Monthly Archives: June 2009

reboot: Aftermath

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Update: Rebike. I was in on building it.

Had a long walk over the harbor area of Malmö, explaining it to Tilmann.

We saw:

  • Mai tai, of which we know nothing. A ship bar/restaurant.
  • a skatepark, with a rock band (5 guitars, 1 bass, 1 drummer), and a set of Rock Band players, and two sets of Super Street Fighter (on XBox 360)
  • boulder problems being worked on by rock climbers. “Problems” is what they call it. Each with a level of difficulty. Made me think of Jan Kogut, Polish rock-climber-hacker-wild-man

Also, lots of buildings.

Til’s car had a soundsystem which put them all – yeah all – to shame. Then he took off, heading south. Happy trails, T.

Reboot 11: day 1 recap

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Solar bike panel folks Sebastian and Tomas showed a short “Rocket” wireless adapter, which I liked so much I had to do business with them and buy one.

2W of power consumption: best in the world. 2.5W under full load, streaming media through it.

Met Peter Ferne, of Bristol Wireless, a social enterprise to hand out wireless internet connections and really use the network. Those folks have built a hackerspace, and their meeting got so large every month that had to restructure it. “We spent so much time listening to project updates that people got fed up with it.” Now they have a more action-oriented format.

We got to talking about how presentations can aid the “consumer culture” of going to watch what the geeks built, instead of geeking out yourself.

Oh, and I have been telling people in the region, and visitors, about the 11 July event at Forskningsavdelningen, the Hack Night festival. It’ll be a blast. And quite, quite interesting.