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HomeCamp 2 is this Saturday

April 23, 2009 – 9:15 pm

Following hot on the heels of the first HomeCamp, so HomeCamp 2 happens. For the uninitiated, HomeCamp is the home hacking, automation and green technology community. Think smart meters, monitoring and graphing energy usage.

HomeCamp 2 is on Saturday 25th April 2009, 10am until 6pm at Bash Creations, 65-71 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4PJ.  A map of the venue is here.

HomeCamp 2 aims to build on the success of the first event, with an OpenSim event running alongside for virtual participation and to demo the RealWorld and VirtualWorld modelling and automation that the community has been doing.

I’d like to say a big thank you to our sponsors, CurrentCost, Greenmonk, Pachube , ReactionGrid and Onzo, as without them this event would not be happening.

theattick.tv are the official Media Partners for HomeCamp and will be streaming the event over on the HomeCamp ustream.tv channel and also streaming into the HomeCamp sim on ReactionGrid.  They will also be interviewing people thoughout the day and putting together video footage from the day for HomeCamp TV.  So if you are coming to the event, be sure to get yourself on film!

So far have around 75 people signed up.  If you can’t make it, then you can tune in either on the live video ustream, or sign up on ReactionGrid and join us virtually on OpenSim.

More details and videos on the blog http://homecamp.org.uk

For the wiki, which includes signup and is the main portal to all the online activity: http://homecamp.pbwiki.com/

Live video stream on the day of the event and recordings from the first HomeCamp: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/homecamp

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Home Camp Looking Back Looking Forward

February 15, 2009 – 4:13 pm

Last weekend we silently opened up registration for the next Home Camp in April 2009.  We are yet to confirm the exact date and venue.  However, head over to the wiki and sign-up and suggest session topics.

http://homecamp.pbwiki.com/

This week, we released some video footage over on the Home Camp wiki, which was originally shot for the fridaymorningreport.tv 24 hour Marathon in aid of Medicines sans Frontiers.  Sadly, this was postponed, as Craig has seriously done his back in.  Get well soon Craig, look forward to seeing you back to full speed soon.

We’re still planning on contributing to the FMR marathon when it does go ahead, in the mean time, indulge in some of the footage that we shot.

The first Home Camp TV video is a brief chat with Martin Dix from CurrentCost about how the company’s technology is moving forward.

The second video is an interview with Andy Piper, looking back at the first Home Camp and looking forward to the next one in April. General rambling about software and hardware hacks.

We cover a lot of subjects in this conversation, including home automation, Current Cost, Google Power Meter, Pachube, Nokia Home Control Center, arduino, Home Easy to name a few.


Home Camp from chris dalby on Vimeo.

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