A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some of the events we’ve been doing as our studio.
Today, we were at the High Tide Festival in Twickenham, just across the Thames from home. We generally pop over to Twickenham to enjoy the shops along Church Street, or to go to one of the Record Fairs run by Eel Pie Records, a fabulous vinyl store over there. Eel Pie Records is the reason that I heard about the High Tide Festival – they’ve been crowdfunding the event for the last couple of years. When I noticed that they had a call for participation for local businesses and makers, I thought it might be a fun place to show off what we make.
It was indeed, lots of fun to be there. Our stall was located on Twickenham Green, which was more the family area, with artisans and a lovely music stage; the majority of the rest of the event was in the centre of town and along Church Street. The weather was beautiful, which meant that we were able to run two plotters (an AxiDraw and a Brachiograph/Pi Zero) along with a couple of other small gadgets, with a wifi hotspot, entirely on a battery with solar panel to charge it1, with a decent amount of power left at the end of the ~8 hour day. The other traders and makers were all very nice to talk to, and I was also delighted to discover Liv’s Telecafe, a converted telephone box that serves coffee, on the eastern tip of the Green during setup in the morning.
A few images from the stall. Every time we do an event right now, we’re discovering new ways to arrange ourselves, and figuring out what we need to do next to improve things.
- We have a Jackery 500 power bank with a SolarSaga 100W panel which has served very well through two Electromagnetic Fields, and many camping trips – I also use the panel to top up a smaller, but also large, Anker PowerCore battery as needed, via an adapter cable. ↩︎
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