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Our intrepid reporter, Josette Garcia, ventured deep into East London to bring us this magnificent report:
On June 23rd, I went to my first Dorkbot meeting in London. I must admit that I was a little apprehensive as I am no maker, maybe a little crafter – that’s all. I also have to admit that 25,000 volts don’t impress me as I do not have a clue of the power of electricity.
I got to Limehouse Town Hall with Rain and Jamie from the BBC. The venue is very old and not very well kept but you can feel a good atmosphere coming out of it.
After a few minutes chatting with Alex, the presentation started ...
Iain Sharp from Lushprojects talked about his mechanical recreation of the classic arcade game, Lunar Lander. What I particularly liked about Iain’s talk was his reference to Maker Faire, Newcastle. It was so good to hear such positive comments that I might be willing helping organize a 2010 edition. Time will tell.
Ele Carpenter talked about the HTML patchwork – beautiful colours see http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/
Douglas Repetto, founder of Dorkbot told us what happened to news reported in different media from the white papers to the national press. He also showed some spectacular pictures that he made.
Mike Harrison (http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/) – showed very impressive mix of high voltage sparkles and sound which you can see on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8125259.stm:
Unfortunately, I had to leave before the end and missed out on Sarah Angliss and many more.
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