A Los Angeles Hackerspace
CRASH at Interface LA! This Friday, Nov 18!
Posted on November 16th, 2011 by rknLA • Filed under Events • No Comments
This Friday, CRASHspace is going to be showing off our Store Front Music project at Interface LA, a new music event put together by a bunch of LA monome users.
The event features live electronic music, our interactive art, and presentations by the artists about the unique technologies they use to bring the party:
Interface LA, a new multimedia event focused on digital art, kicks off at the Bootleg Theater on Friday November 18th at 9pm. Featured artists Lucky Dragons will give a presentation on their incredibly unique tactile interface, followed by an interactive performance. Special guest Mike Gao will show-off his latest iPad app and original beats. Culver City hackerspace CRASHSPACE will display their open-source interactive installation “Storefront Music”. The night will begin with performances from Interface LA’s core collective: ro, Altitude Sickness & Merbert Moover, with visuals provided by OICHO. Interface LA’s mission is to cultivate the growing digital art community in Los Angeles – finger ninjas, data moshers and hackers alike. Please join us for this special night of audiovisual performances, interactive exhibitions, and educational presentations.
See you there!!
Happy Birthday, Sparkles!
Posted on November 10th, 2011 by matt • Filed under Events • No Comments
Sparkles, our hands-free soldering unicorn was made a one year ago today!
It would've be impossible to imagine how far she'd travel and how many would come to visit in our humble CRASHSpace.
Sparkles: The Soldering My Little Pony Unicorn on BoingBoing
Entertaining the masses at MakeFaire in San Mateo
adafruit industries
sparkles is not the last soldering unicorn. folks have made friendly unicorns to solder projects of their own
This Pwny is Nerd Approved
After a long trip around internet is was time for a night out
we made her a friend
SoCal Linux Expo
Publishd in "Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement" by John Baichtal
The Gift !!!
Yes! It was a little touch and go for a minute there. the surgery was an overwhelming success. No face lift or anything aesthetic. She got a major structural upgrade. The temperature was tuned to better care for the tip and keep her skull a cool 90°C
after 6 hours of work she kept a cool head and hot tip. There is nothing better than having a hands-free soldering iron warmed up and ready to go at moments notice
this hard plastic piece was sawed off the original soldering iron. It was drilled, tapped, and counter sunk to serve as a backing plate for securing the soldering iron. long wires were used to hold and align it as a backing plate while longer screws were put in place to better secure the soldering iron.
This Week @ Crash Space
Posted on November 10th, 2011 by at0mbxmb • Filed under Events • No Comments
Kyle Cothern’s Arduino Hardcase, available on THINGIVERSE! This model made by Matt Pinner.
Check it out
to learn about our NEW LECTURE SERIES, peep the projects from Public Night, or keep in the know about upcoming events!
Calling All Hackerspaces! Safecast World Tour!
Posted on November 9th, 2011 by Sean Bonner • Filed under News & Updates • No Comments
Hopefully you already know about Safecast – they are a group of hackers and volunteers who are working to map radiation levels in Japan after the 3/11 earthquake earlier this year and providing all the data freely and openly for anyone to use. In doing this they realized the need for this kind of data outside of Japan as well and are teaming up with some hackerspaces to help fill in other areas around the world on their map!
The main way they are taking these measurements is with a device designed at The Tokyo Hackerspace called a “bGeigie” – it’s basically a geiger counter paired with an arduino and a GPS module which gets strapped to a car and driven around. Starting with the US (if this experiment works we’ll add the rest of the world soon) we have the idea of doing a bGeigie Hackerspace tour. The plan is, one bGeigie will make it’s way around the country, from hackerspace to hackerspace, measuring and mapping all the way. For a hackerspace to participate, the agreement would be to drive the device around your city taking a ton of readings, uploading the data to Safecast, and then physically driving (taking readings along the way) the bGeigie to the next closest participant. Ideally this will start and end in Los Angeles here at Crash Space, so with any luck the route will be a big giant loop. Depending on who volunteers.
Want to get in on the action? AWESOME! Please fill out this interest form and we’ll start planning the route right away.
Electronic Sparklify – CRAFTERNOON – 2011-Dec-11
Posted on November 8th, 2011 by matt • Filed under Events • No Comments
who: @lbruning and YOU !!!
You. Yes you. You are sweet. Our gift is one of learning and a bit fun. Ok… a lot of fun!
Bring your friends.
Bring your parents.
Bring your kids.
when: 2p-6p Sunday, December 11, 2011
first come first serve.
while supplies last. @lbruning is bringing some seriously killer special crash edition supplies.
mark your calendars, so you don’t miss out (gcal).
how much: freeeeeee
what?!? free?!?! why not?
All materials and the space are being donated.
you can donate too. donations are sweet. we need em badly.
xtra kits are cheap. we’ll have some super sparkle kits available for sale.
where: crashspace (gmaps)
10526 Venice Blvd, Culver City CA 90232
what: Electronic Sparklify ETextiles
more details are here:
http://blog.crashspace.org/2011/11/sparkle-spazified-crafternoon/
RSVP HERE:
http://www.facebook.com/events/284211461618363/
PLZ
CRAFTERNOON?!?
What is it anyhow? Cecily said it best on the crash list
“It can be a nice time to hang out, make crafty stuff, and discuss
making more crafty stuff. Don’t be afraid of the “softer” side of
making. Craft projects usually don’t bite, they just poke, tangle,
glue your fingers together, cover you in glitter…”
craft crash craft crash craft crash craft crash craft crash craft crash craft crash craft crash craft crash craft crash
Lynne Bruning : twitter : facebook
Textile enchantress, weaver of gossamer threads, Lynne Bruning is the creatrix of exclusive wearable art, eTextiles and decorative fabrics. Fusing together her education in neurophysiology at Smith College, a Masters degree in architecture and a lifetime of sewing Lynne jets thru the universe creatively cross-pollinating the worlds of science, textiles and fashion with her innovative award winning designs. The rest of the time, she can be found lounging on black sand beaches in a tangerine bikini surfing the Internet. Lynne Bruning has driven the collaborative nature of eTextile projects by sharing on Instructables and publishing numerous tutorials on everything from weaving conductive clothing to a wearable ‘cane’ for the blind. In 2010 she produced Wearable Computing Fashion Shows in San Francisco, New York, and Black Rock City.
CRASHSpace is entirely membership/donation funded and relies on your support to keep the doors open. Donations are welcomed, helpful, and necessary. thx!
This Week @ Crash Space!
Posted on November 4th, 2011 by at0mbxmb • Filed under News & Updates • No Comments
We were featured in Hack This!
Check out upcoming events, highlights from last week, and Sparkles’ debut as a centerfold in our latest newsletter!
Read More…
Double Rainbow All The Way — An HTML5/canvas tutorial by Jim Bumgardner
Posted on October 21st, 2011 by at0mbxmb • Filed under How To • No Comments
In this tutorial, we’re going to make an animated double rainbow in HTML5 / Canvas. I’m doing this to teach you about the HSL color space, and to show you a more sophisticated way of using it.
I’ll soon have another tutorial which recreates the same examples in Processing.js. Some aspects of this are easier in Processing, and some are easier in HTML5/Canvas – the difficulty is roughly the same for both, I’ve found.
To draw a rainbow, we need a graphics framework to work with. In this tutorial, I’m going to draw everything using the Canvas APIs which are part of HTML5. This means that if you are using an older web browser, like IE 8 or earlier, you’re not going to see anything!
Keep Reading this Tutorial at KrazyDad.com…
Trebuchet Built by Crashers and Kids Demonstrates Ancient Science
Posted on October 20th, 2011 by mikeout • Filed under News & Updates • No Comments
My son, Mikey, and his classmates put on a demonstration for his school. His class created their own culture faire after learning about ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. His class set up tables and demonstrations for parents and the lower grades at the school.
Crashers Justin, Kyle, the kids and I built the trebuchet from plans featured by John Park on the Make TV show. The kids assembled and were taught how to use it before the faire. His team showed off this trebuchet, a golf ball hurling catapult, a home made crossbow, and sword fighting (along with written info cards and dioramas of the coliseum). Separately, the other teams showed off foods, outfits, gods and goddesses, and how mummies are prepared and set into a kid-size sarcophagus. The mummies all came back to life after being laid to rest. It was at this time that I realized mummies have been replaced by zombies in the modern age.
More Lockpicking This Saturday! (Oct 22, 2011)
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by carlyn • Filed under Events • No Comments
Saturday, October 22nd from 7-9pm
http://collegeoflockpicking.
You can pick your friends.
You can pick your beer.
But can you pick… a Lock?
We got them back! Whoo hoo!
Saturday, October 22nd from 7-9pm
http://collegeoflockpicking.
You can pick your friends.
You can pick your beer.
But can you pick… a Lock?
Join us on Saturday, October 22nd from 7-9pm, as we embark on an ancient mechanical adventure to explore the inner workings of a modern lock, first developed by the Mesopotamians and Egyptians over 4000 years ago. Led by lockpickers Eric Michaud and Jamie Schwettmann, this workshop will cover – soup to nuts – everything you need to know about how common locks work… and how to pick them open.
Whether you’re a complete novice curious to find out what pin-tumbler really means, a homeowner protecting your family’s treasures, or a veteran lockpicker with questions about advanced locks and techniques, this event is for you! With 2 solid hours of history, mechanical diagrams (“lock pr0n”), and hands-on lockpicking instruction… first we’ll open your minds, and then we’ll open some locks!
To properly learn this ancient art, you’ll need the proper tools. By registering for a ticket with a lockpick set, this guarantees you a seat at the workshop, and reserves – all for you – a brand-new 10-piece custom lockpick set by Southern Specialties, hand-picked by Eric and Jamie to maximize utility for beginners and locksport enthusiasts alike, and offered for only $30.
If you already have some picks you’re itching to practice with, you can bring them along, and your workshop cost is only $40!
BONUS: CrashSpace members get $10 off a ticket or pick set! (Code posted to the member list)
See ya there!
- Eric.
P.S. Don’t forget to Like our Facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/
ATTN: Radio Mondays POSTPONED
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by outlawpoet • Filed under Events • No Comments
I’m putting this in email/twitter/blog posts for clarity, I apologize for the late notice, but due to unforeseen circumstances I’m afraid tonight’s scheduled lecture has been postponed a week.
So NEXT week, Oct 24th is the nascent field of Personal Area Networks, all the devices you carry talking to each other. Technologies like Skinplex, Dash7, Bluetooth low energy, Near Field Communications, and Zigbee.
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