The Mozilla Labs* DemoParty is an upcoming online competition to foster artful development and exploration of Open Web technologies, taking inspiration from the classic DemoScene.

On March 30th 2011, 7pm, Tobias Leingruber** from Mozilla Labs and F.A.T. will present this project together with 2 special guests (TBA), and dive with us into the DemoScene culture and Open Web technology. Join us for a fun evening and free Pizza + Beer!

*Mozilla Labs is a virtual lab where people come together to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies.
Crazy ideas and inspirations are encouraged as we all explore and experiment with brand new ideas in whole new ways. Mozilla Labs is about inspiring and harnessing the intelligence, wisdom, and energy of the Mozilla community; let’s imagine the future of the Web, and then let’s build it together.

**Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) is an artist and communication designer, researching in viral media, popular culture, amateur aesthetics and the future of the web.
As an advocate for openness and freedom online he has worked with many artists and organisations including the F.A.T. Lab, Artzilla.org and Mozilla. Best known for Pirates of the Amazon, Skate the Web and his latest work FB Resistance, he has exhibited work worldwide and has been covered by the NY Times, LA Times, Wired, Spiegel, 3sat(TV) and Liberation.fr.

Some friends of mine have a house in the mountains in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  In the winter they dig a luge track in the (many feet of) snow in their yard and have timed sled races to see who can make it down the fastest. They call it the Mario Cup. I went out there last week with my buddy Mario (a member at Artisan’s Asylum and the namesake of the race) and we made some improvements to the system. Details below.

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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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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.