Arduino for Total Newbies with Mitch Altman
Mitch gives his soldering workshop at fizzPOP. Photo by Nikki Pugh
Hey Arizona! Hackerspace luminary and co-founder of Noisebridge Mitch Altman will be in the Valley over Thanksgiving weekend. Mitch will be hosting his world-famous Arduino for Total Newbies workshop at HeatSync Labs! Learn everything it takes to go from newbie to owning a completed TV-B-Gone. This mythical device has the magical ability to turn off all the TVs within range, through the wonders of Infrared, and you can create one with the guidance of Mitch.
The workshop will cover soldering your board, introductory Arduino programming using the BoArduino platform and finally modifying it in to a TV-B-Gone. Space is limited to 30 people for this workshop. This is a great stepping stone for anyone who wants to get involved with Arduino or microelectronics and who doesn't know where to dive in, so be sure to sign up ASAP!
Arduino For Total Newbies workshop
Saturday 26-Nov, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
This Week in Pics Because it Happened
HeatSync Labs operates at regular hours, with events and activities happening on a near-daily basis! Pics because it happened:
- Will and Ryan continue hacking on their Minecon projects, this time learning the art of collar making. Photo by Will Bradley.
- Fletcher and his fellow FourSquare hackers gather for the world Foursquare API hackathon. Photo by Ryan Rix.
- Prescott picks the lock of the HAM shack the easy way. Photo by Jasper Nance.
- Young member Joey Hudy designed, prototyped and produced his own Arduino shield, for making a 3x3x3 LED grid. Photo from Look What Joey's Making.
Last Week in Pics Because it Happened
(Left to Right)
- Will does a wood etching that is far too large for our laser to properly handle. Photo by Will Bradley.
- Will designed an LED whiteboard as well! Photo by HeatSync Labs
- The SEM vacuum chamber is back from K-Zell Metals with new air-tight welds! Photo by HeatSync Labs
- Folks from FUBAR labs, who developed the Chipkit software, stopped by to see the lab and show off new ChipKit shields. Photo by HeatSync Labs
Mission Accomplished: HeatSync Labs has a Laser Cutter!
More than six months ago, the HeatSync Labs community rallied together to raise funds for our very own laser cutter. After raising OVER 9000 dollars from our community and friends we ordered a laser cutter from China and began waiting. And waiting. Our champion Jeremy entered combat against the forces of US Customs and the FDA, who foolishly thought we'd use the laser for etching body parts medical purposes and sent it through the portal to The Inspection Nether.
It was a battle of epic proportions with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jeremy emerged victorious months later, holding a shipping invoice in his hands. And we had our very own laser cutter.
Photo by Ryan Rix. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Generic License.
Congratulations go to the community who made this possible, including every one who donated to the fund, and everyone who put in their sweat, blood and time to make it happen.
However, the community still has much work to do before the cutter is operational and completely installed in the space.So, come on down to HeatSync Labs, check out our new toy and find out how you can help push this project to its final stage: AWESOME CUTTING THING OF AWESOME. We have electrical systems that need to be built out, documentation to write, and a laser to prime, calibrate and test. Whether you are a member or not, stop by any time during our normal business hours, Monday through Friday from 7-10pm, so stop by and lend a hand!
And remember kids, it's not a toy.
Photo by Ryan Rix. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Generic License.
This Week in Pics Because it Happened
HeatSync Labs operates at regular hours, with events and activities happening on a near-daily average! Pics because it happened:
Wanted: Blogger-in-Chief
Photo by Kate Raynes-Goldie. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) license.
As part of our recent restructuring of the HeatSync administration to include an operations team, we're now looking for a skilled writer to take command of the heatsynclabs.org blog, which gets mad linkage and will associate your writing with an organization known all over the Phoenix valley area and beyond. If you think you have what it takes to consistently update the World Wide Web with the latest scoop on HeatSync news and interview local makers on their projects in a way that captivates your audience and doesn't bore them, we want you!
If you're interested, please contact board at heatsynclabs.org and send links to samples of your writing. This is a volunteer position, the only payment we can offer is in bitcoin internet famousness and semi-journalistic experience.
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
This Week in Pics Because it Happened
HeatSync Labs operates at regular hours, with events and activities happening on a near-daily average! Pics because it happened:
This Week in Pics Because it Happened
HeatSync Labs operates at regular hours, with events and activities happening on a near-daily average! Pics because it happened:
(Jun 25) Moving Day!
Photo by HeatSync Labs. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license.
Moving Day! (Saturday, June 25th, 10am) @ HeatSync Labs at Gangplank
Many hours of hard work have been invested by our volunteers to help fix up and paint the former Glitter Box into the home of the largest hackerspace in the American southwest. We still have much work to do, and this Saturday we'll be finishing our move from Chandler to Mesa, the city where HeatSync Labs first held its meetings at the F.O.P. Lodge in 2009. We have a truck/trailer on loan for us to use for the move, but we need people to move stuff on and off of it and into the new space. If you have a truck yourself, please bring it along and we'll be sure to put it to good use.
Once we've completed the move, future events will take place in Mesa starting Monday, June 27th. Our grand opening will take place in early July once we actually have furniture for people to sit on. Become a member today to make that happen faster!
HeatSync Labs at Gangplank is located on the northwest corner of Frye and Arizona at:
260 South Arizona Ave.
Chandler, AZ 85225
HeatSync Labs Mesa is located east of Robson on Main Street at:
140 W Main St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
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