Cool piece with video about the ENIAC (one of the world’s first computers built here in Philly) at Technically Philly.
Annihilvs Power Electronix is making a stop on their East Coast tour tonight at Penn’s Rotunda. The show is free and starts at 8 pm and will feature a few different artists doing their own version of metal/DIY music. You can get a feel for the work of the performer Author & Punisher and his [...]
Here’s a quick little article that talks about how the DIY movement, especially events like Maker Faire, offers a chance to allow kids to learn by doing. Many education professionals think this is the best way for many kids to learn, but opportunities for this kind have been phased out of many school systems. It [...]
The Corzo Center and Superfluid are organizing a competition to encourage collaboration in creative projects. This could come in handy for you if, for example, you have some leet coding skills but you need a designer to get your project done. Superfluid is a virtual currency that helps you trade favors for creative projects and [...]
We’ve had people come to our arduino classes from far and wide, so any of you Hacktory followers down near Baltimore, listen up! The local hackerspace there, Harford Hackerspace, is having a Netduino workshop this coming Wednesday. The fee is $35, which includes a Netduino, and the group has an inside connection with Secret Labs, [...]
The Urban Studio, an great little organization that offers “design services which empower neighborly efforts toward sustainability” has a kick-starter campaign for a new project called Visual Voice. Visual Voice aims to be a megaphone for a city-wide series of conversations at the neighborhood level. The results of the conversations will take visual form in [...]
Robot Parade from Jared Foster on Vimeo. Hmmm, anybody else getting ideas about a Hacktory community event?
We want to give a huge shout out to our sister organization, Make:Philly for winning Philadelphia Magazine‘s Best of Philly 2010 award for the “place to free your inner nerd”. The Hacktory wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Harris and all the other makers and inventors that have helped build the diy culture in [...]
One of our favorite watering holes National Mechanics is hosting Science on Tap, a monthly science lecture sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences, the The American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum, CHF, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science. Don’t expect a snore symphony though, these talks are aimed curious, inquisitive young minds, so bring [...]
I had a pretty ugly pink bluetooth headset that I’d never gotten around to using (mostly because it was pink). I was thinking of converting an old traditional push-button desktop telephone into an ‘internet phone’ when it occurred to me that the phone headset was the only important part. As you dial an internet phone [...]
