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Makers Local 256 will be hosting an Open House on Saturday, December 5th, 2009!

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone, including the members of the local GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) chapter of the IEEE!

The Make Shop will feature a swap meet, and will be showing off completed and near-completion projects!

For those interested in helping to prepare for the Open House, we’ll be having a shop cleanup day on Friday, December 4th.

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Makers Local 256 is doing a hackathon this weekend in correlation with the following other hackerspaces!

# Alpha One Labs
# Makers Local 256
# Pumping Station: One
# FAMiLab
# FreesideAtlanta
# syn2cat
# Hackerspace_Barcelona
# Hive13
# Initlab
# KwartzLab

We’ll be streaming live video throughout the weekend from here: http://www.ustream.tv/makerslocal
Many, if not all, other spaces will be streaming live as well. See http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon for more details.

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In order to keep up with the Six-legged Groove Machine party we needed a mobile way of keeping our drinks ice cold. Enter the Backpack Cooler…

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The cooler circulates coolant cooled by dry ice through stainless steel coils immersed in the drink containers. The drink is then dispensed using nozzles held in each hand. Extensive field tests at Phreaknic shed light onto design issues that will be corrected in the next version.

Read more at the project wiki page!

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