Mitch Altman at Xin Che Jian in Shanghai Shanghai hackers take note, Mitch Altman will be giving a talk on “Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers” on April 17th at 2pm. Mini Maker Faire at the Hack Factory this Weekend The Minne-Faire is fast approaching, April 9th, 2011 from Noon-11PM – Please tell your friends! There […]
How cool is that? From Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog:
We have a problem. And it’s growing at a rate proportional to our return pile. We can’t, in good conscience, resell damaged electronics. And we can’t donate them to charity–the saddest kid in the world is one with a handheld video game that won’t turn on. Garbage, then? Not good for the environment. Luckily for us, there’s an entire class of scavengers out there ready to pick the bones of our helicopters, keyboards, and interactive t-shirts: hackers, makers, and crafty techy types.
They’re even polling interest in a possible subscription service. [Thanks, John!]
In this installation of Hackerspace Happenings, I’m interviewing Akiba of Freaklabs about the efforts of Tokyo Hackerspace to help out in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident. John Baichtal: How did Tokyo Hackerspace members react to the disaster? Akiba: I don’t think anyone could really ignore what was going on. The mailing […]
Check out the scanning electron microscope Ben Krasnow made. It’s a fine example of some of the higher-end DIY lab equipment starting to show up in garages and hackerspaces around the world.
I swung by the new Alpha One Labs digs in north Brooklyn last night for their weekly open-meeting. Just before the meeting was about to begin, a representative from Red Bull (one of our sponsors from the World Maker Faire last year) stopped by to drop off some product, along with a mysterious wooden box.
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 will run weekly Tuesdays, and the next one will come out March 29th. The Great Global Hackerspace Challenge […]
We had a massive turnout for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area’s Town Hall meeting in San Francisco Tuesday evening. The folks at TechShop SF were kind enough to lend us their space for the meeting and to give walking tours of the facility. Makers from all over the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad were able to meet with the Maker Faire Crew in-person, establish new connections, and kick the season off with a bang. Also on hand to satiate the frenzied crowd of risk-takers, doers, and makers of things were the folks from The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in South Park with monster gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and cups of smoky tomato soup. Yum!
