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CRASH Space

A Los Angeles hackerspace

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Mastodon software's illustration of an elephant throwing a paper airplane, but in this image the airplane is made from the CRASH Space logo
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So you want to join Mastodon

November 1, 2022November 1, 2022 carlyn 0 Comments ActivityPub, fediverse, mastodon

TL;DR – Start on http://mastodon.online if you want to start today. It’s a general server that’s run by the non-profit

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Using a whetstone
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Practical Sharpening

March 9, 2021April 4, 2021 Shaun Shue 2 Comments

Especially in cooking prep, a sharp knife is safer than a dull one. If you’re cutting something hard like a

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terminal window executing "shields up" command line utility
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Swapping /etc/hosts files quickly

May 6, 2020May 7, 2020 carlyn 1 Comment bash, command line, hosts, network

Last week I wrote a command line script to print out what day of the week it is. This week

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screen capture of a terminal window that has just run the command whatday and returned Thursday
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What Day is It? Command-line Utility

April 30, 2020May 6, 2020 carlyn 2 Comments command line, python

So you don’t know what day it is? Here is a quick tutorial on how to set up a small

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Making a GIF using FFMPEG

March 3, 2020May 28, 2020 Kevin Jordan 3 Comments FFMPEG, GIF, Images

First, open terminal install FFMPEG brew install ffmpeg Done! Now cd over to the directory your videos are and run

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Air Coil Winder

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Kevin Jordan 0 Comments project

Made an Air Coil winder with Mark Rosen. Put a magnet on the drill to count rotations using an iPhone

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Vinyl Cutter!

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 Kevin Jordan 2 Comments project

Steve helped me get started with Crash’s vinyl cutter, YES, Crashspace has one and it works really well! It’s the

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Neopixel Tester

August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 todbot 0 Comments

I made a thing! It’s a little reprogrammable Neopixel Tester. It’s a small PCB carrier for an Adafruit Trinket M0

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text from the output of a command line file, illustrative only
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lsof in the wild

July 9, 2019July 10, 2019 carlyn 0 Comments command line, linux, lsof, unix

A zero day exploit on the video conferencing app Zoom for the Mac hit the news yesterday. The excellent write

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Recording a Variable Strobe Light

May 26, 2017May 30, 2017 Kevin Jordan 0 Comments

Steve and I made a really fun fountain controlled by a bike pump for Maker Faire 2017. It was a huge hit

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map of the united states with 100 mile border zone highlighted in orange
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One Thing To Do Today: Border Control Advice Round Up

February 14, 2017February 15, 2017 carlyn 1 Comment border, onething, privacy, security, travel

Lots of bad advice is getting floated around about border crossings, including creating weird partitions or fake lightweight logins. Sadly,

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old fashioned label for flea powder
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One Thing To Do Today: Don’t fall for “resistance” data parasites

January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments data parasites, onething, privacy, security

There will be a lot of people who want to capitalize on the new activist energy that you should consider

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We are open for members and limited public events, subject to COVID restrictions.

While at the space, please wear a mask regardless of vaccination status.

Please check out our event calendar for virtual event listings. There are more options for getting connected in the "Get in Touch" section below.

Hi There

Welcome to CRASH Space. We are a collection of hackers, programmers, builders, makers, artists and people who generally like to break things and see what new things we can build with the pieces. CRASH Space is a 501(c)3 non-profit.

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