Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings run weekly(ish) Tuesdays, and the next one will come out August 13th.
DIY Geiger-Mueller Counter Workshop at Tokyo Hackerspace
Tokyo Hackerspace is holding a class on building your own Geiger counter:
The 2nd-in-a-row class will be held at THS house, as usual on August 22nd, 19:30-22:30.
The kit consist of 3 parts: motherboard (Freakduino), daugtherboard (NetRAD shield) and radiation sensor (SBM-20 GM tube). If you have any of these, you can use yours, but we’ll have to make sure they are similar enough.
Once assembled, tuned and tested you just connect it to a DHCP-enabled LAN connected to the Internet and it will upload data to Pachube data aggregation service.
Fees are ¥500 for members and ¥1,500 for nonmembers, plus you can buy any of the three components if you don’t have them already.
Women’s Night at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis, MN
Female Hack Factory denizens and visitors are invited to show up for Open Hack on the 30th of August, with meetups planned for the last Tuesday of every month. Doors at 6, festivities begin at 7. If you’d like to participate, just show up or tweet @bones_n_stones.
From Tinkering to Commercialization
Louisville, KY’s LVL1 is co-sponsoring a talk on commercializing maker projects:
LVL1, KSTC, the Louisville Metro Inventors Council and Enterprise Corp are joining forces like a techno-entrepreneurial Justice League to teach makers how to make money, and maybe make Louisville more awesome in the process. From Tinkering to Commercialization – A “How To” Guide is a workshop set up for hardware hackers and inventors that teaches the ins and outs of bootstrapping and commercializing your designs for fun and profit.
Attendees will be introduced to the basics of how to take one’s projects from the garage to commercialization. Speakers will include Tendai Charasika of GLI’s EnterpriseCorp, Alex Frommeyer of Louisville Metro Inventors Council, and Ben Jennings of the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC). This will be a presentation and Q&A, with an emphasis on prototype manufacturing.
DIY Boombox Class at OmniCorp Detroit
Have a suitcase and/or briefcase and like sound? Interested in making things? Come out to OmniCorpDetroit for our Case of Bass class and make your suitcase into a boombox! Speaker kits are available for $60 and include everything you need for your own case (i.e. suitcase not included). This is a two day class!!! Dates are August 11th and August 18th. Please note that the class is $20 if you buy a kit OR have your own amp, speakers, batteries. Also please note that this class DOES NOT include the case. You must bring your own case!
Silent Auction at Site3 coLab
Saturday, August 20th, Toronto, ON’s Site3 will be holding a silent auction:
Once again the maker community of Site 3 is coming together for a fantastic event. We are having an auction!
Show, party and silent auction starting at 7pm. Doors will be open during the afternoon for anyone who would like to preview the works on offer. There will be an option for a ‘buy it now’ bid during the day for anyone determined to acquire any items they can’t resist. Come for the art and other offerings from the Makers of Site 3. Stay for the party!
If you already know Site 3 then you know you shouldn’t miss this. If you aren’t familiar with us yet then here’s the perfect chance to see what the space is all about. Come on out!
ADVERTISEMENT
