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Overview

• 11th Show.
• Recording time: ? 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

Introduction

This is Hackerspace Digest episode number 11 for ?, 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).

Outerz0ne special!!

Sponsor

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Makers Local 256 update

• Pig Roast
• LAN Party

Stories

• Alpha one Labs' Donate to Motivate Campaign - brimstone
• Harford Hackerspace's Tron Identity Disc Mod - brimstone
  • Baltimore, MD don't mess this one up Matt
  • Based on netduino, which is arduino but uses .NET framework, MAX7219, 33 LEDs
• Phillip Torrone's The Arduino won - brimstone
  • He's one half of Adafruit
  • Accessibility: "If you want to make an LED blink or a motor move without using an Arduino, good luck if you’re an artist or designer."
  • IDE, Driver and Serial interface "Just work"
  • "The board was not designed by a chip maker"
  • It's Cheap
  • OSS + OSH allow for knock-offs and entrance into schools.
  • "Within the next 5 to 10 years, the Arduino will be used in every school to teach electronics and physical computing"
• Arduino: The Documentary - brimstone
  • Rodrigo Calvo and Raúl Aleges
• Tokyo Hackerspace helps the relief effort in Japan -CrashCart
  • http://freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/Misc/Thanks-for-all-the-support-And-what-s-coming-up.html
  • http://www.tokyohackerspace.org/en/japan-in-crisis
    • Seeed help the effort to create an Open Source Radiation Detector
    • http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2011/03/16/radiation-detector-help-needed/
    • Akiba

Events

• Outerz0ne 7 - brimstone
• Notacon 8 - brimstone

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).