[Event] - Brighton Robotics - Electronics Workshop with Mitch Altman

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Electronics Workshop with Mitch Altman

Saturday July 4, 2009 from 1:00pm - 6:00pm

The Skiff
49 Cheltenham Place
Brighton, England BN1 4AB

Mitch Altman is a San Fransisco based hacker, inventor, geek,
hackerspace evangelist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics. We are
honored that during a stay in the UK he has decided to come to
Brighton to give us an Electronics workshop.

During the course of the workshop he will showing us how to build some
of his cool inventions, including Brain Machine and TV-B-Gone. Mitch
will also be explaining how these projects work and came together.

This is an opportunity not to be missed. Sign up now!
Here's the kits Mitch has, with prices:
TV-B-Gone kit -- £12
TV-B-Gone keychain (not a kit) -- £12
Brain Machine kit -- £15
Mignonette Game kit -- £18
MiniPOV3 kit -- £12
Trippy RGB Waves kit -- £6
Trippy RGB Light kit -- £12
BoArduino kit -- £12
FTDI USB serial cable -- £12
USBtinyISP kit (AVR microcontroller programmer) -- £12

Info on all of the above is at:
http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com
http://www.ladyada.net

Please bring any of the following that you have
soldering irons (ideally one per person)
wire cutters (ideally one per person)
wire strippers
long nose pliers
solder (60/40 tin/lead)
hot glue gun (only if already possessing one)

If you have any of the above tools, please bring it with you. If you
need a soldering iron, please let me know by 12:00 Thursday 2nd July
as I shall have to find some for those without. You can contact me on
robotb...@googlemail.com

Mitch is also interested in Hackerspaces, building things with
microcontrollers and the social implications of technology. If you
would like to chat to him about any of these things, he will be happy
to do so at this event.

Website: http://robotbrighton.ning.com/events/electonics-workshop-with-mitch