The Vancouver Community Lab is having a party this Saturday, Jan 28th at 8pm.
Please feel free to come by and say hi.
Also, there are still a few spots left in the welding course on Sunday, Jan 29th from 1pm to 4pm.
Please sign up at the eventbrite site if interested.
The cost is $60 for non-members, and includes access to the metal shop on a ‘metal Wednesday’ evening of your choice.
2012 is already a great year with so many amazing projects at the Vancouver Hack Space!
Automated manufacturing is huge at the ‘space. The Sherline mill is now being debugged & calibrated. I can barely wait to learn how to use it! Meanwhile Peter is building a Skycam style CNC machine for light painting, John is working hard on a quadrature encoded delta robot with machine vision, and I’m converting my Delta robot to use stepper motors instead of hobby servos.
Sherline mill - amateurs beware!
Makerbot MK6 Stepstruder
Do you like 3D printing? So do we! Derek was showing off his Prusa printed squirrel with 0.1mm layer height. The layers are so small that it almost looks vacuum molded. Colin is carefully hand-crafting a controller for his Mendel. Watching him solder is like your moment of Zen. So meticulous and peaceful. On the other side of the table, JF was printing a sweet new keychain on the Makerbot, which also got a gojira sized spool for dispensing ABS. Good thing, too – that machine is available to anyone with a model to print and is ridiculously popular. Did you know we’ve got enough printers now that we could have a race?
Crafts and fashion galore!
So much material to make with... *wipes drool*
All Signs point to VHS
Intrigued? Come for a visit on our Tuesday open nights. Luke took the VHS el-wire sign out of storage and rigged it near the window as a friendly welcome sign for new visitors. Just follow the foot-tall purple letters to our door and ring the bell. We’ll grill you like the french kuhniggits and then lower a key to you. Concerned you’ll get lost on the way? Give us a call (+1-778-785-5982) and one of the members will be happy to escort you safely to our door.
It’s time for Super Happy Hacker House No. 19! Please join us this Saturday for a night of hacking and socializing at VHS. Bring a project you’re working on, or just come down and find out what Vancouver’s hackers, crafters, and makers are working on. Bring beer, too, if that’s your thing.
This is a free and open event. Members and non-members alike are welcome to attend.
When: Saturday 7 January 2012, 7pm until late
Where: Vancouver Hack Space, 45 West Hastings St. — back alley entrance (map)
Here’s a time-lapse video from the last SHHH.
Biopoiesis (currently in progress) is a series of experiments exploring the relationships between structure, matter, and self-organization, with a goal toward the development of autonomous computation and control systems in a computational “primordial soup”. It is based on the work of cyberneticist Gordon Pask and his research into electrochemical control systems that had the ability to adaptively construct their own sensors. This series of DPrime projects demonstrates the computational possibilities of natural processes that might serve as an alternative to the more commonplace digital forms of computation.
http://dprime.org/projects/bio
We’ll just be doing a short demo, answering questions and discussing strategies for possible future workshops. Hope to see you there!
Biopoiesis from DPrime Research on Vimeo.
Where: VHS
When: 7:30pm Dec 20th, 2011 Tuesday
Talker: Carlos
Bottom liner: Steven Smethurst
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