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Open House Tonight (Wednesday)!

Tonight (Wednesday) at open house we have some special events planned.  Starting at 7:00, we’re going to have a round-table ‘scrum’ to discuss projects we are each working on, ideas for collaborations, and most importantly a vote on our leadership for the coming 6 months.  By 8:00 the scrum will be over and the full-on open-house madness will ensue.  Adam is demo-ing his mad scientist skills by showing us how to make our own glow sticks.  Meanwhile, Brendan and Chris will be working on their Boomcase prototype, Sean will be playing with heads-up displays, and Jack will be mocking up a new board game.   Guess what else — both the 3-D printer and the Craft Robo came back on line this week after a long hiatus — come by and you can help us make some celebratory prints!  And the best part:  there will be food and drinks for all!  If you’ve never been to an open Hive76 meeting before, this is a great opportunity.

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Movie Night on November 15th

Next Monday, on the ides of November, Hive76 is hosting a Sci-Fi Movie Night for all of Philly geekdom to enjoy.  You provide the soda, beer, snacks, and your own wonderful selves — Hive76 will provide the movie, the pizza, and the 20′ projection wall theater experience that will melt your face.    We’ll be showing Danny Boyles “Sunshine,” which will start around 8:00, but show up at 6:30 and have some drinks and food with your Hive buddies beforehand.    If you have any questions, contact your hosts, Sean and Jack.

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Make Philly on Nov 11th

Make:Philly is back after a summer vacation, and is kicking off a fall round by events by hosting Peter Bressler of Bresslergroup. From the Make:Philly website:

Peter’s expertise includes user research, human factors application, manufacturing processes and innovative criteria conflict resolution. Peter has authored or co-authored over 60 design and utility patents and has received over 40 national design awards. He is a Past President of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).

Make:Philly is happening on a new time and date, (Thursday night, at 7PM sharp) instead of the classic Sunday afternoon, but the place ( University of the Arts, 211 S. Broad Street, Terra Hall, 5th Floor) is the same. And the Make:Philly meetings are still 50% a great talk by local maker and 50% build challenge, where you build something on the spot to meet a challenge announced at the start of the meeting.

In Short:
What: Make Phily with Peter Bressler
Date: Thursday, November 11th*, 2010 (revised date)
Time: 7PM sharp!
Location: University of the Arts, 211 S. Broad Street, Terra Hall, 5th Floor
ID: Bring your ID with you to sign in at the front desk
Cost: Free!

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DIY BOOMcase

Today Brendan and I bodged together a powered audio suitcase, aka a BOOMcase. It’s not quite the same as one by Mr. Simo, but it does rock pretty well. I cut the holes and Brendan did all the hard stuff like soldering and wiring.
Brendan asked to get more credit then me because he provided the big speaker and the amplifier. Go Brendan!
Details: The amplifier is from old computer speaker system. The suitcase is an American Tourister. I got 8Ohm speakers form a cheap stereo system. A 10″ guitar speaker acts as a passive radiator. The BOOMcase is plugin now, but a battery is in the works.
Video of it being awesome.

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Help Hive76 buy a laser cutter

Hive76, like all hackerspaces, is in need of a laser cutter. The simple engraver I own is not nearly awesome enough. We have been talking about this for a while but I have finally launched a Pledgie to collect funds for a serious-bizness laser cutter.

There is some guidance on what to expect and purchase on Adafruit’s wiki about owning a laser cutter and there are a few members with direct experience.

This process will include some sort of awesome laser fundraising party. If you have any other ideas, leave a comment.

Oh yeah one last thing: DONATE HERE!

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Light Graffiti with The Hacktory tonight!

Our favorite chums at The Hacktory have a cool laser graffiti event tonight, featuring art projections and a chance for the audience to play with light graffiti. It sounds awesome:

Tonight’s our big night as part of DesignPhiladelphia’s Kick-Off. Join us in the Design Lot on South Broad Street across from the Kimmel Center to explore space and time, video and graffiti, technology and art, and play with laser graffiti. More details can be found in city paper’s article.

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ICM7228 Libraries in Development

Here’s a video of a preliminary version of PJ’s ICM7228 library for Arduino.  The 7228 is an LED driver chip that is particularly suited to driving 8×8 LED matrices.  We have a lot of these chips at the Hive, and plenty of 8×8 displays as well, so we’ll see what gets created as a byproduct of the library.