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Announcing Home Camp 4 “Hack the House”
It’s time for another event!
Home Camp brings together members of the technical community interested in using open systems and low-cost, often repurposed hardware to bring about a positive change in the way we use energy and appliances around the home.
With ever-increasing energy prices, the race is on to develop ways to utilise smart technology to help offset domestic energy consumption and lower carbon footprints.
Home Camp 4 invites those working with technology (software, hardware or web-based applications) to meet at an informal “unconference” in central London to offer presentations, workshops, mash-ups and hack sessions with the aim of sharing information and furthering the development of the open energy community.
Presentations this year will include the following provisional topics:
- An Open Energy Monitor – Trystan Lea and Glyn Hudson
- A Low Voltage DC Power System – Simon Daniel or Chris Wright, Moixa Technology
- Nanode – an Open Hardware Success Story – Ken Boak, Arbour Wood Ltd.
- Pachube – Open Data for Energy Monitoring – Usman Haque, Pachube
The event will again take place at the Centre for Creative Collaboration, at 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG (nearest tube is 500m away at Kings Cross)
This bright, modern venue offers ideal facilities both for presentations and working in small groups.
Lunch will be provided in the form of a buffet. Refreshments, including tea, coffee, soft drinks and beer will also be available.
Provisional Schedule
Saturday 29th October
09:30 Open for refreshments and meet and greet
10:00 Keynote presentation
10:30 Presentation Slot 1 – To be decided on the day
11:00 Presentation Slot 2
11:30 Presentation Slot 3
12:00 Morning workshop session 1
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Regroup and arrange Unconference – session 1
15:30 Refreshments
16:00 Unconference session 2
18:00 Day 1 de-brief
For those staying in London there will be an evening pub visit 
Sunday 30th October
09:30 Open for refreshments and meet and greet
10:00 Hacksession
10:30 Presentation Slot 1 – To be decided on the day
11:00 Presentation Slot 2
11:30 Presentation Slot 3
12:00 Morning workshop session 1
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Regroup and arrange Unconference – session 1
15:30 Refreshments
16:00 Unconference session 2
18:00 Day 2 de-brief
The cost is £10 per day, or £17.50 for the full weekend (plus booking fees) – to include lunch and refreshments.
Due to the capacity/safety limits at C4CC the event is restricted to a total of 95 attendees.
Want to get involved? Get your tickets on Eventbrite!
Once you’ve signed up we also invite you to contribute to the crowdsourced Lanyrd event page.
HomeCamp 3 – it’s coming – sign up now!
An exciting couple of weeks in the HomeCamp community as the rumours began to circulate on Twitter that MikeTheBee had pushed things forward and found a venue for HomeCamp 3. Mike is the man behind the HomeCamp podcast, so if you weren’t already subscribed to that, you should check it out!
So here’s the big reveal: HomeCamp 3 will be on December 13th 2010, 4-8pm at the Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC) in London. There are suggestions of an evening social gathering as well…
Mike posted a short note about the event in a comment here on the blog. The full announcement is posted in the Google Group. If you’ve never been to the venue before, Mike says:
… it is an a place with a real buzz, not for the building itself, which is intended to be ‘a blank canvas’ but for all the creative work going on in the corners. Electroluminescent clothing and Arduino controller being sewn in one corner, people bouncing on paving slabs to generate power in another, more Arduino’s controlling bits of a re-constructed piano awaiting it’s next performance, and there are always new surprises.
Sounds pretty cool! So, it’s all go. You can go ahead and sign up right now at the EventBrite page, and also track the event on the uber-cool new social conferences site, Lanyrd (you can also find HomeCamp 1 and HomeCamp 2 on Lanyrd as well, and add your coverage if you attended them).
While we’re in the mood, we’ve tidied up some of the web presences around the HomeCamp community, fixed the About page, the links in the blog sidebar have been updated to point at the current location of the wiki, Flickr group etc, and we’ll probably switch across to a funky new Facebook page (instead of a group) in the near future.
So – check out the discussions, follow the tweets, and most importantly, get your free ticket NOW. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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