“Many hands light work makes.” Jim D. told me that. I’m too ignorant to know who he was quoting, but I reckon it’s true. It started at 0700 on Saturday, the 24th day of July, 2010. I was tasked with porting the hack.rva wiki from it’s current location to a new one with better access [...]

Join us on Friday, June 4th at 8pm for our second Hackathon! We will be going until everyone leaves, so bring some energy drinks and be prepared to hack all night! Projects planned thus far: Robotic Beer Cooler If you have ideas please let us know! The Facebook event page is here:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125837687443565

hack.rva held a class on the Arduino microcontroller on Saturday, February 27th. Almost 30 people came, and lots of learning occurred. Designed for complete beginners to programming and circuit construction, participants learned about wiring the Arduino, the basics of an Arduino sketch, digital input/outputs, Analog inputs/ outputs(PWM), conditional statements, functions, and much more. It was [...]

Sorry for the delay on this post but we had a couple people come on out for a remix manifesto. It was a very insightful movie and brought to light many problems with our copyright system in the US. I must say it was a very convincing argument for the open source movement and illustrated what hardships artists [...]

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is [...]

This past Saturday, November 14th, hack.rva hosted it’s first Electronics Recycling Swap Meet. By 9AM members of the River City’s first hacker space gathered at their (not so) secret lair to serve as a receiving station for unwanted computers, peripheral devices, and other electronics. Thanks go out to all those who attended and those who [...]

Hey all, Luke from hack.rva. The guys are really busy with filming and traveling all over the world, so they’ve asked me to write a quick update for them about the portion of their adventure that I shared with them. They were staying in Washington, D.C. with Nick Farr, and he was generous enough to [...]