The first Python class is over! Thanks to all who attended! At the class we tinkered with Tkinter and slung SQL commands with SQLite. Next time there may be some GTK programming tossed in, or possibly a bazaar breakout for those that have never tried version control. Now it’s your turn! I’m placing a call [...]

This Saturday, from 10:30am to 04:00pm, is the Introduction to Python Programming class by Clint Grimsley. We’ll be covering a wide range of topicalities and tools to help everyone get started in a language that’s equally suited to rapid application prototyping as well as full scale application development and heavy data-lifting. You too can learn [...]

The hackerspace wall was awash with the faces of Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and others last night as we viewed Revolution OS. This film chronicles the rise of the Open Source and Free Software movements complete with some of their best successes and largest failures. Successes covered: The release of Netscape source-code to eventually [...]

Join us on Saturday, April 3rd at 8pm for our first Hackathon!  We will be going until everyone leaves, so bring some energy drinks and be prepared to hack all night! Projects that HackRVA is sponsoring: -RFID Access System -Adventure-O-Matic by Clint  Titsworth -Luke Libraro will be working on the MakerBot If you have any projects [...]

Thanks to all who came out yesterday!  I hope you learned something and am happy that a couple of you decided to become members. We had a few hiccups with sharing the space and getting some things to work later on, but I feel like we did a great job of covering a lot of [...]