Leeds2600

The night started off a little shakily for myself as I was late getting to the meet and a bit worried about having just eaten some dodgy lobster…however things went swimmingly with everyone out in the beer garden at the Grove Inn, which we chose this month as the actual starting point rather spending half the night moving from place to place until ending up there anyway.

Good turn out with a new face for Leeds2600, but an old face from from the golden days of hackHull?.

Topics of the night:

• Leeds Hackspace, as Jonny managed to drag himself out for a bit to show off photos of possible spaces.
• Talks and the low quality of stands at Infosec, and digininja‘s mistake awesome tactic of turning up a week early.
• Testing an unlocked G1.
• The “cupcake” branch of Google’s Android platform finally being pushed to consumer handsets.
• Professor Heinz Wolff.
• Fooling airline passengers into thinking you’re flying a plane using a laptop, flight info, and a good simulator.
• General agreement that wifi is magic.
• GPS hacking could go horribly wrong.
• Good tech dims lights.
• OpenHackDay.

As I left early I’ll leave you with this one tidbit for how the rest of the night went, from @tamonten: “accidenaltly shouting armed police somewhere with good acoustics makes complete strangers bab themselves.”

As ever If I’ve missed anything, and I’m pretty sure I have this month, please comment / email / twitter / delicious / facebook / etc. andf I’ll amend the report.

Out.

p.s. These reports are now being emailed to the good people at 2600, each month.