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Like all living things the Hackspace needs regular care to keep it healthy. This Wednesday there were no less than 5 people at the space hauling, smashing, hammering, stacking, and disposing. They ripped out the old member storage and installed 16 new lockers. What a fantastic job they did. So clean! Several people have expressed [...]
Some people have round asses and some people have flat asses. If you’ve never been able to find a pair of hot pants to fit your very special ass, this hot pants party is your chance to learn how to customise some hot pants! WHAT: Bring a pair of your own booty shorts / tighty whities / [...]
come one, come all to the second evar vhs horticultural night. i will be bringing supplies and instructions on how to make seed bombs. i have the red clay powder, compost and an interesting selection of westcoast non-invasive seeds. i will also bring some seedling racks on which we can dry the bombs. what: seed [...]
Join us tomorrow night (4/20) at VHS for Super Happy Hacker House! What: VHS will be opening its doors for another awesome Super Happy Hacker House (SHHH10101). Please join us for a night of hacking and socializing. Bring a project you’re working on, or just come down and find out what Vancouver’s hackers, crafters, and [...]
What: Moss paint is a lot more eco-friendly than the toxic chemicals used in spray paint, and succeed in bringing a piece of nature and life to inanimate walls and ceilings. Besides, you don’t even need to be an environmental person to appreciate these works of art. We are going to make some Moss Graffiti past [...]
Hosted by VHS and run by West Coast Kits, Drawbot is a gentle introduction to arduino, sheilds, stepper motors, mechanics, machining, and more. There will be a short talk about its development and then we will assemble a drawbot or two and turn some vector art into a mural on the white board. Order in [...]
Tomorrow, March 15th, come out to the Museum of Vancouver and help support Vancouver Mini Maker Faire in all of it’s glory! If you can’t make it out to the evening, but would like to help out the cause, we are currently accepting donations through eventbrite.
We need to have a general space meeting This is NOT an AGM, this is a general space meeting where we will talk about the direction on where we should head next. Things we could talk about: Moving to a new space. Should we bother or just strive to keep the space open as much as possible Should we [...]
What: A short talk about using EL wire and how it works, and then we can play and make glow bikes and glow outfits! Luke’s kit company (http://westcoastkits.com/cycEL/) just brought in lots of new EL kits in 4 colours (dark blue, aqua blue, hot pink, neon green) as well as some new *sewable* EL wire with [...]
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
