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Contents
Overview
- 13th Show.
- Recording time: September 07th, 2011 8pm
Hosts
- Nathan
- Matt
- Tim
Show Format
- Introduction - who, what, when, where, why
- Update on what Makers Local 256 is doing.
- Stories
- Events
- Thats all folks
Introduction
This is Hackerspace Digest episode number 13 for Wed Sep 7th, 2011, semi-weekly podcast recorded by member of Makers Local 256 in Huntsville, Al. Check out makerslocal.org for more information about us. I am (realname) also know as (online_name) online, (rest of people fill in starting to left of the main host).
Sponsor
Makers Local 256 update
- 2x4 CNC Machine ready to do Board Etching.
- Tim finished putting together Nathan's Gen 6 Reprap board
- Possibly being fined for the yard.
- Ham shack.
- Going to Mini Makerfaire Atlanta.
Stories
- Light Switch Xbee
- Wirelessly turn on and off a light, through Hi-tech stuff.
- Raspberry Pie alpha boards
- Small cheap linux computers.
- Minecraft IRL
- Box that you hit and acts like a minecraft block.
- Instructables twitter "As of today, all steps view and secondary images are available to everyone, logged in or not"
- FPGA Bitcoin Mining
- 6.8 watts for 100 Mhashes/second
- The Beginning a book about hackerspace in 2008.
- This isn't new info, book has been out at least since Sept. 2010
- [1]
- NESIT (The New England Society of Information Technology) is a non-profit hackerspace and charity located in Meriden, Connecticut.
- They raised $3,572 for the Child's Play charity
- Freeside's walkthough - brimstone
- every hackerspace needs to do one of these from time to time.
- Art at Hive76 - brimstone
- "It’s not all about circuits and microcontrollers and chemistry at Hive76"
- Tog's helping out with a hackerspace at Electric Picnic - brimstone
- Make a pocket LED touch, Flapping Birds and Paper flowers, LED bracelet or necklace
- about 90km from Dublin, 3rd & 4th of September
- Managing a Project Community with Github at Archreactor - brimstone
- A presentation at Archreactor
- 9/3/2011
Random Wiki Finds
- 4th Inning - Tim
- Quickstart - Tim
- LapMaster - Nathan
- Hydraulic Jack Letterpress - Nathan
Events
- lvl1 2nd annual sumobot tournament
- LVL1 is holding a sumo-bot tournament October 29th
- Mini Maker Fair Atlanta - Sep. 10
- Workshop: How to torrent - Hive 76 9/13, at 6pm
Conclusion
Thank you for listening. If you questions, comments, basically, we want to hear your thoughts. We'd love to hear from our listeners, please drop in irc, #makerslocal on freenode, or send us an email to podcast@makerslocal.org, you can find out everything about Makers Local 256 on makerslocal.org. Have a good one.
Licensing
Hackerspace Digest is a production of Makers Local 256. Hackerspace Digest is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).