Europe has some pretty awesome hacker camps, but ToorCamp is the only one in the States that I know of. ToorCamp, the American hacker camp, first “launched” at the Titan-1 Missile Silo in Washington State in 2009. We’re continuing the tradition on the beautiful Washington Coast and are looking for groups to participate. Show off […]
robfitz on the hackerspaces.org blog put out a call for hackerspaces to participate in this month’s global synchronous hackathon. The challenge for the June Synchronous Hackathon is inspired by Adam Savage, the co-host of MythBusters, who gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. In Adam’s talk titled “Why […]
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). The Power Racing Series Needs Your Help! Hackerspace favorite Power Racing Series needs funding to continue […]
Willow Brugh checks out uber hacker Rob Flickenger’s latest project, a don’t try this at home Tesla gun!
I got a chance to check out the Mill and it’s pretty cool! If you’re in Minneapolis, be sure to stop by for a visit. In the meantime, check out this Thrillist video (which I couldn’t get to embed in this post, alas.) Remember shop class? Of course not, because you went to public school, […]
Here is my theory: Occult institutions evolve out of professional
guilds after they stop caring about how to actually build things.
Our friend Daniel Gentleman went to the Parallax Robotics and Microcontrollers Expo in April, and he wrote the following trip report for us.
