greetings from The Last Hope. We are rocking the hackerspace village here, doing on the spot screen printing of our two designs. We've go through about 50 shirts, which means 50 people walking around with The Hacktory logo on their shirt/laptop-bag/sticker/whatever. Yesterday we drew a great crowd with NO CARRIER and ANIMAL STYLE setup at our booth before their show last night. We had some great stuff running off hacked Nintendos, and people were loving it.

I spoke this morning on Community Fabrication, and I'll be on a panel later today about hacker spaces. Of the 6 ot 7 hackerspaces listed in the villlage, us and NYCResistor are the only ones that are manned and active. In short, we are rocking, and wish (more of) you were here.

or WE'D UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE BETTER IF WE HAD 3.14159 FINGERS.

Austrian art-hackers MONOCHROM is in NYC for The Last HOPE this weekend, and when they are done there going to come invade Philly with their media hoaxing, billboard liberators, cocktail mixing robots and sexy androids.

The highlight of their visit is going to be a show @ PIFAS (1712 N 2nd St.) on Tuesday July 22 starting at 7:30pm. Illegal Public Art in 5 Minutes or Less or WE'D UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE BETTER IF WE HAD 3.14159 FINGERS. Admission to the show is by donation ($5-10 suggested). Be there or be 3.14159. (The suqares will all be at the Arduino Dnager Shield class.

July 22 - 7:30pm @ PIFAS - 1712 N 2nd St.
[ 2nd + Cecil B Moore - Berks stop on the EL ]
($5-10 donation suggested)

Here's a clip from Walter (who is our dedicated open-hack guru, and makes sure it happens, and things get done) and some notes from me (Far) on this weeks Open Hack/Open House. Read more after the page-break

Featured at Make:Philly this coming Sunday, is Bradly Litwin. Brad will give a talk on his amazing kinetic sculptures, which have been featured in museums around the world.

This isn't the first time we've posted about Brad here. And he also did us the Honor of teaching a Kinetic Sculpture class with us just a few short weeks back.

Brad is an extraordinarily accomplished painter, illustrator, sculptor, graphic designer, animator, photographer, woodworker, metal smith, musician, engineer... and more.

And (of course) after the talk we build things on the spot in the Maker Challenge!

In Summary:
Brad Litwin. This Sunday at 3PM on the nose
333 S. Broad Street, 4th Floor (University of the Arts)
RSVP Required! email first & last name to makephilly@gmail.com

People have been clamoring for another Ardunio class, and with the summer weekends full, we've switched things up to have an Arduino Inupt/Output evening class on Tuesday July 22nd and Thursday July 24th.

We're going to be rocking the Danger Shield! (by Zach Smith of NYC Resistor. It's dangerously fun, and you'll learn to do some dangerously cool things with the Arduino while you build and learn to use it!

Sign up while you can, this thing is probably going to sell out!

Hackers On Planet Earth, AKA HOPE has been around for years as the best in Hacker conventions. It's always been in Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC. And since the Hotel is getting demolished soon this year July 18 to 20th is The Last HOPE.

TheHacktory (naturally) has been invited to show up and show off what we are doing here in Philly. But to do this we need enough of The Hacktory folks to show up to represent us. If you can spare a weekend to help out, this would be the weekend to do it! If you can help out for a day, or even just a few hours email me at FarMcKon@gmail.com