CamJam – June 2015

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I’ve just received the CamJam programme for this weekend, being held on 6th June 2015 in Cambridge, I think tickets are all gone, but it’s looking like a good one. Both Jimbo Uberscuba and Andy Proctor from the Makerspace are giving talks and there is also some planned news on this years PiWars, likely to be in December again.

It would be good if Ipswich Makerspace can enter PiWars again this year to fight to retain our title, we have a good base to build on. If anyone wants to be involved this year please speak up. Hopefully next week we will have more details.

The programme can be downloaded here – CamJam programme

Open Tech Calendar

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Did you know there was an Open Tech Calendar.  Well there is.  It can be found here http://opentechcalendar.co.uk/

Since we are tech based I thought it would be rude not to put us on there, our events can be found here http://opentechcalendar.co.uk/group/283-ipswich-makerspace.  There is no clever linking going on here, they have been entered manually.  Therefore please use this website as the source of the latest information.

SQL for beginners – part two

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So the next meeting, Thursday 28th May will see Tim run the second part of his three part SQL course. This time we are planning to have access to the break out room to ensure other making and discussion is not hindered.

Tim will be discussing advanced data retrieval, this will be an interactive session so please remember to bring your laptops along and make sure you have access to a ‘proper’  text editor.  It makes lift so much easier.

SQL for beginners

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The next Ipswich Makerspace meeting is rapidly approaching.  It is being held on Thursday 23rd April between 19:00 and 22:00 at Holy Trinity Church.

As well as the usual, coding, making and socializing, Tim will be presenting the first of a three part series on SQL (Structured Query Language).

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The course will be practical and aimed at beginners, so bring along your laptop and follow along. Tim will have an SQL server running so all that is needed will be a working web browser.

The three parts of the course will be:

1. Basic Concepts
2. Advanced Data Retrieval
3. Design & Performance

The aims of the three parts will be:

Part 1: To create a database table, insert data into it, update that data, and retrieve selected records from the data.

Part 2: To aggregate data, and to use more advanced selections.

Part 3: To use simple joins and unions, subselects, and describe the use of indexes and views, and the concept
of Third Normal Form.

This looks like a great course so why not come along and joint us.

Please see our events page for more information.

Camera tracking in Blender

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So I decided to give camera tracking in blender a try, It works really well, setup was easy enough, but the render took forever! 500 frames at 10 samples (Not that many.) took over 6 hours on two different computers (150 on main: ~ 2 hours, 350 on laptop: 4.5 hours.), result is good, but the shadows are not brilliant, still needs some work. (Model used is my bench design for product design.)
by Byron Theobald
from Ipswich Makerspace

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Talk, Talk, Make (Node-Red)

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Our next meeting is rapidly approaching. This week on Thursday 26th February we have Jon talking to us about Node-Red, a web based interface for Internet of Things (IoT). It sounds really interesting. The Talk will be in a break out room so the usual making can continue if Node-Red is not for you.

Our calendar of events can be found here.