We will be offering a members-only CNC class taught by Shannon Haworth. This class will teach basic operations, terminology, maintenance, safety, applications, and programming. You need to take this class if you want to use the CNC mill. This class will be March 17th 1:30pm to 3:30pm. Cost for members is $10 Sign up here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2935507181

We will be holding an Introduction to E-Textiles class taught by Erica Absetz. The class will cover different types of e-textiles and a beginner level project. Participants will receive an Aniomagic Sparkle Kit, which will be used to learn how to sew circuits into fabric. Sparkle is an avant-garde way to make interactive textiles, paper, [...]

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class will be offered at hack.rva by Erica Absetz.  This class will be the first in a series of A.I. Algorithms.  We will use Genetic Algorithms as a starting point because the concepts are easy for beginners to understand. Concepts covered will include Initialization, Selection, Reproduction (which includes crossovers and [...]

Basic C Programming will be taught by Brian Wagner at hack.rva during the month of February.  This class will consist of three separate sections each running three hours in length, it is important to attend all sections to obtain a basic understanding of the C Programming Language. This will be taught in emacs & using [...]

An Introduction to Soldering class will be offered on Saturday February 4, 2012 from 1:30 – 3:30.  The class will be taught by Luke Libraro and held at Hack.rva. Soldering kits will be supplied and participants will be able to take the kit home with them after the class.  After practicing your soldering techniques on [...]

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 [...]