Make: Live‘s Hackerspace Roadshow takes you on a virtual journey to hackerspaces around the globe. Above, makers from NYC Resistor in Brooklyn, NY demo their projects including an Inspector Gadget inspired pop up book, a TV-B-Gone NES Light Gun, remote controlled HAM radio base station, and stylish RFID-blocking wallets.
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Hive13 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Hive13 takes us around their impressive space and talks about their lock picking forensics group and their RGB LED window.
- Hive13 MAME Cabinet
- Classes at Hive13
- Hackerspace Open Switch
- Code for Hive13’s Hackerspace Open Switch
- Lockpicking and forensics
- Glass Block LED Matrix
- OSC Controller for Hive13’s Glass Block LED Matrix
Three more hackerspaces after the jump!
Perth Artifactory in Perth, Australia
The Aussies show and tell with their 30,000 volt MIDI instrument they call the Arcophone.
- MïllDřéd, Perth Artifactory’s CNC Milling Machine
- CNC Router, “Swarf-O-Mat”
- Giant Robot
Tokyo Hackerspace in Japan
Tokyo Hackerspace shows off their LOL Shield builds and shares how they melt lead for their radiation detection experiments. We also learn about Safecast, working to put radiation detectors on taxi roofs.
Ace Monster Toys in Oakland, California
These makers show us their huge 100W Exlas 1280 laser cutter, LED blinking art, and a Minecraft Creeper bot.
Show notes:
- Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement book by John Baichtal
- Kit-A-Day Giveaway on MAKE
- Matt’s DIY holography video
- Sylvia’s sewable circuitry video
- Maker Shed Code: 15% off DIY Hologram and LED Sewing kits with code MAKELIVE4 (code good through 12/14)
- Digi-Key prizes: Digital multimeter and a Panavise
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Wednesday December 14, 9pm ET/6pm PT
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