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Overview

• 17th Show.
• Recording time: November 17, 2011

Show Format

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

Introduction

This is Hackerspace Digest episode number 17 for Wednesday Nov 17, 2011. Hackerspace Digest is a semi-weekly podcast recorded by member of Makers Local 256 in Huntsville, Al. You 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).

Makers Local 256 update

• Open House

Stories

• Composing music with awk --brimstone
  • That thing Brimstone talked about last episode
  • append "| pacat -p --raw --channels=2 --rate=4000 --format=u8"

• Print your own t-slot beams --brimstone
  • looks similar to 80/20, missing center whole
  • castable?

• Should printable weapons be banned on thingiverse? Discuss --brimstone
  • Login! Vote!

• School Factory's Space Camp --brimstone
  • Similar to CCCamp and the Meetup we did.
  • Ideally held in a museam
  • Looking for attributes of a proper Hackerspace Village
  • Sometime 2013?

• New Book: Hack This!
  • "24 incredible hackerspace projects form the DIY moevment
  • Written by John Baichtal

• The combined / House4Hack team won the Google+ Hackathon JHB 2011. --brimstone
  • House4Hack hackerspace in Johannesburg
  • Remote Control
  • Webcam
  • Google+
  • Lasers
  • Need I say more?

• [ bGeigie Hackerspace World Tour!]
  • "basically a geiger counter paired with an arduino and a GPS module which gets strapped to a car and driven around."
  • go to their site and sign up to have it come to your hackerspace.

• The Dutch collaboration of hackerspaces released their Space API. --brimstone
  • JSON
  • "Standard interface"

Random Wiki Finds

• Suicide Prevention from Noisebridge
• I'm not sure if this is related, but Ilya Zhitomirskiy passed away recently. He was developer at Diaspora and hung out at Noisebridge.
• List of NO-NOs about a laser cutter from Pumping Station One
• FAQs from Pumping Station One
• We need a Name from Makers Local 256
  • Started March 11 2007
• How to Party from Pumping Station One
  • Best page ever.

Events

• The Light Amplification Tour
  • Midsouth Makers / Memphis, TN
  • THIS Saturday at noon
  • Not related to this event, but its a cool laser project. RGB laser projector is a jaw-dropping build
• Digital Meets Physical: A Hardware Hackathon
  • AS220 Labs / Providence, RI
  • January 28-29, 2012
  • (not the same weekend as the Global Synchronous Hackathon...)
• Synchronous Hackathon

Conclusion

Thank you for listening. If you questions, comments, or basically anything, we want to hear your thoughts. 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).