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.