Monthly Archives: July 2011

Being a Woman in a Hackerspace at Make:Online

By Georgia | Published: July 7, 2011

Great article at Make:Online that tries to answer the question, “What Does it Mean to be a Woman Hackerspace Member?” The answers came from a diverse group of women hackerspace members from around the country, but the answer I took away from it was “pretty much the same thing to be a man at a [...]

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2nd Kinect Hacking Session last night

By Georgia | Published: July 6, 2011

We had our second kinect hacking session last night. Didn’t get too far in the hacking, but we did find an awesome resource called Greenfoot that offers the ability to program in a really graphic layout, similar to Scratch. As someone who’s used Processing, another programming language meant for artists, I liked Greenfoot because it [...]

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We’re making some changes

By Georgia | Published: July 1, 2011

In case you didn’t notice we’ve added some features to the website. There’s now a countdown to our next open house on top here, a link to our flickr on the lower right, and a link to our new discussion forum on the right. We’re doing all this in an effort to make the site [...]

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