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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.
A word from our sponsors
I’d like to say a big thank you to our HomeCamp sponsors: CurrentCost, Greenmonk, Pachube , ReactionGrid and Onzo as without them this event would not be happening.
HomeCamp Media partners
I’m delighted to announce that theattick.tv are the official Media Partners for HomeCamp and will be streaming the event over on the HomeCamp ustream.tv channel and also streaming into the HomeCamp sim on ReactionGrid.
They will also be interviewing people thoughout the day and putting together video footage from the day for HomeCamp TV. SO if you are coming to the event, be sure to get yourself on film!
HomeCamp 2 is this Saturday
Following hot on the heels of the first HomeCamp, so HomeCamp 2 happens. For the uninitiated, HomeCamp is the home hacking, automation and green technology community. Think smart meters, monitoring and graphing energy usage.
HomeCamp 2 is on Saturday 25th April 2009, 10am until 6pm at Bash Creations, 65-71 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4PJ. A map of the venue is here.
HomeCamp 2 aims to build on the success of the first event, with an OpenSim event running alongside for virtual participation and to demo the RealWorld and VirtualWorld modelling and automation that the community has been doing.
I’d like to say a big thank you to our sponsors, CurrentCost, Greenmonk, Pachube, ReactionGrid and Onzo, as without them this event would not be happening.
theattick.tv are the official Media Partners for HomeCamp and will be streaming the event over on the HomeCamp ustream.tv channel and also streaming into the HomeCamp sim on ReactionGrid. They will also be interviewing people thoughout the day and putting together video footage from the day for HomeCamp TV. So if you are coming to the event, be sure to get yourself on film!
So far have around 75 people signed up. If you can’t make it, then you can tune in either on the live video ustream, or sign up on ReactionGrid and join us virtually on OpenSim.
More details and videos on the blog http://homecamp.org.uk
For the wiki, which includes signup and is the main portal to all the online activity: http://homecamp.pbwiki.com/
Live video stream on the day of the event and recordings from the first HomeCamp: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/homecamp
Virtual HomeCamp on OpenSim
We now have a HomeCamp SIM setup on ReactionGrid, which is on OpenSim. We are aiming to run a virtual world event alongside the main Home Camp.
ReactionGrid is already doing some great work with modelling using Pachube inputs from real life objects and we hope to have some demo environments setup for the event. As always, watch this space for more details, or drop by HomeCamp on the SIM.
If you are interested in getting involved on the HomeCamp Sim, then let us know in the Google Group discussion. You can also take a look at the Virtual HomeCamp wiki page for more details.
Home Camp TV – Andy Piper Interview
Here is an interview with Andy Piper, looking back at the first Home Camp and looking forward to the next one in April. General rambling about software and hardware hacks.
We cover a lot of subjects in this conversation, including home automation, Current Cost, Google Power Meter, Pachube, Nokia Home Control Center, arduino, Home Easy to name a few.
Take a look at the wiki for details of the next Home Camp in April.
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