This morning roughly a dozen geeks from other hacker spaces, after driving as far away as Milwaukee and crashing at HacDC, woke up to the smell of fresh baked bread, eggs, and coffee.
After grabbed a quick breakfast they set to work making signs for the Rally to Restore Sanity and marched forth toward the Mall.
HacDC was featured on tonight’s All Things Considered newscast. NPR reporter Jacob Fenston spent some time at HacDC and found a few of our members making nifty Halloween gadgets, gizmos, doodads, and other spooky things.
For those of you who heard the story and are wondering about what HacDC is — We’re a Hackerspace in the nation’s capital. According to the definition on Hackerspaces.org, we’re a community-operated physical place, where people can meet and work on their projects.
What kind of projects? Well, all sorts of things! We play with electronics and microcontrollers, 3D-printers and metalworking tools, lasers and artificial intelligence, teaching others how to use them all. We recently sent a couple balloons (equipped with radio tracking devices and cameras) into space and recovered them. We hold workshops, classes, kit builds, and book talks. Sometimes we show movies and just hang out. All of our events are open to the public and free.
Sign up for our mailing list, check out our calendar, and if it sounds like something you’d like to be involved with, sign up to become a member.
Thanks to Comedy Central, many of you may be headed to DC next weekend for the Rally to Restory Sanity/Keep Fear Alive. If you’ve been thinking about the trip, but worried you might not have a place to stay, HacDC — the capital Hackerspace — is offering some basic sleeping accommodations (breakfast provided) and a hackerriffic halloween party, along with other activities for visiting hackers. We’d be happy to host you and your hacker-friendly group.
Crash space is in a separate part of the building so those wanting to sleep early won’t be kept up by the party. The suggested donation for people crashing at the space is $20/night and includes breakfast both mornings. Sleeping Space is limited so sign up soon.
Things have been fast paced at HacDC recently and it’s good to see great folks working on lots of neat projects. I’ll be breaking out the big stick soon to get folks writing about them, but here is just a sampling of what’s been going on:
stick around for more information as folks write more about the laser work we’ve been doing, the custom power supplies we’ve been designing (and will be kitting up soon), the upcoming classes on game development (on a console you build), the next revision of our spaceblimp project, and the wireless microcontroller mesh network we’re building.
oh, and fun. we’re big on fun.
