Southackton

Southackton
Status	unknown
Country	United Kingdom
State or District	Hampshire
City	Southampton
Date of founding	2009/05/20
Last Updated	2013-03-28
Website	http://www.southackton.org.uk/
IRC	irc://irc.freenode.net/southackton
E-mail	southackton@southackton.org.uk
Mailinglist	http://groups.google.com/group/southackton/
Snail mail	Southampton United Kingdom
Membership fee	Membership is via So Make It - pay what you think the space is worth, min £5/mo. We require an average of £20/mo per member in order to stay alive.
Size of rooms	500 sq ft
Members
Location	50° 55' 54.53" N, 1° 24' 1.95" W
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We've incorporated as So Make It, and are maintaining SoutHACKton as the hacker subgroup of the space.

Read more about us on our website, or join our mailing list!

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Resources

Component Suppliers

Sure Electronics [1]

RS Components [2]

Rapid [3]

Maplin [4]

RSH Electronics [5]

Ideas for Workshops

Taken from Google group conversation around 13/09/2012

• python 101 (led tutorial + exercises/practical problem)
• 'advanced' python (dojo style problems, discuss a particular module/library (twisted, nltk, ...), etc.)
• javascript 101
• 'advanced' javascript (e.g., build a single page app using node, backbone, jquery, less)
• a funky new language (e.g, Im currently learning clojure and its great fun, other options could be haskell, go, ...)
• arduino 101
• FPGA introduction - what they are, what they're good at and first steps for enthusiasts
• SuperCollider - generative audio ("SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.")
• PureData - Real-time graphical dataflow programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.
• Live coding - using something like Fluxus or mr doobs three.js
• Generative art / graphics - processing.org intro