Hackerspaces

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Flux Clockpacitor, a Nixie Clock

Flux Clockpacitor, a Nixie Clock

I’m loving the work TX/RX Labs, Houston, TX’s hackerspace, is doing these days. Their Flux Clockpacitor is made with DR2000 Numitron nixies, 7-segment drivers, and an Arduino Uno. The intrepid adventurers of our Temporal Archaeology Team have returned from a parallel timeline in which they personally witnessed President Tesla’s WWI victory against Otto Mecha Bismarck […]

TechShop Hosts Young Makers Mixer on Sunday

TechShop Hosts Young Makers Mixer on Sunday

This Sunday afternoon, November 6th, TechShop and the Young Makers program team up to co-host a meet-and-greet at TechShop San Francisco. Young Makers are coming to infiltrate … er … get acquainted with TechShop, recruit TechShop members to become mentors this season, start new clubs to build projects for next spring’s Maker Faire, and generally get to know one another. Autodesk will be there, too, to lead workshops on their new software Sketchbook (on the iPad) and 123D Make (on the PC).

Hackerspace Happenings: Wednesday Edition

Hackerspace Happenings: Wednesday Edition

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 runs weekly(ish) Tuesday(i)s(h). i3 Detroit Halloween Party We’ll have some phat beats dropping and mad costumes. We’ll also […]

(Halloween) Hackerspace Happenings

(Halloween) Hackerspace Happenings

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 runs weekly(ish) Tuesday(i)s(h). Mad Engineer’s Ball at Toronto’s Site 3 CoLabatory Site 3 will be throwing a Halloween […]