Just a quick update. A few of us are meeting for cleaning and some planning on Sunday 8/2 from around 1PM to 6PM. If you want to help (and not just gawk) come on down and help out
PhillyCocoa iPhone Deviation, August 4th, 7-10 pm
Bring a project you’re working on or just a general curiosity about coding for iPhone. Exchange knowledge and improve your apps and their interfaces.
We’re continuing efforts on ShareUrMeal — building an open-source iPhone app to be distributed free on the App Store! You can also come to work on your own projects, learn from others, or help with beta testing :-]
WE DID IT!! HIVE76 is GETTING A MAKERBOT!!!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OUR AMAZING DONORS AND SUPPORTERS!!!
Philly just got a HUGE rapid-prototyping upgrade. HOORAY!!
We have ordered our MakerBot CupCake CNC and it will be here soon! Watch for the upcoming workshop on how to use it, September 19th. YAY!!!
Quickpost: Makerbot Pledgie
Since Jordan went to MakerBot ‘Bot Cave’ opening this weekend, we started to pool money to get a MakerBot 3d Printer.
’nuff said!
PhillyCocoa iPhone Deviation, July 28th, 7-10 pm
Bring a project you’re working on or just a general curiosity about coding for iPhone. Exchange knowledge and improve your apps and their interfaces.
We’ll have guests from a local non-profit to discuss our first group project — building an open-source iPhone app for them pro-bono to be distributed free on the App Store! You can also come to work on your own projects, learn from others, or help with beta testing :-]
An interview with ITL
Invisible Things Lab is a sweet little security company. Tom’s Hardware has a great interview with Founder and CEO Joanna Rutkowska, once you get past the first page of obligatory ‘what was your first PC’ questions. Kernel Level rootkits are getting a lot of attention these days, and it’s awesome to read about the hackers that make (or defend against) them.
Having the two opponents (a rootkit and an A/V) operating at the same privilege level (ring 0) doesn’t mean that either of the two is a clear winner in the long term. In fact, in the long term there is always a draw. It’s that malware usually wins in the short-term, and this is pretty bad because, for malware, it is just enough to survive a few weeks (or days maybe even) to do its job.
If anyone is going to Black Hat ’09, you should check ITL’s talk on ‘Attacking Intel BIOS, and Introducing Ring -3 Rootkits’, it should be awesome.
PhillyCocoa iPhone Deviation, July 21st, 7-10 pm
Bring a project you’re working on or just a general curiosity about coding for iPhone. Exchange knowledge and improve your apps and their interfaces.
Cardboard Tube Fighting League
This coming Saturday Cardboard Tube Fighting League is invading Philadelphia, and having an event out front of the art museum. To prep for it, some of us built some cardboard armor and equipment at Hive on Wednesday. There are some photos of it up on flickr, and it you want come check out the awesome action in person by the Art Museum Saturday.
Hive Mind is now Active!
Hopefully this will be just a starting place, because right now I can’t claim credit for much of the design or implementation (Dan did the logo, and Pinax/Eldarion did most of the code), but we now have a small set of web applications for our members to use, communicate, discuss ideas, keep track of GTD, etc. Suggestions, feedback and help are all appreciated in the future development of these tools, but for now, registration is open, though e-mail is not being sent. I recommend using OpenID if you’re comfortable with it, wordpress.com is one of the more widely used providers. Feel free to email me for help or with questions! The site is at http://mind.hive76.org
Around The Table
A lot of geeks are fans of Daft Punk, and it’s not a surprise to find awesome objects or events made as tribute to, or inspired by the band. So with that I bring to to you the Daft Table. It’s an awesome coffeetable that seems to react to music (or is pre-timed) to run a great dance-floor pattern. It’s keen, pretty simple, and just awesome. Every livingroom (and hackerspace) needs one.