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dorkbotlondon #52

This month Dorkbot takes a different format in a different venue with the London Games Festival in...

DORKFEST - CONSOLE HACKS

   * 6.30pm-8.30pm, Thursday 25 October 2007
   * 01zero-one, Hopkins Street, Soho, London W1F 0HS
   * Free but please pre-register to ensure a place (here: http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/insync_register.htm)

Games machines - and other consumer gadgets - are often capable of doing much more than they were originally designed for, plus nowadays they're also a) cheap, and b) everywhere. Inspired by the international Dorkbot meetings of "people doing strange things with electricity", this InSync evening explores some of their unexpected entertainment potential - if you've got a (portable) console that you're doing something different with, by all means bring it along!

Speakers: Tim Hunkin, engineer, cartoonist and maker of TV's "The Secret Life Of Machines", discusses his seaside showcase of modified simulators and arcade games http://www.timhunkin.com

Matthew Garrett, developer for the One Laptop Per Child project, demonstrates the platform's gaming possibilities http://hackronym.com/olpc/gamejam

...and hardware hacker James Larsson celebrates more than 30 years of Pong TV tennis with its first "adult-oriented" controllers, among other "don't try this at home" inventions http://iht.com/articles/2007/07/06/arts/blume.php

Chair: Dave Green, http://www.ntk.net

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