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Rob Hopkins - Father of the UK transition movement comes to Cambridge March 28th

robert.stanford — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:50:44 +0000

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BIG Summer BBQ - FRIDAY 16th July

robert.stanford — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:55:54 +0000

BIG Summer BBQ - FRIDAY 16th July

CREATING CAMBRIDGE BIG SUMMER BBQ

Where great conversation, inspiration and ideas come together!

CHASE has teamed up with other groups to organise a special summer event - a BBQ for everyone interested in technology, creative ideas, entrepreneurship and the life sciences. We're aiming to get cross pollination and to start interesting conversations.

CHASE: Talk - Next week - 12 April - An open-source based solar heating project

robert.stanford — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:27:18 +0000

An open source based solar heating project - Wookey

This month we have something quite different.

Balloon is an free/open-source hardware platform intended for use in embedded devices.

Wookey is a software engineer, working on Free Software. He's been deeply involved in the Balloon Project.

When he decided that a hot-water solar panel would make a good addition for his house, and that he wanted to build the system, naturally he used the Balloon as the controller.

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South Cambs - Sustainable Parish Energy Partnership - Newsletter

robert.stanford — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:37:21 +0000

Partnership Members:

· Barton

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Training grants for Creative businesses in the East of England

robert.stanford — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:01:23 +0000

The Beyond 2010 programme www.beyond2010.co.uk can reimburse up to 50% of your business training costs this year. Screen East is delivering the Creative Sector of this European Social Fund and East of England Development Agency (ESF/EEDA) programme supporting higher level short courses to a maximum grant of £5000 per business. The Creative Sector includes digital media, web design, audio visual industries and software development.

Cambridge Hitech Assisiation of Small Enterprises e-Go personal aircraft talk

robert.stanford — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:22:04 +0000

I thought that this talk may be of interest on account that this personal aircraft claims that it will be "environmentally friendly" with low noise levels and capable of achieving 80MPG and a cruising speed of 115MPH!

Talk - Tony Bishop on the e-Go project - a novel light aircraft - 18th Jan

The importance of getting the requirements right

robert.stanford — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:46:32 +0000

Having undertaken and overseen a fair amount of systems implementation in my time. I saw this video over the holiday period and it served as a useful reminder as to how easy it is to get the requirements for a new system wrong through poor communication and assumptions both from the customer and the supplier. Which is made harder by the frustration that inevitably follows.

A Greener Way to use IT?

robert.stanford — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:09:57 +0000

Private/Public funded wind turbine at Bassingbourn Community Primary School

robert.stanford — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:56:59 +0000

Bassingbourn Community Primary School has installed a 5kw wind turbine to help power the school.

Bassingbourn Christmas Market

robert.stanford — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:46:23 +0000