If anything this really is the time for the club to reunite (and for some new fresh blood to join in). If you think about it, homebrew has really exploded without the benefit of meets like this; all thanks to the internet (YouTube et al in particular) showing what can be done with a bit of DIY hacking of purpose built and <i>definitely not purpose built</i> devices.<p>Forget IBM, Dell, HP and such. Those guys are dinosaurs. There are so many new companies now Arduino, SparkFun, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard(TI, but still worthy) etc... all catering primarily toward the tinkerer. If anything this should receive support from these companies, groups and products as well as individuals since it's their products that are going to form the backbone for a lot of homebrew projects.<p>How come there still isn't a proper standard (open source) replacement for the TI series graphing calculator? I can't imagine a group more qualified to build one and share among each other.
Fun note:<p>The conference room in the picture from the video is the Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC national lab.<p>It was just shut down last month as they are preparing to demolish it.
This is cool, but why is this on Kickstarter? Are they going to do it or not if they don't reach their goal (which of course they are)? Why isn't it just on Eventbrite or something like with different ticket levels? The use of Kickstarter seems irrelevant / gratuitous here. I'm not taking issue with the desire to charge (by all means, you should!) but the use of Kickstarter as a platform for that, which is fairly high cost and needless for events that are pretty much guaranteed to happen, but just need to sell tickets. I don't get it.
To be in the midst of pioneers which brought the personal computing age to the world. Wow! Wozniak too!<p>Too bad I'm not able to go because I'm on the other side of the world (Australia).
I would love to attend but geographically can't make it.<p>I bet a lot of HN'ers are in the same boat.<p>How 'bout a couple of rewards catered towards remote beyond postcard?<p>EG - $50 limited edition t-shirt, $20 live stream attendance, $30 for a DVD, ?