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VVVV round 2

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Due 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, 2012

Hi 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!

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MadLab needs TALENT

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Happy 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?

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DIYBIO Manchester Celebrates BEACON Success

Monday, November 28th, 2011

The 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…)

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Ruby & Rails Bootcamp 3 months after

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Ruby & Rails CourseLearning a new skill is great, and we are always trying to find courses that people are interested in. Equally important is the application of those skills. We caught up with some of the attendees of the very first Ruby and Rails Bootcamp to see what they thought after some time away and how they were using their new found skills.
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