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/ (http://www.makerfaireuk.com/)
and application form for projects and booths is here: http://www.cluboreilly.co.uk/?page_id=1554 (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/ (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 (http://www.newcastleairport.com/timetables)
Excellent! I'm going to try really hard to make it, but it will be tight!
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 (http://http://makerspace.org.uk/) are setting up on Friday along with the other makers and hackspaces.
Looking forward to my first year as an exhibitor :-)
Rob and I will be up there as well with our LAByrinth,
Our first taste of a maker faire was the mini faire in Bristol last month, I think we talked solidly for 7 hours it was insane, so many people. Have to try and get away from the stand for a bit to see the other makers this time.
Well the first day was awesome the newcastle makerspace team alone put on an excellent display of 3d printers, raspberry pi`s doing many wonderful things and a number of other projects on display. Then you had Laser Caper which was a great chance to try a mission impossible style challenge by making your way from one side of the room to the other whilst trying to avoid the randomly placed laser trip wires that got harder to see the further you progressed you had to do it all in the dark and against the clock and to put the icing on the cake smoke effects and a giant timer projected on the wall great job ed and everyone at makerspace newcastle.
There is way to much greatness and geek porn to mention here so if you can, get yourself there tomorrow. i will be over with the hackspace foundation uk volunteering in the learn how to solder around area D. i only helped for about an hour today because i was there with my son but it was great how many people where prepared to come over and just give it ago i cant wait till tomorrow when i can spend the full day helping out.
Mick
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 :-)