(Thursday) Board Meeting and Hack Your Hackerspace
It's not this dull looking, we promise! Photo by Northeast Indiana
This Thursday is our quarterly board meeting. The board will be discussing a number of topics outlined on this scheduled agenda. All members in good standing are encouraged to attend the meeting and voice opinions on the topics that matter. We will be starting promptly at 7:00 PM in the common area downstairs.
Afterwards, we'll be holding our bi-monthly hackerspace hacking session! We'll have a list of tasks to accomplish for Great Justice, as well as a chance for the membership to steer the direction our space is headed.
(Jan 4) Arduino Hacknight!
It's a Sparkfun-induced holiday at HeatSync Labs! Photo by Ryan Rix
Hey, HeatSync, what awesome toys did you get for the Holidays? This Wednesday we'll be hosting our monthly Arduino hacknight so you can come by and show off the cool toys you got and build something awesome!
As an added bonus we also got a ton of awesome new sensors and boards to play with!
- XBee modules
- Touch Shield
- VoiceBox Shield
- Compass Module
- Humidity and Temperature Sensor
- IR Receiver
- Vibration Sensor
- Gas sensors
- ... and more!
All HeatSync Labs meetings are open to the public for free; Cover charges are for Scottsdale night clubs! If you really want to give us money though, t-shirts, membership and sponsorship subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our volunteers.
HeatSync Labs is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
Tue (Dec 20): Meet the Mesa Arts Center and Creativity Festival
Photo by joelstine. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA- 2.0) License.
(Tue Dec 20) 7:00 pm|az @ HeatSync Labs - Kipp Hall
This Tuesday Cindy Ornstein, Director of the Mesa Department of Arts and Culture, will join us to talk about all the amazing resources available at the Mesa Arts Center. Available classes range from steel making and bladesmithing to glass working and firing! She'll also be talking about the upcoming Creativity Festival HeatSync will be participating in next spring. Robert Bell and Jacob Rosenthal have been tapped to organize Heatsync's involvement and several working groups have already begun meeting to talk about Arduino-fied interactive installations, a touch based water interface, analog and digital architectural projection, and more. Help us work on these, or get your own project spotlighted at this festival!
All HeatSync Labs meetings are open to the public for free; Cover charges are for Scottsdale night clubs! If you really want to give us money though, t-shirts, membership and sponsorship subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our volunteers.
HeatSync Labs is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
Thursday: Board Elections!
Ya voté, CC-BY-NC-SA by Gerry Brague
Thursday (Oct 13): Hack Your Hackerspace and Board Meeting
It's meeting time! Photo licensed under CC-BY 2.0 by Voka Kamer van Koophandel Limburg
This Thursday is our quarterly board meeting. The board will be discussing and voting on a number of topics and proposals outlined on this schedule. All members in good standing are encouraged to attend the meeting and voice opinions on the topics that matter. We will be starting promptly at 7:00 PM in the common area downstairs.
Afterwards, we'll be holding our bi-monthly hackerspace hacking session! We'll have a list of tasks to accomplish for Great Justice, as well as a chance for the membership to steer the direction our space is headed.
This Thursday (Sep 15): Hot Topics
This is not Hot Topic. Photo by Thomas Hawk
Thursday 15 September 2011 7:00 pm
Hot Topics Presentations at HeatSync Labs
Hey Arizona, what are you making? Whether it's an electron microscope or a human powered helicopter or browser-based games or any number of projects we have yet to hear about, the community is working on some awesome projects. This Thursday, HeatSync Labs is giving the community aplatform to show off those projects in our first Hot Topics night!
Named in honor of every one's favourite pseudo-goth shopping establishment, Hot Topics gives the community five minutes to get on a soapbox and talk about the awesome project they're working on. Whether you are looking to show off something that's already been done, or looking for a chance to get excited people interested in your next greatest idea, come by this Thursday at 7pm! If you are interested in presenting your project, please email ry@n.rix.si ahead of time so that we can do some scheduling.
UPDATE:
The first batch of talks is as such:
- Ryan Rix, Introductions
- Will Bradley, LED Matrix, laser engraving and fabrics project
- Jasper Nance, SEM Project update
- Harry Meier, Transcranial DC stimulation
- Prescott Ogden, Introduction to Bitcoin
- Killhamster, Introduction to Buttcoin
- Isaac Olson, Local Motors' Open Source Car
- Clark Jones, Digital Altimeters
We are still looking for more talks, though, so email Ryan with a name and a title!
All HeatSync Labs meetings are open to the public for free; Cover charges are for Scottsdale night clubs! If you really want to give us money though, t-shirts, membership and sponsorship subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our volunteers.
HeatSync Labs is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
Electronic Music Night
Escher's Barber Shoppe - Buchla 200e module. Photo by guiltyx
The Electronic music scene shares a lot in common with the hackerspace scene; people playing with and sharing circuits that do awesome things. After a live performance at our One Year Anniversary Mustache Party, we are welcoming back Thru the Wires to HeatSync Labs for a presentation on the art of circuit bending and electronic music!
Whether you've dinked around with your own circuit bending patches, or you've never touched a synth in your life, Menagam and Dim will be showing off their art and how they made it this Thursday. Mengam writes:
I will be using a self made patch (MaxMSP) to manipulate my waves with a
random assortments of goodies, which will then manipulate video to the
tempo. The patch will be using max and jitter to create an audio/visual
image.
And Dim will be showing off how to use CMOS in your electronic music setups.
If you've ever had more than a passing fancy at doing your best Bit Shifter impression or just enjoy making loud scratching sounds, or even if you just want to sit back and learn how the pros do it, make sure you're at HeatSync Labs this Thursday at 7:00pm! If you're lucky there will even be some live demos by Dim and Menagam!
All HeatSync Labs meetings are open to the public for free; Cover charges are for Scottsdale night clubs! If you really want to give us money though, t-shirts, membership and sponsorship subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our volunteers.
HeatSync Labs is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
Mold Making and Resin Casting
- Resin mold in progress; Photo by Troy Wandzel released under CC-BY-NC-ND license
Danny, from Downtown Mesa's very own Rusted Nail Gallery will be giving an overview of the art of resin casting. Whether you are looking for a way to create that little doo-dad for your next project, or a full sized replica of Bre Pettis's head, resin making provides an interesting solution to your problems, and Danny will be giving an overview of the mold making and casting process.
Resin casting provides hobbyists with an easy and cheap solution for model making, compared to large-scale solutions like injection molding. Stop by this Thursday at 7:00 pm to learn the art of mold making from one of our local artists!
All HeatSync Labs meetings are open to the public for free; Cover charges are for Scottsdale night clubs! If you really want to give us money though, t-shirts, membership and sponsorship subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our volunteers.
HeatSync Labs is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
This Week: (Aug 3) Arduino Night and (Aug 4) Tear Apart Night!
Photo by hslphotosync. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
Arduino Night (Wed Aug 3) 7:00 pm|az @ HeatSync Labs - Kipp Hall
Come by and hack on Arduino boards with the HeatSync Labs crew this Wednesday night. Whether you’re just getting your feet wet in microcontrollers or build your own Arduino shields, you’ll have the company of a wide skill range of Arduino hackers to collaborate with, as well as a few HSL laptops with the Arduino software preloaded.
Tear Apart Night (Thurs Aug 4) 7:00 pm|az @ HeatSync Labs - Kipp Hall
A lot of technologies are sold as boxes that do our magic for us, but what actually makes these devices tick? Our recurring Tear Apart Nights help to demystify the inner workings of our technologies and get rid of the stigma behind voiding the warranty on things you own. Regain ownership of your possessions!
All HeatSync Labs meetings are open to the public for free; Cover charges are for Scottsdale night clubs! If you really want to give us money though, t-shirts, membership and sponsorship subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our volunteers.
HeatSync Labs is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
This Week: (Jul 6) Arduino Night and (Jul 7) Hacking Leather
Photo by lorenzolambertino. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license.
Arduino Night (Wed Jul 6) 7:00 pm|az @ HeatSync Labs - Kipp Hall
Come by and hack on Arduino boards with the HeatSync Labs crew this Wednesday night. Whether you’re just getting your feet wet in microcontrollers or build your own Arduino shields, you’ll have the company of a wide skill range of Arduino hackers to collaborate with, as well as a few HSL laptops with the Arduino software preloaded.
HSL Meeting (Thurs Jul 7) 7:00 pm|az @ HeatSync Labs - Kipp Hall
Join us for a overview of leather working with Bry, a professional member of the Tandy Leather Factory in Tempe. If you've ever been interested in creating your own leather handiworks and crafts, we'll be going over the basics in preparation for a hands-on workshop in the near future. Stay tuned!
All HeatSync Labs meetings are open to the public for free; Cover charges are for Scottsdale night clubs! If you really want to give us money though, t-shirts, membership and sponsorship subscriptions will be available and hustled aggressively by our volunteers.
HeatSync Labs is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
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