Moving Forward

[genzaichi]

Thanks to everyone who came to the hack session last night or sent
contributions and well wishes via the various online channels.

I've done a quick blog post over at http://www.fizzpop.org.uk/blog/new-year-new-people-new-projects/

What do you think we should be doing to move fizzPOP forward in 2010?
How would you like to see this thing we've got grow and evolve?

[spideytim]

Hi
It was my first visit to fizzpop last night - and sorry i couldnt stay
longer. It was great to meet some of you and thanks for the warm
welcome
I mentioned the Graffiti Research Labs - http://graffitiresearchlab.com/
- I love the sort of projects that these guys are working on - I'd
love to be involved in something like this..... but I fully understand
if this isnt a fizzpop sort of thing

Look forward to meeting up again sometime soon
Tim

On Jan 21, 8:40 am, genzaichi <genzai...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who came to the hack session last night or sent
> contributions and well wishes via the various online channels.
>

> I've done a quick blog post over athttp://www.fizzpop.org.uk/blog/new-year-new-people-new-projects/

[genzaichi]

Yeah, I'd like to investigate some of their stuff too, especially the
eye-tracking stuff http://www.eyewriter.org/

BTW, It's probably fair to say that fizzPOP doesn't have a thing as
such (though we prefer legal stuff), just a collection of people with
their own individual things that overlap and resonate in interesting
ways. If you want to get something going, float the idea and gather
people around a project!

Idea for a workshop we could open up to a paying general public:
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Most-Useless-Machine/

Any thoughts on how much time it would take a beginner to make one of
these and how much components would cost?

nikki

On Jan 21, 12:38 pm, spideytim <spidey...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> It was my first visit to fizzpop last night - and sorry i couldnt stay
> longer.  It was great to meet some of you and thanks for the warm
> welcome

> I mentioned the Graffiti Research Labs -http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

[genzaichi]

I've been working through building a Useless machine (link below) with
the intention of running a Saturday workshop open to fizzPOP people
and a more general public to make their own.

It's looking like being a £30 charge per person to cover materials
(£20), lunchtime pizza and venue hire etc. (feedback welcomed)

Last night I hit a bit of a stumbling block though: the final assembly
and mounting of the parts is definitely going to require a hot melt
glue gun.
Two options:
a) Has anyone got a decent one (it's for things like joining the motor
to balsa wood mounts etc) I can borrow?
b) Any thoughts on buying one for fizzPOP to add to our collection of
tools? I've found a light industrial one (I'm a bit distrusting of the
hobby models after years of crappy ones at art school) and a kg of
glue sticks on offer for about £30. (including delivery)

nikki

[charlie pinder]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, genzaichi <genz...@googlemail.com> wrote:

It's looking like being a £30 charge per person to cover materials
(£20), lunchtime pizza and venue hire etc. (feedback welcomed)

Sounds like a very good idea - I think £30 for a day's workshop is very reasonable.

 

b) Any thoughts on buying one for fizzPOP to add to our collection of
tools? I've found a light industrial one (I'm a bit distrusting of the
hobby models after years of crappy ones at art school) and a kg of
glue sticks on offer for about £30. (including delivery)

I think that's a great idea, be very useful to have a fizzPOP toolkit. Could we increase the workshop cost slightly to cover the glue gun buying (if fizzPOP has enough money in the kitty to get one in the interim)?

 

c

[hellocatfood]

> b) Any thoughts on buying one for fizzPOP to add to our collection of
> tools? I've found a light industrial one (I'm a bit distrusting of the
> hobby models after years of crappy ones at art school) and a kg of
> glue sticks on offer for about £30. (including delivery)

Good idea! I say go for it.

Ant

[Ben O'Steen]

Do you have an address that tools and things can be purchased and sent
to? In case, you know, someone wants to donate some things?

Ben

[Andrew Thomas]

Hi,

I'm happy to pay £30 for the day, and I'm more than happy to eat pizza too :-)

I'm also happy to help with whatever needs doing to organise the day, so please let me know if I can do anything to help.

Best wishes,

Andrew.

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From: genzaichi <genz...@googlemail.com>
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To: Birmingham Hack Space <birmingham...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [birmingham-hack-space] Re: Moving Forward

I've been working through building a Useless machine (link below) with
the intention of running a Saturday workshop open to fizzPOP people
and a more general public to make their own.

It's looking like being a £30 charge per person to cover materials
(£20), lunchtime pizza and venue hire etc. (feedback welcomed)

Last night I hit a bit of a stumbling block though: the final assembly
and mounting of the parts is definitely going to require a hot melt
glue gun.
Two options:
a) Has anyone got a decent one (it's for things like joining the motor
to balsa wood mounts etc) I can borrow?
b) Any thoughts on buying one for fizzPOP to add to our collection of
tools? I've found a light industrial one (I'm a bit distrusting of the
hobby models after years of crappy ones at art school) and a kg of
glue sticks on offer for about £30. (including delivery)

nikki

>
> Idea for a workshop we could open up to a paying general public:http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Most-Useless-Machine/
>
> Any thoughts on how much time it would take a beginner to make one of
> these and how much components would cost?

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[genzaichi]

I'll ask around a bit and see how people respond to the £35 price. If
it seems reasonable, then I'll give it a try.

Tool kit talk reminds me of this wiki page we started ages ago:
http://wiki.fizzpop.org.uk/Tools

We should update it with kit we now have as a result of the Howduino
workshops...
Linking in with stuff Lee from Friction Arts was saying about
sponsorship, and Ben's question above, maybe we should do something
along the lines of a wish-list so that if people want to support
fizzPOP they can choose something off the list (we can give links and
an idea of price) and know it was definitely something we would use.

Where *would* people post tools to? The Edge? I think there's
generally someone there who could receive parcels...

Thanks for the offer of help, Andrew.
Due to the limited number of tools (I might be asking to borrow saws
and a few bits and pieces later) and tables, I thought I might set
things up so that people move between different workstations for, say,
the soldering, the woodwork, the servo hack and the final assembly.
I'm keen to promote the ethos of people helping each other to make
stuff - rather than relying on a teacher - and I think this could have
some nice consequences in terms of people working together (even if it
is to get them out of the way so you can use the pliers next) :)

[Antonio Roberts]

> Where *would* people post tools to? The Edge? I think there's
> generally someone there who could receive parcels...

Generally speaking if Friction are happy for us to post stuff to their
address then we should do it. Otherwise, once we're set up as a
company, it could someone on the committee.

Ant

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