Brimstone, Cherry, Crashcart, Alii, GTPyro, Jimshoe and just Tuttle bring you episode 007. Recorded January 22nd, 2011. Brimstone talks about snow, 27c3, Berlin Sides, and recording with Signal. Alii and Jimshoe talk about our cupcake and Santa Barbara’s cupcake. There’s Minecraft affecting the real world, explosioning gloves, iPhone GPIO, the largest Arduino shield and more in this episode. Show notes are on our wiki. Explosions curiosity of soundbible.com.

Jimshoe, Cherry, Alii, Kix and Crashcart wrap up 2010. Recorded December 29th, 2010. They cover a variety of projects and events from photobooths to balloons in space to improvements around the shop. They discuss visits our members made to other places as well as other hackerspace members visiting us. They talk about 8-bit gaming, eating pig and more. More detailed notes are available on our wiki.

We’re at it again! Here is the second episode of our new Hackerspace Digest podcast. Take a look at the wiki page for more info about what was discussed.
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Like other hackerspaces I’m finding, we have less than optimal heating and cooling. This summer, a popular complaint was that our space was too hot. We had thermometers, but you can’t read them from your appartment before you head down to the shop. Last winter, we had the same problem with the shop being too cold for happy hacking.
NOT ANY MORE! Harnessing a spare arduino and a few DS18B20+ I’ve finally built a network attached thermometer.

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