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General discussion / Re: Shipping costs Seeed vs. Smart-Prototyping
Being in the UK, shipping stuff here is always expensive :-(

I've been using seeed for a couple of years and just recently smart-prototyping and immediately noticed the difference in shipping costs for DHL etc.  I never check the package weights.

That said, Smart-prototyping only seem to offer a courier service, while Seeed still offer a surface mail and airmail which is a lot cheaper but also a lot more slower.
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General discussion / Re: Maker Faire UK 2013, 27 & 28th April
Awesome couple of days.

I spent most of it on the Makerspace stands, which as Mick said were packed with cool projects. I'll have to post pics of my RKade Pi mini arcade cabinet. Ed's Laser Caper was great. We got to play it on Sunday at the very end. We met with lots of other UK and Irish maker. Guys and gals from London, Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield, Dublin. We also spent some quality time with our friends Aaron from Oomlout and the indefatigable Mitch Altman

@Clay, I came by your stand but you guys were busy and I never got the chance to say hi. Great looking boards by the way :-)
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General discussion / Re: Maker Faire UK 2013, 27 & 28th April
Only a couple of days to go.

I've just read Mitch Altman is going to be there again this year, so looking forward to meeting him again and listening to his talks.

We at Makerspace @ Newcastle are setting up on Friday along with the other makers and hackspaces.

Looking forward to my first year as an exhibitor :-)
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General discussion / Re: Anyone try 3D printed enclosures or low-volume molded on
Wow, I never realised the costs had came down so much. $3000 is a fraction of what we originally paid. The one thing I do remember about getting the injection modelling tool done was the quotes we got were all over the place, cost wise. The most expensive quote came from Taiwan which was totally unexpected
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General discussion / Maker Faire UK 2013, 27 & 28th April
We've got a few UK members in the DP forums so here's a date for your diary. Maker Faire UK is back in 2013 in Newcastle on Saturday April 27th and Sunday 28th. Details are here:

http://www.makerfaireuk.com/

and application form for projects and booths is here: http://www.cluboreilly.co.uk/?page_id=1554

If you can't wait that long there's a Mini maker Faire in Edinburgh on Sunday 7th April

http://makerfaireedinburgh.com/

Travelling

If you're travelling by train, Newcastle is only 3-hours from London and an hour or so from Edinburgh, with trains every 30-minutes.

If you're flying, Newcastle Airport has very good links to Heathrow (UK, 6-flights a day), to Gatwick (UK, 3-flights a day), to Amsterdam (Netherlands, 4-flights a day) and to Paris CDG (France, 3-flights a day) so you can change at one of these airports.

http://www.newcastleairport.com/timetables
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Hardware biz / Re: Anyone selling on Tindie?
I'm glad to hear the positive views on Tindie as I've been looking to use them sell my own PCB's and kits.

The $1 minimum commission does seem expensive especially if you want to sell small boards at the $5. I guess sellers will just pass that cost on.
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General discussion / Re: Hello all UK Hacker/Maker
@Mick, greetings from Newcastle. I'm actually a member from Newcastle/NE Makerspace so we would love you to come along and meet us sometime. Our makerspace is open every Mondays/Tuesday/Wednesday evenings 6.00pm to 9.00/10.00pm. Welcome Wednesdays are my favourite as we get a lot of people visiting us on those evenings. But if a evening is difficult to get to, we also meet on the last Saturday of the month and have a full day of maker and hacker stuff going on.

We're quite active in the 3D printer side of things, I think we have 6 members who have built their own units.

@Ian, It would be great to see you at Maker Faire UK. Aaron from Oomlout was there last time and we hope he'll make it again this year.
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Project logs / Re: Loki: A new PSoC based development board
Great looking project, I've not used the PSoC for years.

It was the great project name that got my attention: "Loki" Norse God of mischief and also the code name of the Sinclair Research's "SuperSpectrum" which never got built (or even designed)

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