Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.
A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)
Agenda:
👉 Consul and Traefik - Brad Gyton
👉 Feature Management in .NET - Kevin Smith ( @kev_bite )
👉 Chrome DevTools Tricks - Danny Jones ( @dfjones )
👉 Polly - Michael Steele ( @steelemck )
👉 Automate all the testing - Chris Amery (@chrisamery_88)
👉 AWS lambda with C# - James Charlesworth ( @jcharlesworthuk )
🌐 Chrome DevTools Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Danny Jones will show you a few tips you might not know yet!
🦜 Polly
An overview of Polly, the .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library.
🧪 Automate all the testing
With automation testing becoming more paramount in software development, this lightning talk aims to equip you with the basics of Selenium, an invaluable automation tool, and how it can be leveraged into your continuous deployment process with docker.
Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.
A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)
Agenda:
👉 Consul and Traefik - Brad Gyton
👉 Feature Management in .NET - Kevin Smith ( @kev_bite )
👉 Chrome DevTools Tricks - Danny Jones ( @dfjones )
👉 Polly - Michael Steele ( @steelemck )
👉 Browser UI Testing - Chris Amery (@chrisamery_88)
👉 AWS lambda with C# - James Charlesworth ( @jcharlesworthuk )
🌐 Chrome DevTools Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Danny Jones will show you a few tips you might not know yet!
🦜 Polly
An overview of Polly, the .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library.
Pulumi with Mikhail Shilkov & Knowing Your Worth with Lex Lofthouse
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This event will be split into two parts, Mikhail Shilkov presenting Pulumi and the second half will be Lex Lofthouse presenting Web Design.
📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨🏫 Pulumi with Mikhail Shilkov
- 🍕 Food/Drinks
- 👩🏫 Web Design with Lex Lofthouse
- 🍻 Social @ http://www.sheffieldtap.com/
👉 Pulumi with Mikhail Shilkov
Pulumi provides a platform for building modern cloud software.
👨🏫 About the speaker
Mikhail Shilkov is an Engineer at Pulumi. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikhailShilkov
https://www.twitter.com/MikhailShilkov
https://mikhail.io/
👉 Knowing Your Worth: Don’t Set Yourself On Fire To Keep Others Warm with Lex Lofthouse
Am I doing enough? Am I even doing it right? How can I do it better? What the hell is Impostor Syndrome and why do I have it? What’s a Work/Life Balance? Huh, now I’m having a breakdown...
After putting her career first for the best part of a decade and then having a minor breakdown, Lex Lofthouse was compelled to make herself a number one priority.
In her talk Lex will discuss Impostor Syndrome and how she learned to fail correctly. We’ll discuss negative feedback and how to deal with it, toxic environments, burnout and ‘crunch’. Plus we’ll finally figure out that work/life balance thing once and for all.
👩🏫About the speaker
Alexandra ‘Lex’ Lofthouse is currently a Senior Designer at JH – a Magento ecommerce agency in Nottingham. Her love for digital design started at an early age, when her Dad taught her how to use Photoshop in her early teens. She went on to study Graphic Design at Robert Gordon’s University in her home city of Aberdeen. After moving down to Nottingham for an internship, she’s never left!
AI is intertwined in our lives in many ways, one of the most prevalent is its use in E-Commerce. As Christmas is coming up we’ve turned our eye on how AI is used in E-Commerce and how it’s used to affect what we buy. Featuring an introduction from Tim Latham Founder of Datatrainer looking at the current trends of AI in E-Commerce followed by a keynote with expert speaker Martin Benson Head of AI Consulting at Jaywing, join us for an evening of all things AI and E-Commerce.
If you are interested in attending this free event please also register via the link below. If you know any guests who would be interested in attending, please feel free to forward on the invite.
CodeUp Sheffield is a mentoring program for adults who would like to learn how to code for free. Once a month we get together to learn from each other, sharpen our skills and enjoy being in a space where everyone is immersed in code!
There are many resources out there that help you to teach yourself to code, but sometimes there is no substitute for the insight and guidance that another person can give. Our group consists of coders with a wide range of experience, and our aim is to facilitate mentoring between more experienced and less experienced coders.
All you have to bring is a laptop and some coding to get on with, such as a project, a book, or some online tutorials. If you are starting completely from scratch, we will try to guide you towards some learning resources. Please try to install any relevant software in advance, but if you need assistance with this, we are happy to help.
This month will have the standard format - just turn up and do whatever interests you most. For those willing to brave the cold and dark, it will hopefully be a fun evening of code and socialising!
If you're looking for some seasonal coding fun, why not try https://adventofcode.com ?
Please RSVP as soon as possible, using your full name (to make it easier for reception to check you in on arrival). If you have RSVPed and are subsequently unable to come, please change your RSVP so that someone else can have your place.
If you can't wait until the event to start sharing interesting coding stuff and learning from each other, you can join our Slack workspace at the below link! If you like, you can introduce yourself in the -intros channel.
Lunch & Learn - Opportunities from working with the AMRC
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Why should your company work with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)? What can our engineers offer you? What doors can we open for your business?
The AMRC works with companies of all sizes to find novel solutions to existing issues through business support initiatives.
In this session Jamie Hinton, CEO and co-founder of Razor, will describe how his software company honed their skillsets to meet blue chip business challenges. Jamie will talk about his journey from networking at the AMRC to being introduced to Rolls-Royce.
This event is the latest in the Digital Meet Manufacturing (DMM) campaign in which the AMRC aims to connect the digital and manufacturing sectors through a series of meets, workshops, hacks, breakfast briefs and conferences.
Following our tradition for a meal in December, and given we like trying out new places, we've landed on Domo Restaurant this year in stylish Little Kelham.
https://www.domorestaurant.co.uk/
We'll be around from 6.15pm and we've booked a table, so if you're planning to join us, please RSVP for us to confirm the table.
On behalf of Sheffield Ruby organising team, we hope you have a lovely break over the Christmas period and have a happy New Year.
Networking Event with Games at the National Videogame Museum
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On Friday 29th November, we will be hosting a free-to-attend networking event at the National Videogame Museum. This is aimed at those working in tech, digital and everything else.
This event is generously supported by Barclays Eagle Labs, who are currently hosted in the Castle House building in Sheffield.
There will be light snacks and drinks provided, as well as ample time to chat and play some videogames!
18:30: Rami Alnawas - Running your own Apache Kafka cluster in the Cloud
19:15: Break
19:30: Ruth Mills - How to design AWS Step Functions for robustness.
Thank you again to Sheffield Hallam University who are hosting us in Cantor Building Room 9006.
Sponsored by The Curve
The Curve are very proud sponsors of AWS Sheffield Meetups.
The Curve are a team of on-demand technical experts ready to turn your vision into reality. The strategy is to use skill and experience to help support scalable growth for the businesses in the Sheffield City Region and across the UK. Supporting events like the AWS Sheffield Meetup encourages collaboration, innovation as together, we strive towards the collective objective to build a strong and vibrant technical presence in The North.
Find out more about The Curve at https://thecurveconsulting.io/
December is a time for winding down, so we'll be having some Xmas drinks at Bamboo Door and food at Wagamama (https://www.wagamama.com/restaurants/sheffield-city-centre).
We'll be booking a table at Wagamama so we'll need to get numbers ASAP.
We will plan to meet at the pub Bamboo Door (http://www.bamboodoor.co.uk/) then we'll head to Wagamama for 7:30pm.
Can you write a simple bot to play the server at a classic game of connect 4?
Can you do it in C# using any programming standard you think it's best to create a bot that can play connect 4?
The session will begin with a description of the problem, followed by grouping into pairs to work on it, and brief presentation of solutions at the end. This means you need to find somebody to work with on the day. Bring a laptop, with plenty of charge :)
The second part of this session will be hands-on, so make sure you bring a laptop with dotnet core 3 and your editor of choice. Recommended is VSCode with the Ionide-Fsharp extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ionide.Ionide-fsharp).
📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨🏫 FP concepts (differences from OO) & basic F# syntax
- 🍕 Food/Drinks
- 💻 Code your own simple F# App!
- 🍻 Social @ http://www.sheffieldtap.com/
History of the Web Browser with A. Carter & Feature Management with K. Smith
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This event will be split into two parts, Andy Carter presenting The Dramatic History of the Web Browser and the second half will be Kevin Smith presenting Feature Management in ASP.NET Core.
👉 **The Dramatic History of the Web Browser with Andy Carter**
Microsoft announced at the end of 2018 that it was building a new browser-based on Chromium. It will join an ever-growing list of web browsers that are built on Google’s open-source Chromium project. With Google Chrome’s own share of the browser market continuing to grow does this mean Google has won the ‘browser wars’ and are comparisons with Microsoft’s once-dominant Internet Explorer fair? Now seems like a good time to re-examine the history of the web browser.
Starting with its humble beginnings amongst the international physics community we'll trace the browser’s journey through three decades of progress up to the present day. It's a story rife with competing corporations, lawsuits and surprise plot twists. Does history repeat itself and what could happen next to the web browser?
👨🏫 About the speaker:
Andy is a senior developer at Evoluted New Media in Sheffield and mostly works with Laravel and CakePHP. Before working full-time in the web industry he worked in Quantum Optics research as a theoretical Physicist.
👉 **Feature Management in ASP.NET Core with Kevin Smith**
TBA
👨🏫 About the speaker:
Kevin is a Microsoft MVP and a technology enthusiast. He runs 2 user groups in the north, dotnet York and dotnetsheff, and casually speaks at user groups. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and helping in the community, likewise, he is keen to contribute to open source projects. He has worked across a broad range of domains including: logistics, law, travel, finance and analytics.
Air Quality, Azure Functions and Spider Eggs with Rob Miles
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Air Quality, Azure Functions and Spider Eggs with Rob Miles
📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨🏫 Air Quality, Azure Functions and Spider Eggs
- 🍕 Food/Drinks
- 👨🏫 TBA Part2
- 🍻 Social @ http://www.sheffieldtap.com/
👉 Air Quality, Azure Functions and Spider Eggs
Good quality air is important. After all, everyone breathes. But dig a little deeper into the subject and most of what you find is what we don't know. Is air pollution produced by local traffic? Does it waft in on the breeze? Are there times when I really shouldn't go out for a run?
In this talk I'll describe how you can build your own connected air quality sensor and get data from it. I'll touch on embedded devices the MQTT protocol, LoRa networking, Azure IoT Hub and Azure Functions, along with our Connected Humber effort to spread sensors over Humberside. And I'll even mention spider eggs and show off my "Air Quality Top Hat".
👨💻Rob Miles
Rob Miles has spent over 30 years teaching programming to a succession of students at the University of Hull in the UK. He’s a Microsoft MVP with a passion for programming, C# and creating new things. He's written a few books over the years, and coloured in a lot more.
If he had any spare time he’d spend it writing even more code. He loves making programs and then running them to see what happens. He reckons that programming is the most creative thing you can learn how to do.
Having worked with many languages and platforms over the years he now likes nothing more than writing C# using Visual Studio, preferably for a small device of some kind. If there are motors and lights involved, so much the better.
He claims to know a lot of really good jokes, but nobody has ever heard him tell one.
We have a fun winter warmer planned just in time for Christmas! Come down and join us for a VR gaming special!
We‘ve had a great inaugural year and have been thrilled to become part of the vibrant Sheffield meetup scene, so just in time for Christmas we want to have a gaming special! Come down and enjoy some mulled wine and mince pies and assert your dominance at our VR gaming arcade! We’ll have some great games set up for you to play and get bragging rights.
18:00 Check In & Drinks
18:30 VR Industry Update
18:50: Games & Competition
20:20 Community Announcements & Wrap Up
20:30: More demos
21:00 End.
Talks:
If you'd like to give a talk or showcase, an experience or demo at this or any other event let us know via this form: https://forms.gle/KhKFQxvPfaDhMssy5
Competition:
If you want to enter the games showcase competition fill in the above form. Submissions no later than the 17th December! Best voted game on the night gets a prize!
Demos:
TBA
If you want to sponsor our event, contact hello@immersesheffield.co.uk
We have a fun winter warmer planned just in time for Christmas! Come down and join us for a VR gaming special!
We‘ve had a great inaugural year and have been thrilled to become part of the vibrant Sheffield meetup scene, so just in time for Christmas we want to have a gaming special! Come down and enjoy some mulled wine and mince pies and assert your dominance at our VR gaming arcade! We’ll have some great games set up for you to play and get bragging rights.
18:00 Check In & Drinks
18:30 VR Industry Update
18:50: Games & Competition
20:20 Community Announcements & Wrap Up
20:30: More demos
21:00 End.
Talks:
If you'd like to give a talk or showcase, an experience or demo at this or any other event let us know via this form: https://forms.gle/KhKFQxvPfaDhMssy5
Competition:
If you want to enter the games showcase competition fill in the above form. Submissions no later than the 17th December! Best voted game on the night gets a prize!
Demos:
TBA
If you want to sponsor our event, contact hello@immersesheffield.co.uk
We have a real treat for agile Sheffield members at the next meetup on Tuesday 10th December.
Peta Pinnock from Vital Force Massage (https://www.vitalforcemassage.co.uk) will be joining us to provide an interactive session to explore the causes and effects of stress and what we can do about it.
She’ll be explaining about movement (or lack of) and will be getting everyone up and moving! She’s also going to be talking about nutrition - food, liquid, sunlight, air, attitude, perception; how massage works - energy, circulation; self help - breathing techniques, meditation; and what to do going forwards, and creating an action plan.
We’ll also receive a handout with all the information on that everyone can take away. She’s even going to bring her massage chair to do some demo’s!
It'll be light, fun and easy to follow and you only have to join in if you want to.
The aim is to get people taking notice of what their bodies are saying, understand it and take responsibility for doing something about it.
Lunch & Learn - Process Control & Machine Analytics
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Has your digital business got the skills to start adding value to regional manufacturers?
Manufacturing businesses are increasingly understanding that they can make substantial step changes in process improvements by simply analysing the data that comes from their machines.
At this informal event, the next in the AMRC’s Digital Meet Manufacturing campaign, the AMRC’s Process and Monitoring Team will demonstrate how they have generated added value to manufacturers and how demand is rising in the industry. Project Engineer Robin Hartley will explain how this starts with analysing data and finishes with presenting it in a format that businesses understands.
Digital Meet Manufacturing (DMM) is the AMRC’s campaign to lead the way in connecting digital and manufacturing together in a way that benefits both sectors.
It's that time again! This year we're giving the benefit of testing hindsight to one of Arnie's most action packed roles - Howard Langston.
You guessed it... This year's movie is Jingle All The Way. We'll be offering the much needed analysis and critical thinking that would have helped Howard get his son Jamie that Turbo Man action figure for Christmas.
Come along. Get involved. Throw on a christmas jumper. There will probably be a few festive treats on the go too. 🎄🥧🧁
December 4th. Tech Parks. Doors open 6:30pm. Festivities kick off at 7.
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Big thanks to our sponsors - Tech Parks for letting us use their wonderful meeting space. And Ministry of Testing for just existing and being awesome!
As always, if you'd like to sponsor, host or speak at a future event then please do get in touch! And don't forget to keep an eye on the Meetup page or on www.twitter.com/steelbugs for details of upcoming events.
If you're a new member or concerned about arriving alone, drop the organisers a message and we'll keep our eyes peeled for you. :)
In this talk, Mårten will share some of his learnings from working with new internet users, and how to design products that reach users who have recently come online.
He will share some insights that will help designers create successful products for the next billion internet users.
Package development for women and other under represented groups
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Join us welcoming Emma Rand for a special talk on the RForwards project. After the talk we will have an Xmas social with mulled wine (available to purchase from the Red Deer) and mince pies.
Emma Rand is Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship) in the Department of Biology at the University of York. She teaches data analysis and reproducibility for analysis pipelines predominantly to those who do not see themselves as programmers.
https://buzzrbeeline.blog/
@er13_r
RForwards is an R Foundation task force that was originally set up in December 2015 to address the under-representation of women in the R community. An analysis of CRAN package maintainers estimated that fewer than 15% were women, and a useR! participant survey found that women were less likely than men to have experience contributing to or writing packages. In 2017 it was rebranded to accommodate other under-represented groups such as LGBTQI, minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities. The task force is organised as a core team plus a number of sub-teams that focus on particular tasks. One of these is a Teaching Team covering methodology, materials and workshops designed for under-represented groups. In this talk I will describe a workshop particularly intended to increase the number and visibility of women, people of colour and LBGTQ+ individuals in the scientific coding community. Coding is a valuable skill in research and many degrees courses in the life sciences provide training in programming. These equip individuals to implement programming-based solutions to scientific problems but rarely to professionally document and disseminate their code.
Sound Junction uses a purpose-built sound diffusion system and darkness to create the ideal listening conditions. Surrounded by strange yet familiar sounds, this setting in Firth Hall gives your mind the space and your imagination the freedom to take you on a personal journey through soundscapes familiar and new.
Friday 22nd November
5pm: Concert (60 minutes, no interval)
Featuring works from staff and students from the University of Sheffield Sound Studios.
6.15pm: Meet the Composer (no ticket required)
Louise Rossiter launches her new CD which features works exploring silence, soundscape, and the first three works of the Music – Bodies – Machines project, based on the infographics of Fritz Kahn. Join us for a complementary glass of wine and a chance to speak to Louise about the launch. Her latest work, Neuronen will be premiered in the concert at 7pm, and compares the nervous system (impulse and reflex responses) of the human body to the mechanisms of a doorbell.
7pm Concert (80 minutes+ interval)
Featuring works from staff and students from the University of Sheffield Sound Studios and invited guest Louise Rossiter. Rossiter’s work contrasts real and imaginary places and enigmatic sounds to provide a highly immersive sonic experience.
Saturday 23rd November
1:00pm: FREE Concert (60 minutes, no interval)
Dimitris Savva: Moments of Liberty (complete)
5pm: Concert (60 minutes, no interval)
Works from staff and students from the University of Sheffield Sound studios.
7pm: Concert (80 minutes + interval)
Experience outstanding improvisation from specialists Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler with real-time audio processing and visuals. Sounds from acoustic instruments blend perfectly with field recordings, spectral editing and spatialisation, allowing ‘virtuoso chances’ to take control.
The bi-monthly Podcast Rebellion meetup, in collaboration with the Sheffield Podcasters Network - it's the heart of Sheffield's podcast community!
Beer, food, and podcast chat - sounds like heaven, right?
With speakers being announced for each events, you're sure to have fun in a friendly, informal setting where everyone is there for the love of podcasting!
Sheffield Data for Good brings together the data and social expertise in Sheffield to help understand some of the city’s social problems. And it's for anyone that's interested, not just 'data experts'. We're a friendly bunch and you don't need to have come along before!
The focus of this session will be grant funding in Sheffield, where it goes and for what purpose. We will be looking at data from 360 Giving, Sheffield City Council and hopefully others too. More details to follow in due course...
Please bring a computer, laptop, tablet or other internet-connected device with you.
This meeting is for anyone with an interest in IoT (Internet of Things) and data across the region, everyone is welcome. The theme for this meeting is the use of IoT in developing Smart Cities.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
Sheffield Hackspace is a non-profit, member-run hackspace for central Sheffield. Together we’re building a workshop and community to help people get involved in “the creative use of technology and tools for projects in fields such as computing, robotics, machining, technology, digital art or electronic art“.
We’re interested in whatever our members are interested in! Such as electronics (including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266), 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, textiles (including clothing and kites), crafts, woodwork and metalwork, LoRaWAN and IoT, robotics and machine learning, photography...
We’re always keen for new people to join who can swap ideas, learn from each other, and build new things. All skill levels welcome!
Additionally we’re open every other Saturday from 11am - 6pm, and check out our website www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk for info on the various interest groups that meet throughout the week.
The Sheffield Digital Showcase returns for its fifth(!) edition on Thursday the 12th December, once again in conjunction with The Platform, to present and celebrate some of the excellent digital work produced in our fine city.
Our showcase events lift the lid on the people, projects and firms in our digital industries across the full range of activity - the “full stack”, from hardware to content, mobile apps to ‘triple-A’ video games, virtual theatre performance to immersive data visualisations.
Much of the work created here is recognised around the world but is not well known in it’s own backyard - we want to change this and make sure the whole city knows about it!
The Digital Showcases are for industry pros and the general public alike - the format is similar to a talk show, with guests invited on stage to explain their project by showing the work and process with images or short videos, and questions asked by our own Chris Dymond, who delves into the details of how the project came about, how it was made and by whom, while also summarising and explaining in simple language to make the tech understandable even to people with only a general interest.
The event will consist of three parts:
5:30-6pm - Arrival
This provides an opportunity to unwind after work, meet other people and enjoy a drink - either soft or alcoholic.
6:00-7:00pm - Interviews
Each guest slot is limited to 10 minutes, and they must demonstrate a digital product, experience or service that has been made here in the city, or nearby, within the last 6 months.
There will also be a short update of upcoming events and initiatives, as well as an opportunity for members of the audience to promote relevant things.
7:00-8:00pm - Food and Networking.
Food will be served at 7pm, and the event aims to finish around 8pm.
The lineup is still being finalised, so please check back for new announcements. So far confirmed are:
- Adiam Amanuel from 721
- Martin Benson from Jaywing
- Tim Latham from Data Trainer
Join us for the final Sheffield PHP of the year for an open, informal, discussion on “What’s in-store for PHP and the web in 2020?” alongside our panel of local industry experts.
Our Experts
Clive Harber
With 15 years of PHP software development experience under his belt, Clive is working as a consultant for Plusnet at present. He is co-author of two publications released this year - “Getting Mean with MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node” and “Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS”.
Geoff Charlton
Geoff is a highly experienced AWS and PHP contractor who currently calls Good Things Foundation home. He has worked for countless local companies over the past decade as a freelance developer and consultant.
John Noel
Currently working as a senior PHP developer at one of our sponsors, Evoluted. After graduating from Sheffield University, John has spent 9 years working for many of Sheffield’s well known agencies. As well as web development, he has further interests in architecture, scaling, dev-ops, deployment and security.
After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.
Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.
6.00pm - 6.15pm
Arrive and take a seat.
6.15pm - 7.15pm
Open discussion - What’s in-store for PHP and the web in 2020?
Learn Unity 3D for Virtual Reality - Beginners course
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Virtual Reality gives you an immersive 3D experience, and with Unity3D with its stunning 3D animation capabilities, is one of the best choices for developers to create out-of-the-box Virtual Reality games or applications for different platforms such as, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or Oculus Quest.
This course takes a practical, project-based approach to teach you the basics of Virtual Reality development with the Unity 3D game engine. We walk through a series of hands-on projects, step-by-step tutorials, and in-depth discussions using Unity3D and other free or open source software. While VR technology more mainstream, we'll capture the basic principles and techniques that you can use to make your VR games and applications immersive and comfortable.
What will you learn across the whole course?
To create 3D scenes in Unity 3D, learning scale and space.
Build Interactive environments with Physics, gravity and lighting
Build and run VR applications for headsets such as the HTC Vive, Pro and Oculus Rift
Experiment with user interface techniques in VR.
Gain introductory and some advanced experience in Unity Programming.
Course Content
What is virtual reality?
Types of display, the difference between Virtual and Augmented Reality.
Getting started with Unity the fundamentals.
Build up a scene. Place objects in a virtual room and apply simple interactions.
Build and test your own VR application at the end.
Requirements:
A laptop preloaded with the latest version of Unity 3D which you can download for free.
We will provide the headsets for development.
PLEASE NOTE: this course is run over 4 consecutive evenings, 6pm-8pm at Kollider, Castle House, Angel Street, Sheffield, S3 8LS on the following dates:
Thursday 28th November.
Thursday 5th December
Thursday 12th December
Thursday 19th December
The Sheffield Meta-Meetup is the meetup for people who organise meetups, and those who would like to.
It's an opportunity for organisers to meet and exchange tips, collaborate and pool resources in order to make each other's events more successful. Many of the meetups are 'tech meetups', but not all - the meta-meetup is open to anyone who organises regular events around particular topics or for specific communities in Sheffield.
This edition of the Meta-Meetup will take place at Spaces, on the ground floor of the Acero building in the Digital Campus.
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https://metameetup4.eventbrite.co.uk
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https://metameetup4.eventbrite.co.uk
Start changed:
Mon 25th Nov 2019 5:30pm (Europe/London)
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Mon 25th Nov 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)
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Europe/London
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Is Virtual changed:
No
Is Physical changed:
Yes
Code of Conduct changed:
We use Sheffield Digital's CoC: https://sheffield.digital/CoC
