Monthly Archives: August 2010

Netduino Class at Harford Hackerspace this Wednesday!

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, [...]

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Support Neighborhood-led sustainable design here in Philly

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 [...]

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Robot Parade

Robot Parade from Jared Foster on Vimeo. Hmmm, anybody else getting ideas about a Hacktory community event?

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Women of ENIAC with Hive76

On Wednesday, August 18 at 7pm, your friendly neighborhood hackerspace Hive76 and the Rotunda are teaming up to bring an illustrated lecture and movie teaser called “Hidden Her-story, the Top Secret Rosies of WWII”. Documentary filmmaker LeAnn Erickson will give this talk based on the research she’s done for her film “Top Secret Rosies” which [...]

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Make:Philly Wins Best of Philly!

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 [...]

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