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Hackerspace Happenings: GGHC Winner Announced

Hackerspace Happenings: GGHC Winner Announced

Great Global Hackerspace Challenge Winner Crowned As MAKE online editor and GGHC judge Gareth Branwyn related earlier this week, Hackerspace Charlotte took down the challenge with a very impressive entry, Feltronics, which consists of felt shapes resembling IEEE schematic symbols, but actually function thanks to actual electronic components built into the felt. Ann Arbor Mini […]

Hacking Club-Mate

Hacking Club-Mate

Club-Mate is a German club beverage that basically consists of lightly-carbonated, lightly-sweetened, heavily caffeinated tea. Somehow it was adopted by the German and Austrian hacker scene as their official staying-up-late-and-coding beverage. It’s become so popular that it’s been imported to the U.S. where it fetches prices as high as $10 a bottle. Despite these hurdles, […]

GGHC Finalist Profile — Hackerspace Charlotte

GGHC Finalist Profile — Hackerspace Charlotte

  #google_ads_div_mz_hackerspace_125x125_ad_container { float:right; margin:-14px 0 5px 10px; } // Tuesday and last week we profiled two of the three finalists of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge — Pumping Station: One’s Biosdensor Array and BuildBrighton’s Phonicubes. Today we cover Hackerspace Charlotte‘s excellent tool for teaching electronics, Feltronics. The project consists of felt shapes resembling electronics […]