audition.
Deadline for summiting is 25th Jan
Auditions will be held on the 29th of Jan, Sunday.
Web Design Foundation are modular courses, run by Chris Mill, covering the basics of Web Design, HTML, CSS, and Advanced HMTL & CSS. You can jump in at any level. We’ve successfully run these courses last year, and can’t wait to spread W3C compliance to all and sundry. But don’t just take our word for it, here are some testimonials.
If you think you know someone who could really benefit from these course, why not gift them a Geek Voucher?
DIYBIO Manchester Celebrates BEACON Success
Monday, November 28th, 2011The DIYbio project celebrated success at the recent Manchester Beacon Recognition Awards, with their work being recognised with a cheque for £750 to further develop its community-University partnership.
Inaugurated in March 2011, DIYBIOMCR is the largest DIYBIO chapter in the UK, and recently hosted the first ever DIYBIO Summit in the UK during the Manchester Science Festival. Supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust, the group is a collaborative effort with MadLab and MMU, hosting monthly user group meetings, special workshops (eg. Octopus dissection) and bringing experts from the new frontiers of biology to work and collaborate with the general public. (more…)
