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Darren Kitchen visits Crash Space

Posted on June 12th, 2013 • Filed under Events • No Comments

Darren Kitchen, the host of Hak5 on Revision3 Network, is coming by Crash Space Saturday June 22nd at 3:30. He’s going to tour the space, give a talk on internet freedom, and generally hang out.

This is all part of his Hack Across America tour. He’s going to be at the science center in the morning, and having a meet up at Rush Street in the evening.

If you’d like to attend please grab a ticket at EventBrite. That way we’ll have some idea how many people to expect.

 

Our Little Free CrashLibrary is ONE YEAR OLD

Posted on June 9th, 2013 • Filed under Events • No Comments

Happy Birthday, CrashLibrary !

It has been a big year with a huge launch party and logging nearly 8k visitors!

Strangest things left in the library would have to be either the leftover chinese food. or the old sneakers. or the puppy

I pulled some data from the our xively feed into google for a few fancy graphs and found some interesting stats. Feel free to play with it a bit yourself and the feed and code is on our github.

book counts

Usages per day

Let’s remember the first evening and days with our library too

 

ArduSensors by 12-year-old Inventor QTechknow Available @ SparkFun!

Posted on June 8th, 2013 • Filed under Events • No Comments

Remember last summer, when Crashspace had the honour of bringing a particularly bright young engineer down to LA to teach Arduino with his custom ArduSensors that he thought up, designed, and produced on his own via his own online store?

 

He hasn’t stopped working since then, and people are starting to take notice!  SparkFun, a major manufacturer of hobbyist electronics, is now carrying his ArduSensors as an educational kit!

Let me say that again, just in case it hasn’t sank in: He’s 12. He designed these himself. That’s really hard. His kit in amazing. His kit is so amazing it’s in the SparkFun store.  Little QTechknow is making the maker dream a reality, and showing kids everywhere that anyone can bring their creations to life with some hard work and dedication.

What are you waiting for?! Go support our young maker friend and buy a zillion of his awesome kits!!

 

 

 

Dorkbot SoCal Hackerspace Tour, Sunday June 9

Posted on June 8th, 2013 • Filed under Events • No Comments

As part of the 2013 Dorkbot SoCal Hackerspace Tour, Dorkbot SoCal will be meeting at Crash Space on Sunday, June 9 from 1PM to 3PM.  Presentations on Crash Space related projects will be given by Steven Goldstein (Flipbookit mechanical animation kit), Matt Pinner (Crash Library little twitter-attached lending library), and Naim Busek (Crash Inspired Mobile LED display).  Attendees will get to learn more about Crash Space and will be able to tour the facilities.

 

Analog Living: Clothing Swap + Open Sew

Posted on June 3rd, 2013 • Filed under Events • No Comments

Swap ! Don’t Shop

We’re having a CLOTHING SWAPPING PARTY on Wednesday June 12th. We start at 7p. Feel free to show up anytime, but you will be missing out on the best scores.

Bring something, someone, some snack, or some technique to share.

Bring a project to work on.. or finish.

Be inspired. Start something new.

We’ll have a few machines setup and basic supplies, but this is generally a Bring-Your-Own-Materials-Sewing-Machine-Snacks-and-Skills.

Dust off your sewing machine. Revive postponed projects. Repurpose old clothes into new. Swap your skills. Create and not consume. (Unless it’s snacks you want to consume, that’s ok).

Contact Rachel with your Q’s: analogliving@crashspace.org.

This event is FREE if you BYOMSMSS. Donations always welcome.

Here’s some photos from our previous clothing swap