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DIY Space Exploration Takes Flight

DIY Space Exploration Takes Flight

I visited the Citizen Astronaut and Space Hacker Workshop in Silicon Valley this weekend, hosted by Hacker Dojo, to see what’s new and exciting in DIY space stuff. This much is clear after just the first day: If you haven’t explored it before, now is the time to start looking in to sending your experiments into the mesosphere (and beyond).

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Hackerspace Happenings for April 29

Hackerspace Happenings for April 29

Are you a hackerspace member? We want to know about cool projects you are working on, or have completed, tools you’re using, fun stories about your space and its members, best practices you’d like to share with other spaces, etc. Say you build a new CNC mill–we want to hear about it! Maybe a member […]

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Alpha One Labs Grand Opening Party

Alpha One Labs Grand Opening Party

Brooklyn, NY’s Alpha One Labs hackerspace is throwing a grand opening party (May 18th at 7pm) and fundraiser to buy a sign for their storefront as well as to bank funds in order to keep 3 months’ rent in the kitty. Your contribution will allow us to thrive without the need of additional funding. We’ve […]

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Light-up E-Textile Kits and More from Fay Shaw

Light-up E-Textile Kits and More from Fay Shaw

Crafter and engineer Fay Shaw, founder of bitwise E-textiles, is bringing both her charming light-up plush kits and her experience as a woman engineer and Maker to the Maker Faire Bay Area.

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HackPHX’s Arduino Hackathon Recapped

HackPHX’s Arduino Hackathon Recapped

This 3-hour(!) video covers the meaty parts of HackPHX’s 8-hour Arduino hackathon, which had ten teams of hackers playing with the ShieldBot Arduino shield. See photos of the event for more hackathon goodness.

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