Vague semblance of a con report.

[hirez]

Friday a bit of a run-in-circles experience because oh shit packing and oh shit finding the place and oh shit hoof tent up before speaking to nice people and oh shit speaking to nice people.
Saturday and Sunday pottering about, speaking to people and having ideas.

Nottingham Hackspace are really quite organised.

Utterly lovely to bump into the unusual suspects.

Con swag: A badge. Fully programmable, several LEDs (which are shit-my-eyes bright) IR in and out, 2.4GHz near-field in and out. I have just been furtling with the demo-code and it looks like all sorts of fun.

Something of a C21st change from the usual lump of cardboard with your name on stuffed into a plastic thingy from the office shop.

[The BBC version]

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Aaarg! Am falling behind already. Do you have yours up & running ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Only enough to upgrade the IDE on the Mac, grab the c0dez off the github and try one or two of the demos.

I think I should try re-borgling the bootloader per the page on t'wiki.

I think one could make it collect and then sick up twitter IDs. Or something else like that if you didn't much care for twitter. It would be a sort of 'hello this is me i was at EMF too'

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. I think I will try re-wobbling its bootloader when I am awake and with a command-line that works. If only there were a place in Bristol where people who'd know how that was alleged to work would be found.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

You're way behind. Welcome to post-Gibsonland.

(HTF does one connect a Raspberry Pi to a screen? Can't get a decent picture on anything except the new (HDMI) telly)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Steal ideas from the Igfest peeps.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

So, see you on Thursday, then ? I'll bring mine so I can steal all your wisdom.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Mine just worked plugged into my HDMI monitor, or my composite car-reversing-lcd. Not tried anything else. What's your failing on ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That won't take very long.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

That'll leave more time for amusing chitchat, then.

[maluse.livejournal.com]

The Pi has digital video out only on the HDMI connector so generic HDMI to VGA cables probably won't work.