The Kit Hub

24/10/2019

Dear all,

The Kit Hub lockers are unavailable due to a systems error. We are working with our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

Please share this on your course pages where possible.

We will let you know they are back up and running.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The Kit Hub

03/10/2019

Last chance to apply for The Kit Hub! The application deadline is today, 3rd Oct, at noon.

Unitemps is the University owned temporary staffing service providing job opportunities on campus and with local commercial businesses for students, recent graduates and people from the local community.

23/09/2019

We're recruiting student helpers!

The job application is now live on Unitemps, and the application closing day is 3rd of October.

Unitemps is the University owned temporary staffing service providing job opportunities on campus and with local commercial businesses for students, recent graduates and people from the local community.

20/09/2019

We are recruiting for student workers. Keep your eyes peeled and have your CV ready!

13/02/2018

Attention Photography, Film and TV Students: CF to SD Card adaptors are now bookable online. These will allow you to use SD cards in Canon 5d Mark II and 7d cameras, for those of you that do not own a CF Card.

Please share this in your course Facebook groups.

01/02/2018

The Kit Hub will be closed from 13:30 until 14:30 for some unexpected maintenance. The lockers are available for return of equipment. You must register your card with the adjacent tablet to use them. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

30/11/2017

The Kit Hub is closed for some unexpected maintainance. We will be open again at 4pm latest. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

14/11/2017

The Kit Hub is recruiting. If you are student and looking for work, email us at [email protected] for more info.

25/10/2017

Our server is down. We are currently trying to resolve the problem. Will keep you posted.

We cannot check out equipment but we are still accepting returns.

24/10/2017

Attention 1st year Film: You should now be able to view and book the new Arri three point lighting kit that either Vron or Gyorgy inducted you on. They are named Arri 650w/300w/150w Lighting Kit.

29/08/2017

Videomakers wanted for a short video project about the world’s first business computer

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In October 1947, the directors of J. Lyons & Co., a London based catering company, famous for its teashops across the UK, decided to build their own digital computer. Lyons Electronic Office (LEO I) is regarded as the world’s first business computer.

Watch Science Museum’s short video about LEO Computers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yYDxjBnTM

On the 15th of October 2017, in London, there will be the 70th annual reunion of the former programmers and employees of LEO. It will be one of the last chances to interview some of the British pioneers in computing and to get to know from their words about this amazing adventure.

The group of History and Philosophy of Computing at Middlesex University looking for a collaboration with 3/4 students in Media or Art to realise a short video documentation and to have some interviews with LEO people.

What we are asking you:
- Your availability for meeting a couple of times in the last 2 weeks of September get to know each other and organise the team (shooting, sound, light, editing). You will be briefed about LEO Computers and all the people we will get to interview.
- The presence on the day we will shoot videos: 15th of October, in London.
- Editing of the materials to be published on YouTube by the 10th of December 2017.

Want to know more?
Elisabetta Mori - [email protected] - +447397318494

History and Philosophy of Computing at Middlesex University
http://ta.mdx.ac.uk/leo/

This is the story of the first office computer and its unlikely owners, J. Lyons and Co, a company better known for making cakes. Discover how computers beca...