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If you aren’t in the IRC channel with us or otherwise paying attention to the mailing list, or if you’re just joining us, we have a new shop over in Five Points at 414 Stevens Avenue, just down the street from Po Boy Factory. We’ve just about moved everything and it’s currently filling up the nice big work floor, so for the time being it might be difficult to find a place to work…or the tools to work with. Many hands make light work though, so come on by to help us sort!

Google Map to the new shop

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Get to know your town a little better – join us for our Scavenger Hunt!  This is the first trial of a community-wide scavenger hunt game brought to you by some members of Makers Local 256.

The Tasks: Find an object from our hints, take a picture of it, and post the picture in a twitter Direct Message to @HSVsh, like so: d HSVsh [some words maybe?] [twitpic URL]

The Objects: Objects in and around Huntsville.  Different every week, for four weeks.

The Hints: Every Friday, a hard one.  Every Monday, an easier one.  Every Wednesday, an even easier one.  Posted at 12 pm noon from the @HSVsh twitter account.

The Points: Until the 2nd clue is posted = 5 points.  Until the 3rd clue is posted = 3 points.  After the 3rd clue until the next object = 1 point.

The Goal: Highest score after 4 rounds (weeks) gets a $50 gift card.  In the case of a tie, a tie breaker round will be held.  First to tweet the right answer, wins.

The Tools: A twitter account and camera or camera phone.  Follow @HSVsh .


The game starts Friday March 5, 2010!



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There is a general meeting of the group 7:30 PM, Tuesday, April 21st, at the old shop. The net’s still over there, plus we have to plan the cleaning of the old shop in the vain attempt to get our deposit back.

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A big thanks to all the Makers (and one Maker dad) that showed up to help move the shop Saturday, especially:

  • Matt’s father with the trailer that help tremendously
  • The new people from the most recent open house (Allison, Gan, Jake #2)
  • Someone completely new who learned of us through the most recent 2600 (Tyler)

Thank you all!

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We just signed the lease on the new space at 203 Brown St. today, and boy are we going to need some help moving. This weekend is not looking great for weather, but we’re going to get as much moved as we can. The goal is to get as much out of the old space as possible so we can spend the next couple of weeks making a valiant effort at erasing the evidence of our residence and get our deposit back.

We will have people at the old space at 3409 Governors Dr. Saturday morning by (latest) 10 AM. Probably earlier. After we take over the first load, we’ll leave at least one member in both locations and hopefully have a steady stream of vehicles going back and forth. It should go very quickly. We hope. This is not a time to arrange the shop; Saturday will be 1) Load it up, 2) Move it, and 3) dump it at the new place as fast as possible. There is plenty of cleaning and work to do on the new shop before it’s really ready for maker habitation. There will be a follow up post on this soon. Expect that for the next month or two, the group projects will probably be bootstrap projects for the shop.

For reference, the map below is the quickest route between the old and the new shops, but you can also go down Governors Dr. and hang a left on Seminole, right on Clinton, and finally a left on Brown.


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