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We are planning on running a Intro to puppet making workshop on Monday, March 26th, 2012 (craft night) I am by no means an expert in the art of puppet making but with experience I would like to get good at it. Last week we made some simple puppets that I think turned out well. Bring [...]
Biolesce is an art project exploring bioluminescent dinoflagellates through physical computing. The dinoflagellates emit light when physically agitated (moved). We will discuss this work-in-progress, the various configurations tried out thus far, and a demonstration of a simple arrangement of motors and dinoflagellates. Where: 45 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC When: Thursday, 23 Feb, 2012 @ 7pm
The Vancouver New Music Festival 2012 will be dedicated to hacking electronics and glitch The term glitch is generally used to describe a short-lived fault in a system, or a break from a flow within a system, which was designed to work as a coherent entity and to follow its set of objectives. With this [...]
Sick of under-utilizing your smart phone? Want to share your experience with twilio integration? Need to confess your tablets ability to help you cope with the singularity? come get your phreak on this tuesday at VHS’s PHN. Iphones, Nokias, Androids, etc.. all are welcome this is a OSism free event. Possible Round Tables: on PBX [...]
It’s time for a swag/flair-making night! Let’s get ready to show our enthusiasm for Maker Faire at the “Meet your Makers” kick-off party, happening on March 15th at the Museum of Vancouver! What: Vancouver Mini Maker Faire Swag/Flair-making Night When: Monday, February 27th, 7:30pm Where: Vancouver Hack Space - 45 W. Hastings Street. Who: Anyone who [...]
What: VHS will be opening its doors for another awesome SHHH. Please join us for a night of hacking and socializing. Because it’s the 20th SHHH ever, we’ve decided to rent out more space than ever. All the fun of a normal hacking night PLUS extra space PLUS no self-imposed bed time curfew. Bring a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What: A quick introduction and tutorial to non-euclidean geometry and Riemannian manifold, as implemented with paper and tape, and then a bold adventure into the kind of mind-bending geometry where parallel lines can diverge, angles can sum to more than tau (2*pi), and circumferences can grow exponentially. Where: VHS When: 7:30-10:30 pm 13th Dec, 2011 [...]
Thursday, December 8th marks the first-ever lady’s build night at VHS. Come by, learn to solder, and make a super cool Fuzz Pedal that you can show off to your friends. The workshop’s for beginners, so if you’re new to soldering or don’t even know what a fuzzbox is, don’t be shy, There will be friendly [...]