A Los Angeles Hackerspace
Public Night!
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by daryll • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments
Are you curious about CrashSpace? Want to figure out what people do at a hacker space? Want to meet some interesting people?
Now is your chance to check out CrashSpace. Tomorrow night (Tuesday Feb 9th) at 8pm is open night at CrashSpace. Our usual Tuesday night meeting is open to the public.
What do we do at our usual Tuesday night meeting? A brief bit of CrashSpace business. A show and tell session by our members. Lots of interesting parts and projects show up. Finally, there’s take apart Tuesday. The group takes apart a couple pieces of hardware and figures out what’s inside them, how they work, and what parts might be useful to scavenge.
Come on by CrashSpace at 8pm and see what it’s all about. We’ve love to meet you.
Hacker-Supplies Field Trip
Posted on February 6th, 2010 by carlyn • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments
Thursday Hutch and I did the rounds at various local outlets for Physical Computing/Hardware Hacking resources. LA is SPOILED, I tell you. Coming from NYC, the idea that you can walk into a place – more than one place – and buy components is crazy talk.
Here are some selected photos from that trip, more on flickr, and more resources on our wikipage.
Take Apart Tuesday No. 5: Electric Toothbrushes
Posted on February 6th, 2010 by carlyn • Filed under Events, How To • No Comments
This week’s Take Apart Tuesday is going to be a little light because we really spent the time after the meeting watching LOST. LOVED IT.
I had dismantled two electric toothbrushes over the weekend preparing for an Introduction To Electronics class I’m teaching at Machine Project in March. I pretty much threw the parts on the table like chum saying “keep the talking to the commercials people.”
That said I have written up a little bit about the nature of DC motors and provided links.
Radio Mondays: Emergency
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by outlawpoet • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments
Yesterday we had another successful Radio Mondays, the subject was emergency uses of radio, and what was available to us, for listening and use.
Take Apart Tuesday No. 4: Apple StyleWriter 1200
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by carlyn • Filed under Events, How To • 2 Comments
This week we ripped apart an Apple StyleWriter 1200 and got one of its stepper motors working! See, we don’t just kill things.
Once again How Stuff Works comes to the rescue with a great article on inkjet printers. Give it a quick glance, especially the Inside an InkJet Printer, before you look at the dismantle porn on flickr so you can get a sense of what you’re looking at.
This poor printer had clearly been languishing in a garage somewhere, with bugs and dirt and stray pennies… we’re happy it’s now in a better place.
Here’s the flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlynorama/sets/72157623309152076/
Last week we had a motor in our circuit inducing current for an LED so now we have the perfect segue for looking at a motor, well, being a motor. We captured two stepper motors from the StyleWriter 1200 and got a 4 phase 5 wire unipolar stepping motor to do its thing.
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