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Professor Danielle George.

A week long festival of technology in the North of England.

In less than 2 weeks time it will be time for the third annual Wuthering Bytes technology festival, which this year spans an entire week and once again takes place in the town of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, only a short train journey away from the cities of Leeds and Manchester.

We're particularly excited to have some fantastic speakers lined-up for the closing Festival Day this year, on Friday 2nd October, with an opening keynote from Danielle George, Professor of RF Engineering and who presented the 2014 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures broadcast by the BBC. Her talk will explore the beauty of the radio spectrum as well as show how radio frequency engineering is at the heart of solving many of the world’s grand challenges!

There will also be a closing keynote from Eva Pascoe, who founded the world's first cybercafe, Cyberia — which offered training sessions in digital skills and can boast none other than David Bowie as past alumni! — back in 1994.

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Eva Pascoe.

Other talks include one on hackability as a human right, which will be given by veteran hacker, Jeremy Ruston, who has previously been interviewed for DesignSpark. Also one on the use and abuse of X-ray machines and how they can be used to recover lost information.

Full further details see the Festival Day programme on the Wuthering Bytes website.

Limited discounted tickets are available using the code DESIGNSPARK, which will reduce the ticket price from £10 to £6 + booking fee (lunch is included!)

Open Source Hardware Camp

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3D printed digital microscope with Raspberry Pi control and 1 micrometer positioning.

Also running as part of Wuthering Bytes will be the fifth annual Open Source Hardware Camp, featuring 13 talks on Saturday 26th September and followed by 7 workshops on Sunday 27th.

Talk topics include IoT, the growth of the UK maker movement, low level Ethernet programming, open hardware licensing and more. With workshops on topics ranging from an introduction to soldering to baremetal ARM programming. There will also be one in which participants will get to build a 3D printed digital microscope that uses a Raspberry Pi for control, with 3D printed flex structures that enable X, Y and Z axis sample positioning down to 1 micrometer!

For further details see the OSHCamp talks and workshops pages.

Tickets are priced at £10/day and includes lunch.

Open for Business

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Amanda Brock, Open Invention Network and previously General Counsel, Canonical

Those running or working at an open source business, along with those thinking about starting one, may also wish to consider heading along to the Open for Business Conference on Monday 28th September. This will feature talks on first-hand experiences from companies ranging from micro to global in scale, while also looking at the economic and legal considerations. With a closing keynote from Adam Jollans, who leads the worldwide Linux and open virtualization strategy for IBM and will be exploring IBM's journey with open source.

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For details see the Open for Business page.

Tickets are free (website to be updated!) and lunch will be provided.

Our Tech Future

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Finally, Calderdale Council will also be hosting 3 days as part of Wuthering Bytes, with talks, demos, workshops, a Restart Party and more!

For further details see the links on the Wuthering Bytes homepage.

— Andrew Back

With thanks to Wuthering Bytes 2015 supporters: BCS, Bytemark, Calderdale Council, DesignSpark, Embecosm and KTN. 

Open source (hardware and software!) advocate, Treasurer and Director of the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation, organiser of Wuthering Bytes technology festival and founder of the Open Source Hardware User Group.
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