At last night’s weekly hack.rva meeting things were progressing as usual. There were some folks in the workroom, soldering irons in hand putting the final touches on their SpokePOV kits in preparation for the class coming up. Other people were in the conference room checking out some new hardware a member brought in. Out of [...]
I’d say, “Pimp your bike” but it should be “Geek your bike.” Spoke POV (Persistance Of Vision) is a device to attach to a bike wheel to display graphics as the wheel spins. It has a row of LED’s running parallel to the spokes, and they are pulsed in sync with the rotation of the [...]
Hack.rva has moved to 1906 North Hamilton street, Suite E. We are in the back left corner of the courtyard. We have an open meeting every Thursday night from around 7:30 to 10PM. There is no formal meeting. It is just a bunch of people building, destroying, coding, talking about technology, computers, programming, or anything [...]
Everybody needs some class, and hackers are no exception. That’s why we’re calling upon you, blogreading community, to contrive and develop and teach any and all that tickles your inspiration. Be it knitting, quilting, cooking or making of any sort, a class can be made of it. We’d be interested in seeing new and interesting [...]
“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 [...]
