Guildford Makerspace

The  5G Innovation Centre  at the University of Surrey is what any tech nerds’ wildest dreams are made of. It's a hub of gadgets and ideas, with over 170 researchers are hard at work in the centre developing the revolutionary 5G network - a complete overhaul of the existing 4G mobile network we know and use today. ‘ There is no average day  ( at the 5G Innovation Centre). These guys make rocket science look a bit dim !’ laughs Chief Operating Officer, Keith Robson. ‘ Nobody else in the world has this large scale real world test bed that we’ve built around the (University of Surrey) campus. We’ve got 4 square kilometres of actual radios, if you look around you can see that we’ve got 66 radio cells - now that would normally  more  than cover a town the size of Guildford.’ This plethora of software and committed researchers has put Guildford’s 5G Centre at the forefront of the global race to the next generation of mobile technology; ‘We’ve actually got a little embryonic 5G community

Here’s an update with what we’re up to.  There’s a lot going on.  Unless otherwise stated, all activities take place at Guildford library.  People can book places on the events via www.guildfordmakerspace.org.uk/ Digital Friday:  This is the concept of monthly workshops for adults, mainly.  We’ve rebranded this as “ Makerspace:  Get Involved ” and have a programme planned that looks like this: ·          February:   Tablet tea-and-teach for the over-55s and                        Junior Games Creators workshops.                                                                                                                                                 ·          March:       Innovate Guildford, a Stellarium workshop (sold out), and a                        Raspberry Jam. ·          April:          Scanning workshop ·          May:           Robotics event. That’s as far as we have planned; later in the year we’re going to run workshops on digital storytelling, gaming, virtual reality

This month's Read, Watch, Play theme is  #diverseread  and includes reading books about different people and cultures.  George  by Alex Gino and Half of a yellow sun  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for instance or watching films about diverse subjects and ideas or playing diverse music: Philip Glass  perhaps, it all encompasses Read, Watch, Play. Join us  @SurreyLibraries  on Twitter for #rwpchat on Tuesday 28 February from 9am-11am.  Use the tags #diverseread and #rwpchat as you tweet so that others can join in the conversation too.  You can follow the discussion on Twitter  @ReadWatchPlay  check out  Surrey Libraries Read, Watch, Play Pinterest board  for ideas and our blog .  Or just read a book about this month's theme to join in.  Hope to see you soon at Read, Watch, Play. #rwpchat