Author: JackZylkin

See the full video here.

(Also featured is the Hacktory’s Brad Litwin.)

This summer, Hive76 embarked on a mission to teach more than 100 youngsters how to solder, and to promote making and inventing as a life skill.  We teamed up with Neighborhood Bike Works, a bicycle co-op and youth program which we have a huge crush on, to offer a series of classes for their summer campers.  After raising money by selling kits at the Trenton Arts Fest, and receiving some generous donations from our members, we bought a truckload of class supplies and recruited great teachers from Hive76 and the Hacktory.   The classes taught basic soldering skills, some elementary electricity, and applied these ideas to building electronic odometers and safety lights,  which were developed here at Hive76. 

We had a blast, and hopefully we’ll be doing more events for young ones in the future.  If you have an idea for a youth-outreach class, let us know!

The worlds funkiest electrical engineering major  shows the Sesame Street kids the joys of technology and music! Check it out!

Also, check out him and Q talking shop about rad 80s synth technology here.

Though I’m personally more of a fan of his 70’s work with analog and electro-acoustic instruments: here and here

As long as we are talking about great women in science, I just want to give big ups to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.  To say she was precocious is an understatement.  At age 19, she wrote a dark and thrilling novel that questioned the blind optimism of the Enlightenment, and forsaw what fearful implications the new “natural philosphy”  would come to have.  We still look to Frankenstein to frame our debates about genetic experimentation, nuclear energy, and pretty much everything related to scary, cutting edge science.

Some sweet photos from Hive76’s Guitar Effects 101 Class class last month. Thanks for the photos, Brendan!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Just to clarify:  The guitar effects Study Group is meeting on Sunday, the 10th,  for a class (which is now sold out).   There will be no Guitar Effect Study Group tonight.