Am 1. Advents-Wochenende vom 28. bis 30. November findet in der Räumen der WerkStadt Lüneburg und des FabLab Lüneburg die WINTERWERKSTADT 2025 statt: Im FabLab wird unter anderem der „Bazzite DaddelPC“ zu testen sein.Elektronik-Bausätze können gegen Kostenbeteiligung gelötet werden, aber auch 3D-Druck und Lasercutter stehen zur Verfügung. Natürlich zeigen wir auch nach dem Ende von […]
This post is an excerpt/cross-post from a blog post on Zettelwirtschaft April 28th, 2025 I finally gave in to my long coveting of the cylindrical Mac Pro. I bought one on eBay for $69, upgraded it to 12 cores and 128gb of ram and spun up a home AI server. I named it Jai. You can interact with him just like ChatGPT or Claude or whatever via a chat interface. image from ebay somewhere I am slightly obsessed with this computer; it’s so elegant. A silent steel canister, breathing warm air when he’s thinking. It feels like the egg of Hal 9000 or the warp core of a spaceship. Local AI A lot of the ills of the AI boom can be remedied by running an AI server at home. The energy consumption is way lower and during the winter it heats our home. There’s no data harvesting, all our queries stay in-house. We can run uncensored models, not limited by what CEOs think it’s ok to talk to AI about. And other than the hardware and electricity cost, it’s free! I love how many different models there are to play around with and how easy it is to swap them in. I still use Claude and Cursor but any que
Marc Leclair (left) teaching a guitar pedal workshop at SynthCube . Photo by Rob Flynn. For the past couple years, Marc Leclair of CRAM Audio Technologies has taught DIY music electronics workshops at AS220 (and in other places around New England), helping folks build guitar pedals, hand-held synthesizers, and even theremins contained in Altoids tins. His history with AS220, however, goes back decades and he's taken the initial inspiration he felt walking into our raw space in the '80s around the country with him. Read what he has to say below, and maybe you'll be inspired to take his DIY Fuzz Pedal workshop on December 14th ! Does Mark's story inspire you? Make a donation to AS220's Year End Appeal now and help us continue to provide affordable access to creative education for all Rhode Islanders.