Steve Holden & Jacob Kaplan-Moss are teaching a couple NYC based classes. (ZOMGBLT THE Steve Holden! SQUEE!) Steve is teaching Intro to Python, and Jacob is teaching Practical Django Skills. (Django is pretty cool web framework from what I’ve seen…
Mitch Altman is in town next, and will be giving one of his famous workshops at NYC Resistor. Mitch has taught thousands of people to solder and make cool things with microcontrollers at his workshops at hacker spaces and hacker…
Last night I found this in my fortune cookie. I have no idea if my local chinese food place got shipped some novelty fortune cookies, or if this is simply a real case of error messages making it into my…
I wanted to see what would happen if I put a ceramic (stoneware) dish under the lazzzor. I started with the settings for etching glass, but the laser handbook only recommends raster settings, and I wanted to try vector engraving…
James P Hogan may not be a name you are familiar with. I certainly wasn’t aware of him when I picked up this book on the recommendation of a friend. But, he is someone you should be aware of. His…
Every tech blog on the planet is covering CES. I’m not. I don’t get to spend a week in vegas hanging out and seeing the new technologies. I have to go to work. I cry, and sometimes I wonder what…
We got word today of a few e-waste recycling events coming up, sponsored by the nice people at the Lower East Side Ecology Center. All collection sites run from 10am to 4pm. Saturday, January 9, 2010 @ Riverside Drive at…
The crew from Vice’s Motherboard.tv came out to talk with us a bit about the Hackerspace and DIY movements, and has put up their video today. Thanks to Alex and the rest of the crew, the video turned out great!
One of the busiest meeting nights in awhile. Just about standing room only.
Happy New Year Blog Readers! We read your comments. I promise to try and blog more. If you want to see more than the occasional completed project… then so be it!