Richard Rixham @richardrixham ?

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    Richard Rixham started the forum topic Spring 2011 – Morning exercise in the group AvatarGeeks In The Peaks:   8 months, 2 weeks ago · View

    Hi,

    Anyone up for doing a morning run at GITP, starting on Saturday morning for 8am. How about a gentle run out to Monyash and back again. I don’t think it’s too far a run. Bring your running shoes ;-)

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    Richard Rixham posted an update in the group AvatarGeeks In The Peaks:   10 months, 1 week ago ·   updated 9 months ago · View

    Just signed up for Geeks in the Peaks. The kids are really looking forward to it and can’t stop asking when it is.
    I have some containers so that we can look to leave our own geocache on one of our walks.
    Would be great to be able to make something from all the materials that can be found out and about. Would also like to look at making some of the camp fire bread on a stick. Going to see if I remember my RC Monster Beetle this time too. Anyone else taking any RC stuff?

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      David JM Emmett · 9 months ago

      Remember to follow the steps on geocaching.com before leaving, you’d need the little note and a logbook etc
      Also, might bring my RC helicopter, it isn’t best suited to outdoors, but it’d be fun!

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    Richard Rixham commented on the blog post Some great meetings   1 year, 1 month ago · View

    Hi All, unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control the meet up on the 20th Dec has had to be cancelled.
    We’ll be back to normal for our first meet up of the new year on Monday 17th January.
    Hope that you all have a great Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
    Regards,
    Richard

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post Some great meetings in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    Hi All, The next Shacknet meeting is scheduled for the 20th December. Since this is just before Christmas we have decided to make it a trip to the local hostilry across the road from the Gist Lab at the Rutland Arms. We’ll be in the Rutland from 6.30pm to meet up for our annual Christmas [...]

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post: Some great meetings   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    Hi All, The next Shacknet meeting is scheduled for the 20th December. Since this is just before Christmas we have decided to make it a trip to the local hostilry across the road from the Gist Lab at the Rutland Arms. We’ll be in the Rutland from 6.30pm to meet up for our annual Christmas [...]

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    Richard Rixham posted on the forum topic Group descriptions request in the group AvatarThe GIST Community:   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    Sure can Hannah. Let me see what I can come up with :-)

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post Shacknet Update 2010-10-20 in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    Hey All, Monday was the latest of the Shacknet meetup’s and although the turnout was not as busy as normal we had some interesting things going on with people running through tutorials, the 6 legged monster robot was back and now it moves sideways too. I’ll have to see if I can get some pictures [...]

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post Monday, 18th October Shacknet Meetup in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    Just a reminder that Monday 18th October is the next meetup for Shacknet at the Gistlab. The meetup is from 6.30-8pm To get your tickets visit the Ecentbrite site http://sheffieldarduino1010.eventbrite.com/ Tickets are not necessary but do help us to know how many people are coming. This month we will be talking about the recent hackerday as [...]

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post Shacknet Hackday 16th October 2010 in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    Saturday, 16th October saw another hacker day at the Gistlab. We had a great turnout with some regular attendees as well as some new faces. A few of the items being worked on at the hackerday was a 6 legged robot (not strictly Arduino but it was fantastic to watch it walk around), Sample projects [...]

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post: Meet-Up 2010-08-17   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    Hey All, We had a great meet up at Gist Lab on Tuesday 17th August. David has made great progress on the sweets4tweets project and we can see that we are now ready to look at the hopper issues to get the sweets actually being served. John came up with some great ideas for this. [...]

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    Richard Rixham joined the group AvatarRepRap   1 year, 7 months ago ·   updated 1 year, 5 months ago · View

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    Richard Rixham posted on the forum topic Shacknet Meetings in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    So who knows RUBY? At the shacknet meet up on August 17th at Gistlab I’d like to look at getting the RAD framework going and talking to an Arduino using RUBY.

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    Richard Rixham posted an update in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    Meetup for Sweets4Tweets project on Friday at 6pm, Gistlab and the shacknet meeting to be held on Tuesday 17th August at 6.30pm.

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post: Sweets4Tweets and Shacknet meeting   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    Hey All, On Friday evening, 6pm-8pm, we will be at the Gistlab workin on the Sweets4Tweets project. This project is now at the stage where we are getting back search results from Twitter and the creative team have been working on designs for the sweet hopper and release mechanism (some prototypes in Lego). This is [...]

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    Richard Rixham and Paul Beech are now friends   1 year, 6 months ago · View

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    Richard Rixham commented on the blog post Welcome to SHACKNET   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Hi Ashley, Thanks for your feedback. I think that we now have our contact details more prominent in the groups area which we did not have before. Do let us know if you have any other thoughts or suggestions.

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    Richard Rixham wrote a new blog post: SHACKNET 2010-07-29   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Thanks to all who came to SHACKNET on Thursday 29th. The night was trurned over to actually doing stuff rather than talking about stuff (and eating lots of sweets). The sweets4tweets project took hold with two groups taking on the challenge. One group was looking at the Arduino code to get the tweets and work [...]

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    Richard Rixham posted an update in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Does anyone have any experience of writing libraries for Arduino? I want to string handling library that would make it easy to build up strings, find the position of one string within another, see if one string exists within another, that sort of thing. Any ideas?

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    Richard Rixham posted a new activity comment:   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Yeah, you can by kits for DIY shields. I keep meaning to by one or two to get me going.

    In reply to - Andy Kirby posted on the forum topic Shecknet meetings in the group ShackNet: On acquiring Arduino Kit there is always the option of holding Build Your Own sessions and the potential for Group Buy-in. Great for skills building……. I have a single sided PCB sanguino style board that is easy and relatively cheap (Kicad). Any of the other [...] · View
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    Richard Rixham started the forum topic Shacknet Meetings in the group AvatarShackNet:   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Tell use what you want to see at the Shacknet meetings. What do you want to get out of the evenings? How often would you like to have the meetings? Help us to make the shacknet experience more interesting and open to more people.

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