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No, not the kind that helps with digestion. The kind that you make into clothing! We'll be covering spinning, knitting & crochet. I highly recommend learning how to spin if you don't already know. It's easy, portable, and cheap! We will teach you how to make your own spindle from chopsticks. All supplies included.
Bottom Liner: emily
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Misc. work on the space, LED lighting maybe?
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Topics may include but are not limited to cryptography, intrusion, social engineering, exploitation, flaws, theories, espionage, privacy, legal issues, and anything computer security and hacking-related.
Bottom Liner: Colin Keigher
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August 3rd, we'll be doing the second el wire hack night. For those who missed it, the first one was a blast.
Why learn to work with el wire? First, because el wire is just plain sexy (see: http://hacknmod.com/hack/create-oustanding-lighting-effects-el-wire/ ). Second, for those coming to Burning Man this year, making some el wire gear is a great way to avoid spending your playa nights as a darkwad, also known as speed bump, or roadkill. Same logic also applies to anyone who rides a bike in Vancouver between, say, October and March.
El wire hack night isn't a formal workshop, but there will be experienced el wirers on hand to help with any questions, plus an assortment of el wire projects for inspiration. If you already have something el wired to show off, by all means bring it. Other shiny and blinky things are also welcome, even if they're not el wire based.
BYO el wire, drivers, and any other paraphernalia your project requires. You can also bring just yourself if you're interested in seeing what others are up to.
El wire and drivers can be found at Lee's Electronics on Main st, or bought from coolneon.com (based in California, but ship to Canada. Very knowledgeable and great to deal with) or seattlelumin.com (based in Seattle, ships to Canada. Haven't dealt with them personally.)
More information available at: http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php?id=elwirehack2
Bottom Liner: Joe+Jenny
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Interested in making your own battery-powered portable charger for USB devices? VHS has put together kits using Lada Ada's popular Minty Boost design and will have them available for next Tuesday's kit night (Aug 10th, 2010 - 7 PM). The kit is novice level, so if you have any soldering experience at all it won't be difficult (and if you don't have any experience we can, time permitting, give you a quick run through on basic soldering).
The charger you will build is housed in an included Altoids container and uses two AA batteries. The Minty Boost circuit is V2 and won't work with very recent Apple devices, so check the compatibility page if you are in doubt (http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/compat2.html).
Kits are $20 for members and $25 for non-members. For more information about the kit visit: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/
Bottom Liner: Mike Cantelon
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Our first of many crafter nights at VHS. Topic TBA.
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Modular origami, or unit origami, is a paperfolding technique which uses multiple sheets of paper to create a larger and more complex structure than would be possible using single-piece origami techniques. Each individual sheet of paper is folded into a module, or unit, and then modules are assembled into an integrated flat shape or three-dimensional structure by inserting flaps into pockets created by the folding process. These insertions create tension or friction that holds the model together.
We will be making one of three modular constructions of 12 or 32 units ranging from beginner to intermediate skill level. Mathew will bring some origami paper, but for those who want to pick up paper, Yokayaya123 in International Village (Tinseltown) or Daiso in Aberdeen mall have a large selection of 6" x 6" sheets in many colours and patterns for $2 a package of 30-100
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We are holding an introductory LED workshop. We will go over some of the fundamentals to get you rolling! This night is being held in conjunction with Public Dreams (Illuminaries festival) and will also feature some lantern making tutorials . Fancy building you own LED Lantern? Come find out how! We would like to make this a collaborative night, so if you have some LED based projects, please bring them down and show them off.
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Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy interface: openGL for graphics, rtAudio for audio input and output, freeType for fonts,freeImage for image input and output, quicktime for video playing and sequence grabbing.
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Fresh from OSCON, we're going to have Android Night. Instead of a hardware night, we're going to do a software night, where we do some Android tutorials, and cover Android Development, Contributions and how to hack your Android Device. This will be informal, and is open to all skill levels, and even those who don't have Android Devices. I might even bring down the BeagleBoard. If you like Android, and you want to talk about Android with people who like and use Android, come on down.
Bottom Liner: Joe
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The plan is to make an info video about the space. We want to film, edit and post all in one night. Bring your cameras, laptops and/or yourself.
Bottom Liner: Goldfish
Thursday Sept 10th @ VHS: Wifi Night
- Open night at VHS to mess around with wifi. Among other things, we'll walk through setting up Kismet.
Monday Sept 21st @ BCIT: VHS at VanLUG
- Please come help Joe give a talk at VanLUG.
Tuesday Sept 22nd @ VHS: Work Party!
- Please come help us go through our vast donations and get some chores done.
Wednesday October 7th @ VHS: VanPyZ meeting
- Monthly Vancouver Python and Zope Users group meeting.
Thursday October 8 @ VHS: PostgreSQL Night
Tuesday October 13th @ VHS: Dollar store Hack Night
- Bring under $20 in items from a dollar store and hack at will.
Thursday October 15th @ VHS: Solr Night
- Learn about Solr, a search engine that runs on top of Lucene.
Monday October 19th @ VHS: Strategic Planning Night
- Meet up to talk about our goals and plans for VHS over the next few months.
Tuesday October 20 @ VHS: Intro to Arduino Night
- Introduction to hacking on Arduino microcontroller boards.
Tuesday October 27 @ VHS: Punkin' Carvin' Night
Saturday November 7 @ VHS:
* 10am - 6pm: BazCamp
- like BarCamp, but with a solid focus on tech
- more info: http://bazcampyvr.pbworks.com
* 8pm - late: Super Happy Hacker House
- a night of hands-on hacking -- hardware, software, whatever
- more info: http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php?id=shhh_-_november_7th_2009
Tuesday, November 10 @ VHS: Solder Basics Night
- Thursday, November 12th - Game Jam
An overview of the event and a selection of entries from last year's GameJam.
The diversity of submissions may challenge your idea of what a "game" is.
Bottom Liner: dantakk
- Tuesday, November 17th - Infrastructure Meeting / Space Hack night
Dealing with the pressing VHS issues of the day, cleaning up the space
and hacking more awesome into it.
Bottom Liner: VANHOC
- Thursday, November 19th - Android Application Building Night
Native Android App development vs Cross platform development?
Bring an idea and a laptop and lets try to build some apps!
Bottom Liner: kevinj
- Tuesday, November 24th - DIY Arduinos
Basics of building a bare bones Arduino from scratch!
Bottom Liner: Dallas
- Thursday, November 26th - Open Hack Night
Bring your Hardware and Software projects down to work on and show off
Bottom Liner: Luke
- Tuesday, December 1st - Kit Night: TV-B-Gones!
Come and build your very own TV-B-Gone! We will have many kits available,
instruction, examples and tools!
Bottom Liner: Dallas
- Thursday, December 3rd - Console Hack Night
Bring your favourite consoles (portables welcome too) and embark on
repair or modification!
Bottom Liner: afreak
- Tuesday, December 8th - Audio, Arduino And Arcane Answers
Learn about Audio hacking (circuit bending) or Arduino or intersections
of those!
Bottom Liner: Unknown
- Thursday, December 10th - YOUR TOPIC HERE!
Insert description here
Bottom Liner: unknown
- Thursday, December 10th - Game Night
- Tuesday, December 15th - Festivus Party
Come celebrate with us!
- Friday, December 18th - Super Happy Hacker House #5! Wow!
Late night hack night on your hardware and software projects!
Starts at 7pm, goes till we're done. BYOB
Late night renegade lightning talks ~11:30pm.
- Tuesday, December 22nd - Open night (no topic)
- Tuesday, December 29th - Open night (no topic)
- Tuesday, January 5th - Kit Night - TBD
Let us know what kind of kit you want to do!
Bottom Liner: Unknown
- Tuesday, January 12th - Intro to Arduino
Come learn how to play with all the arduino parts you received as gifts
from your hacker friends!
Bottom Liner: Unknown
- Tuesday, January 19th - Beyond the Arduino
Come learn how to learn the limits of the Arduino and where to look next!
Bottom Liner: Unknown
Tuesday April 13th - Spaaaace Hacking!
- Official hack-the-space night! We'll re-hook up the Arduino to the space
and wire sensors everywhere!
Saturday April 17th - Super Happy Hacker House #7
- ”… a non-exclusive event intended for creative and curious people interested
in technology. We're about knowledge sharing, technology exploration, and
ad-hoc collaboration. Come to have fun, build things, learn things, and
meet new people. It's called hacker culture, and we're here to encourage it.”
Tuesday April 20th - Arduino Night!
- Come learn about Arduino, share your arduino projects and start new ones!
Thursday April 22nd - Arduino + Web = FUN
- Come help hack the @vhs45w arduino to hook it up to twitter and do other
web things at http://sensor.hackspace.ca
Tuesday April 27th - Kit Night & Intro to Soldering!
- Come practice your soldering skills and build a cool kit!
- Kits we hope to have available: TV-B-Gone, Atari Punk Console,
555 & LEDs, Symet ...
Thursday April 29th - Processing Night!
- Come learn about Processing, the fun visualization tool.
May the Forth be with you! EL Wire!
- Official hack-the-space night! We'll re-hook up the Arduino to the space
and wire sensors everywhere!
Tuesday May 11th - Laser Spiro Night
- Come build a Laser Spirograph from our Kits ($20)
Thursday May 13th - Web Scraping Night
- Come share and learn about different tools to scrape websites.
- Luke will show Web::Scraper (based on Scrapi)
Tuesday May 18th - Circuit Bending Night (was Rep Rap Build Night)
- Dallas is out of town, so instead of Rep Rap we're going to make awesome
sounds and circuit bend stuff.
Tuesday May 25 - Cycle Night!
- Come learn about bike hacking!
- Spring Tune-up, LEDs, EL Wire, come show up and show off!
June - During this month, we will be holding a Blue Robot Challenge!
- All month we will be hosting Arduino + Robot related nights
which will culminate in a Blue Robot challenge for teams.
There may even be prizes!
Tuesday June 1st - Arduino Hardware Night
- Come learn about the Arduino hardware - different models, connecting sensors ...
Thursday June 3rd - Arduino Software Night
- Come learn about the software side of the Arduino - UI, Command line, ...
Tuesday June 8th - Arduino + Motors Night
- Controlling motors with an Arduino - stepper, dc, servos, ...
Thursday June 18th - Arduino Code Libraries
- Come share your best tips on the best code libraries for the Arduino
Tuesday June 15th - Blue Robot Night
- Learn about our (donated) Blue Robots - a basic chassis
- Challenge teams will get their robot to hack with
Thursday June 17th - Mini-Challenge Night
- Participate in a mini-challenge to build a robot to accomplish some task.
Tuesday June 22nd - Robo Challenge Night!
- Get the contest rules and start building your robot for the challenge!
Thursday June 24th - Robo Challenge Hack Night!
- Meet with your teams and hack towards the Challenge!
Tuesday June 29th - Robo Challenge Smackdown!
- Bring your robot and compete in the challenge!