This Week: High Speed Photography
Photo by Nebarnix. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic License.
Arduino Night (Wed) 7:00 pm|az @ Gangplank – Conference Room
Come by and hack on Arduino boards with the HeatSync Labs and Gangplank crew this Wednesday night. Whether you’re just getting your feet wet in microcontrollers or are a closeted PIC controller programmer, you’ll have the company of a wide skill range of Arduino hackers to collaborate with, as well as some HSL laptops with the Arduino software preloaded.
HSL Meeting (Thurs) 7:00 pm|az @ Gangplank - Commons Area
This week we'll be shooting things shooting other things, because YO DAWG, high-speed pictures of stuff being shot at is awesome. Additionally, did you miss out on HeatSync Labs's invasion of Maker Faire and Noisebridge last weekend? No worries, we'll be showing of photos from the adventure, but without any boring slideshow narration, for an immersive 2D experience you surely will not want to miss.
As always, t-shirts, membership subscriptions, and Make: magazine subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our Board of Directors.
Gangplank is located on the southeast corner of Elliot and Arizona Ave at:
325 East Elliot Rd. Suite 34
Chandler, AZ 85225
Hackers à La Délivrance: The Untold Story of How HeatSync Labs Saved Toronto’s Nuit Blanche Festival
Editor's Note: As part of my position as Editor at HeatSync Labs, I get to put on a reporter hat and take the spotlight of the Information Super Highway on our local Arizona makers, hackers, and tinkerers. If you or anyone you know is building something pretty awesome and they're within driving distance, leave a comment and I'll see if I can follow up on it. This $timeFrame's featured maker is Sean Hillmeyer, who, along with other volunteers, helped build and operate D A Therrein's 4 Letter Word Machine, featured at the 2009 Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto. He also helped me in writing/editing this piece. 
Photo by Sean Hillmeyer. All rights reserved.
HeatSync Labs has been an active participant in the local community since its inception, bringing together crowds of engineers and artists that would never otherwise have met. As early as September, a mere month after our first meeting at the Mesa F.O.P. Lodge, we were visited by Margaret Bruning, a production manager for the Beatiful Light project. She was invited to speak after receiving an email from D A Therrien, a locally based, but globally connected artist who masterminded the 4 Letter Word Machine, which had then only existed as a smaller-but-still-able-to-ruin-your-day-if-it-fell-on-you prototype, making its debut over the Arizona canal in downtown Scottsdale in January 2009.
Having established a successful show in Scottsdale, Therrien was commissioned to build a version of the 4 Letter Word Machine for the Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto, Canada. Nuit Blanche is French for "White Night," an annual all-night art festival that has spread from France to other parts of Europe and Europey countries; Its essentially like First Friday art walks in American cities, but bigger, brighter, and all night long.
The second installation would require a larger, more powerful display that would need to be transported to Toronto and subject to the scrutiny of Canada's CE regulations as well as its seemingly perpetual cold and windy weather. It would have to be bigger, stronger, and more modular. It would also have to be built in time for Toronto's Nuit Blanche festival in October, where it was to be suspended above Toronto city hall. Time was of the essence, and volunteers were urgently needed.
This Thursday: Nearspace Balloons Come From Idaho Too!
Photo by Nerbarnix. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic License.
HSL Meeting (Thurs) 7:00 pm|az @ Gangplank - Commons Area
Nearspace balloons are great for AZ/CA hackerspace catfights, but did you know they can be used for SCIENCE as well? Jasper did this with the University of Idaho in Soviet Moscow, and will tell us all about how our Idahoan friends accomplished exactly what we plan to do: Send a balloon into space and take pics because it will happen!
As always, t-shirts, membership subscriptions, and Make: magazine subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our Board of Directors.
Gangplank is located on the southeast corner of Elliot and Arizona Ave at:
325 East Elliot Rd. Suite 34
Chandler, AZ 85225
Announcing: Special Edition Black T-Shirt Design Contest!
Photo by Affiliate. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.
Your design here.
That's right girls and boys, HeatSync Labs is announcing our first ever t-shirt design contest! We've pre-ordered several black shirts with a very basic, boring design, and we'd like to solicit the fine citizens of cyberspace to add their own design to make it awesome!
The winner will get one of the shirts they designed in their preferred size, as well as a handful of half-inch HeatSync Labs pinback buttons to put on messenger bags and/or funny hats.
Da Rulez:
- Single color only (logo on the base design is around the neighborhood of #CCCCCC); Can be any 1 color, even black if you enjoy losing
- Design will be applied to front side only
- Design must measure 11" x 17" at 300 DPI
- The winning design will be applied on top of the existing one manually, so don't expect the design to be perfectly aligned most of the time
- Design can be made with glittery ink like the lettering on "juicy" labeled shorts, if specified
Submissions must be sent to joycetang {at} heatsynclabs.org with the subject line "T-Shirt Contest" no later than May 11th, 2010.
*** Deadline Extended til' the end of May! Submit Now! ***
Cinco [y Seis, Siete] De Mayo: Arduino, Papercraft, and More!
Photo by Mélisande*. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.
Arduino Night (Wed) 7:00 pm|az @ Gangplank – Conference Room
There's no better way to prep yourself for a wild, crazy night of playing a leaked Starcraft 2 beta Cinco De Mayo partying than by hacking on Arduino boards with the HeatSync Labs and Gangplank crew. Whether you’re just getting your feet wet in microcontrollers or are a closeted PIC controller programmer, you’ll have the company of a wide skill range of Arduino hackers to collaborate with, as well as some HSL laptops with the Arduino software preloaded.
HSL Meeting (Thurs) 7:00 pm|az @ Gangplank - Commons Area
This week we will have a guest from ASU, Dr. Goran Konjevod, who will be speaking on his mathematically-intense paper craft. If you have an interest in geometry, origami, and making two-dimensional surfaces three-dimensional, you won't want to miss out! Other locals are also working with paper to make awesome things, and if you're among them, stop by and show us what you have.
HSL at First Friday Artwalk (Fri) 6:30 pm|az @ Downtown Phoenix
We're continuing our new tradition of having a presence at the Phoenix First Friday Artwalk again this month, and we're bringing along a weather balloon for mysterious shenanigans. What kind of shenanigans? Find the dudes and gals in lab coats this Friday to find out!
As always, t-shirts, membership subscriptions, and Make: magazine subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our Board of Directors.
Gangplank is located on the southeast corner of Elliot and Arizona Ave at:
325 East Elliot Rd. Suite 34
Chandler, AZ 85225
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