In honor of the successful final mission of the storied Space Shuttle Discovery, we’ve decided at great personal expense to have a last-minute Space Shuttle Discovery** Memorial Hack Fest at NYC Resistor this Saturday, March 12th, from 4:30 to 11 pm! Stop by with your crazy in-progress projects and help them progress! We’ll be having a show and tell at the end of the evening, so stick around and make things move, blink, and buzz!

*We will be selling pre-fried packets of exotic Ramen noodles at the attainable price of one dollar.

**Special thanks to the anonymous NASA employee who managed to snag us one of the hubcaps. We’ll make a plaque!

The inPulse watch is a great platform to hack on. It has an ARM7, 32 KB of flash and 8 KB of RAM, Bluetooth, a buzzer, an OLED screen and a button. Not much by today’s standards, but plenty to play around with. The programming environment is very much like a microcontroller; no multitasking, no dynamic memory, and very constrained memory/cpu. That is, of course, what makes it so much fun. From very basic timekeeping contraction devices to today’s smartwatches, clocks have certainly evolved so much. If you wanna know more about the history or watch news, visit James Hampton-Smith’s blog called SpotTheWatch.
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Go here! Sign up! Learn how to Arduino!

It’s like the previous Arduino post, except that it’s this coming Saturday instead of having already happened. Unless you read this after Saturday, in which case, boy oh boy, you sure did miss an excellent Arduino class. Best one I’ve been to, that’s for sure.

The fabulously awesome Brewshop class is back this Sunday! We’ll teach you all the basics to get you up and running while brewing a batch of beer. You’ll learn about extract brewing, malts, grains, yeasts and how to avoid or troubleshoot the most common problems. All reference materials will be provided as well as a home brew sample for tasting! We’ll have starter kits available for purchase.

Beginners welcome!

Taught by Douglas and John.

Sign up for this class at EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1217909801

Our drink-serving slot machine bar robot is featured on p. 83 of the March 2011 Popular Science. The BarBot was our entry in a Hackerspace Challenge sponsored by VIMBY and Scion.