Archives/Shop 3.0/Hackerspace Digest/HSD 0004 2010-12-08

Overview

• Fourth Show.
• Recording time: Wednesday 12/08/2010, 8pm

Show Format

1. Introduction - who, what, when, where, why
2. Update on what Makers Local 256 is doing.
3. Stories
4. Events
5. Thats all folks

Makers Local 256 update

• shapr - How much do you really know game.

Stories

• brimstone - TOG's can crusher
  • TOG in Dublin
• brimstone - Random Hacks of Kindness
  • Second Muse, but also Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank.
  • Random Hacks of Kindness: a community of developers, geeks and tech-savvy do-gooders around the world, working to develop software solutions that respond to the challenges facing humanity today.
  • Last weekend, Dec 4 - 5
  • Hackerspaces from all over
• brimstone & shapr - Why is knitting suddenly popular?
  • Pumping Station:One's workshop
  • Travis Goodspeed's hacking
  • Shapr's Haskell and Knitting classes at Makers Local 256
• brimstone - gmc wraps up his trip
• JimShoe - Laser Projection Microscope
• JimShoe - Random Wiki Finds
  • Noisebridge Visitor Advice
  • NYC Resistor Laser Cutter Power
  • Pumping Station One 300 Seconds of Fame
  • brimstone - Sponsor A Day
• brimstone - Hackerspaces Daily
  • @p0bailey

Events

• brimstone - Opendoor Hackaton
  • Workantile Exchange
  • The OpenDoor Hackathon (ODH) is a hackathon to benefit the members of hacker/maker/artist/co-working spaces by creating a standardized, Open Source RFID access and membership management system that can be used by everyone. At the end of the hackathon, the systems (or subsystems) created by each space will be voted upon, and the best system (or combination of systems) will be chosen.
  • Dec 11-12
  • Event Brite page
• brimstone - 27c3
  • Dec 27-30
  • Final Presale of 27c3 tickets, done in 60 seconds.
  • Hackers On A Plane 5 Final ticket $3,133.70