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- Spaceblimp pictures are now available!
R. Mark Adams has posted the photographs taken by the test-type HacDC Spaceblimp to his Flickr account. Take a look at them here .
- The test type HacDC Spaceblimp is in the air!
HacDC has launched its test-type Spaceblimp for the Hackerspaces In Space competition! You can track it wherever you happen to be by following @hacdcspaceblimp on Twitter
- Spaceblimp pictures part two.
As promised, here are the pictures I took at the HacDC Spaceblimp prototype launch on Saturday.
- Spaceblimp pictures part I.
Here are two sets of photographs from the Spaceblimp test launch yesterday, from R. Mark Adams, Pam, and Christine , and from Bokunenjin .
- Spaceblimp test launch writeup, part one.
A couple of months back I mentioned that HacDC had thrown its hat into the ring of the Hackerspaces In Space competition held by Workshop88. The past few months have been
- HacDC Spaceblimp trajectory track.
Screenshot from aprs.fi : If anybody's monitoring APRS, the Spaceblimp's callsign is W3HAC-11. We lost the probe a few hours ago and can't pick up its telemetry. If you pi
- Physical engineering non sequitur.
The toy panda bear is propping up one side of the microwave at HacDC .
- Test object from the HacDC RepRap.
It is said that toy banana slugs are a good test object for RepRaps because they're moderately complex. Here is one of the nicer ones printed out at HacDC thus far.
- Busy times, crazy life.
It's been a really busy week or two so I haven't had time to write much. I realize that it's only common sense, but I still find it amusing that I have the least time to w
- Chaos, robots, and Faith and the Muse - all in DC!
Last Friday evening brought with a second attempt at the Chaos in DC meetup in Silver Spring, Maryland. I'd driven out there straight from work because I wound up leaving
- Packets.. get them packets...
From the HacDC space blimp meeting a couple of weekends ago: telemetry proof-of-concept. Clockwise from left to right: Windbringer, HTX-202 hand-held ham radio , remains o
- Misadventures in microcontrollers.
I've spent my free time over the past couple of days hacking away on my current project-slash-obsession and thus I've been doing a lot of reading up on microcontrollers, o
- You're probably wondering where I've been lately.
By and large, work has been, well, work. Lots of hours at the office, lots of hours stuck in traffic sweating like Kevin Mitnick during a traffic stop. When I haven't be
- A backlog of photographs.
I've been sitting on some photographs that have piled on Windbringer's hard drive up over the past couple of weeks and finally found the time to get them resized and uploa
- Peter W. Singer at HacDC.
Forget moblogging. It's too much hassle to be workable because it never works, and it wrecks my formatting. I just got back from HacDC , where tonight Peter Singer, author
- An assortment of photographs.
Does anyone else find it amusing that a cast metal and plastic drum is manufactured by a company called Touch the Earth ? This is about as far away from their ideal as you
- Noisemakers and electronics at HacDC.
Thursday nights at HacDC for the next couple of weeks have been taken up with a nifty new class courtesy of Elliot - a basic electronics course in the guise of building no
- HacDC made it into the Washington Post.
The Sunday edition of the Washington Post ran a surprisingly good article on HacDC that you'll want to check out if you've never heard of hacker spaces before, or if you'r
- Shmoocon 5 pictures are now online.
I've finally put the pictures I took at Shmoocon 5 online. I should note, persuant to the photography policy of Shmoocon, that all people I photographed gave explicit perm
- RepRap build-a-thon photo album.
I've finally gotten around to putting the pictures from the RepRap build-a-thon online. If you want more information, I also have a writeup here .
- Shmoocon 2009: ...duck!!
It's been six hours since I got back from Shmoocon , and I'm still readjusting to a low information density environment. Shmoocon is DC's premiere hacker con, held early e
- "I have a dream" at HacDC.
A couple of weeks ago at HacDC Dave Monachello, an electronic artist and frequenter of the infamous gather known as Burning Man presented one of his latest works, an anima
- The RepRap build-a-thon in review.
The weekend of the RepRap build-a-thon at HacDC started off simply: Lyssa and I went to dinner at Konami. We haven't been out for sushi for a number of months, due to my g
- Schedule of events for HacDC Build-A-Thon tomorrow!
The final schedule of events for tomorrow's RepRap build-a-thon has been announced: Saturday, 24 January 2009 Main Auditorium 10:00am Welcome and introductions 10:30am Ple
- RepRap Build-A-Thon at HacDC, 24-25 January 2009.
Please distribute widely! On 24 and 25 January 2008, HacDC , a hacker space located in Washington, DC will be holding a RepRap build-a-thon in conjunction with the Baltimo
- Remember when I said "'tis the season?"
Lyssa took sick last week. On Thursday she woke up having trouble breathing while I was in the shower, which threw our plans into a tailspin. I took a sickday and drove he
- 'tis the season once again...
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, sapient lifeforms of all ages: welcome to the holiday season. I just wish that it didn't involve so much road rage in the DC metrople
- Interesting times at HacDC.
Sorry for another late post, everyone - between work, wedding stuff, and trying to keep from falling ill, I've had a lot on my plate lately. On Tuesday night, after coming
- Better late than never: the weekend in review.
While we didn't get hit by Hurricane Hannah, the DC metroplex certainly felt her wrath late Friday and all day Saturday. I don't want to say that it was raining cats and d
- Engineering and re-engineering over the long weekend.
If you normally browse my website directly (i.e., not using an RSS feed aggregator of some kind) you'll see that I made some major changes to the front page late last nigh
- Work progresses on the sonic screwdriver.
One of the main reasons that I've been hanging out at HacDC lately is the fact that they've got a pretty well stocked electronics lab in the loft. There are shelves on the
- Where did they get this?
I'm at HacDC at the moment, and I'm trying to figure out where the hell they got this . For the record, the inscription reads "Hot-Shot Electric Shock Prod model B12".
- Slight change of plans this weekend.
Last weekend wound up a bit in the air due to an emergency at the last minute - one of Lyssa's relatives died unexpectedly and the family was hastily reconvened for her fu
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