Retro Day at the Maker Space

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Alistair

This Saturday we held our second all day event, this time themed around Retro computing.

There may be a spread in Linux, Windows, and OSx users, but when it comes to retro computing the Commodore 64 is clearly the Maker Space computer of choice. We had the old PS1 up and running, but this was horribly outnumbered by 5 Commodore 64s in various stated of disrepair.

The good news is that we ended up with one more working C64s than we started with and have a very happy Jon who will be wasting many hours on old computer games for the foreseeable future.

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Dorkbot Newcastle (14th March 2012)

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Alistair

Next Dorkbot NCL is lined up for the Science Festival in the usual place at the Centre for Life at 7-0pm. Featured speakers are Northumbria University School of Design’s Dr. Jayne Wallace and Prof.

Raymond Oliver. Dr. Jayne Wallace’s passion lies in the human interaction with digital technologies. How we can give our interactions with digital technologies fresh texture and meaning will be explored, through unpicking current assumptions and constructing new characterisations and roles of the digital, through creative practice.

Prof. Raymond Oliver will give an illustrative demonstration to help the audience understand the benefits of anticipatory medical devices. Is it possible to anticipate the onset of various conditions including dementia, depression and epilepsy?”

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