2600 Friday
First of the month, That's this Friday. It's 2600 time! Meeting will be at the usual place the Game Lounge at 178 Main Street in Burlington Vermont from 5-8. It's on the third floor, so just keep going up. There will be signs to point the way.
Afterwards we will probably head over to Laboratory B! 1.5 blocks away for further hijinks!
Soldering Workshop
Dom will be hosting a soldering workshop at Laboratory B!
Are you interested in electronics, technology, and hacking? Laboratory B, Burlington’s hackerspace is hosting a soldering and electronics workshop on April 15th at 2:00pm. Learn to solder the right way and touch up on your circuitry skills in the process. Lab B has much more to offer than just soldering, useful tools and knowledgeable people are there to help you all the way.
If you can think it, together we can build it.Contact Dom for more info dom@laboratoryb.org
2600 Meeting this Friday..possible different location @ Lab B
This Friday is the first of the month. It's 2600 time! Meeting will be at the usual place the Game Lounge at 178 Main Street in Burlington Vermont from 5-8. It's on the third floor, so just keep going up. There will be signs to point the way.
We might have a little trouble secure the space, if we can't we'll have the meeting at Laboratory B. We will put up signs letting you know and make a post here.
Afterwards we will probably head over to Laboratory B our new hacker space just 1.5 blocks away for further hijinks! We've made a lot of improvements since we moved in 2 weeks ago!
Vermont Makers Public Presentation
Hey all,
We’re planning a fun evening of presentations with Vermont Makers and students from Champlain College. Subjects of our first presentation include blinkies, the Quadcopter, the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic and more!
Vermont Makers Public Presentation
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
6:30 PM
Emergent Media Center, Miller Center
Champlain College; Burlington, Vermont
Casey Reas Is Coming to Town!
Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing
Talk
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Emergent Media Center, Miller Center
Champlain College; Burlington, Vermont
6:30 PM
This event is sponsored by the MFA in Emergent Media Program at Champlain College
Acclaimed software artist Casey Reas uses computer algorithms to create complex, organic abstractions. In his ongoing series Process, Reas explores the relationship between synthetic and naturally-evolved systems through strikingly beautiful prints, animations, architectural wall fabrics, relief sculpture and interactive works all derived from variations on the same fundamental software algorithm. Reas is also internationally recognized as co-creator of Processing, an open source programming language specifically for visual artists, a standard for artists creating images, animation and interactive art. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Reas will be in residence in Burlington from March 21-23 working with local artists in algorithmic art.
For more about Casey Reas and Processing:
Processing – http://processing.org/
Casey Reas – http://www.reas.com/
Maybe we can get Casey to swing by the Lab!
via Vermont Makers
Friend Friend Everywhere!
Last night was an exciting night at the space! Ken Howell & John Ferguson from Champlain College came for a visit! After some fun discussion it appears that there are a lot more people interested in HackerSpaces, MakerSpaces & FabLabs then originally thought! The Lab B members learned about new a whole group called Vermont Makers, a whole group of people with similar interests! Woot!
Plus we had a visit from a high school student from Bethel and one of his teachers!
Last Friday at are monthly 2600 meeting we had a visit from a bunch of Norwich Students too! Earlier in the day Jesse met up with Andrew and his daughter who are prepping to do some awesome loom hack!
Finally we found a note under the door from Jonathan from Germany! Sorry we missed you! It's great to have international visitors come to our little lab.
If you'd like to come by and check out the lab, or what not the best way is to email info@laboratoryb.org. While open times are posted on the best site we haven't been super hardcore about keeping them..but will now that some many people want to come by!
Transparency Grenade
The lack of Corporate and Governmental transparency has been a topic of much controversy in recent years, yet our only tool for encouraging greater openness is the slow, tedious process of policy reform.
Presented in the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, the Transparency Grenade is an iconic cure for these frustrations, making the process of leaking information from closed meetings as easy as pulling a pin.
Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.
Whether trusted employee, civil servant or concerned citizen, greater openness was never so close at hand..
...And Idea who's time has come!
Reblog:Tech@Burlington Meetup — Wed, Feb 8th @ New Moon
Tech@Burlington Meetup — Wed, Feb 8th @ New Moon
Tech@VT Meetup is coming to Burlington on Wedndesday! Come meet entrepreneurs, service providers and investors in the back room of New Moon in Burlington to chat, catch up and exchange ideas. RSVP through the Facebook Event
2600 Meeting & Lab B Hangout!
Next Friday is the first of the month. That's this Friday. It's 2600 time! Meeting will be at the usual place the Game Lounge at 178 Main Street in Burlington Vermont from 5-8. It's on the third floor, so just keep going up. There will be signs to point the way.
Afterwards we will probably head over to Laboratory B our new hacker space just 1.5 blocks away for further hijinks! We've made a lot of improvements since we moved in 2 weeks ago!
Laboratory B ReLaunch!
It's an empty room...but it's our empty room!
We're back! Lab B is back in physical space! At the Hood Plant in downtown Burlington. The new bunker of research and education is roughly ~550 Sq ft of tech adventure time!
We're planning and plotting a ton of great things to kick off our new space! What you might ask?!
Classes: Learn to solider! Assemble some electronics kits! Code up some software!
Showings: We're going to be doing two types of awesome showings! One being documentaries of the nerdy type and two being ReCons..al the fun of a hacker con with out the travel and expense!
Open Nights: Wondering what this is all about..well come to one of our open nights in which hack stuff! woot!
We still have to do some cleanup and of course move in! Stay Tuned!