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Bookbinding Workshops

🇺🇸 · Crash Space · theron

Announcing a series of bookbinding workshops this winter. Learn how to make books by hand! Pocket notebooks, hardcover books, and protective slipcases. Tickets for the entire series can be seen here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/bookbinding-4551893/ Bookbinding 0 (zero) – Thursday October 29 8:00-10:00 PM – Basic Tools. We need help preparing for upcoming classes. We’ll make tools to use for the Bookbinding 1-3 workshops – bench hooks for cutting, wrapped bricks for pressing, and corner jigs for covering hardcover books. No books will be bound, but you’ll learn useful skills and help us to be ready for the other workshops. $10, but you will get a discount code for a future bookbinding workshop to thank you for your help. Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bookbinding-0-tickets-2003440950815 Bookbinding 1 – Friday November 20 8:00-10:00 PM – Pocket Notebook. Make a pair of hand-stitched 4.25 x 5.5″ notebooks with decorative soft covers. $25. Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bookbinding-1-pocket-notebook-tickets-2003560265689 Boo

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A Better Volume Control for SONOS Speakers

🇺🇸 · Workshop 88 · MACE

I have written previously about my SONOS speakers and my family’s frustration with the app that controls them. See SONOS Speaker API Overcomes App Limitations In that blog post, I resolved my wife’s biggest issue with the SONOS app. She now has a two-button device that plays and stops her favorite playlist on the speakers in the basement. But my biggest pet peeve remained unresolved until recently. Each speaker has its own, independent volume control. This is a double-edged sword. It’s great because my wife can blast her playlist in the basement while I’m upstairs playing my classical playlist at a much subdued volume. On the other hand, if we want to play a party mix over all twelve speakers in the house, I have to set the volume on each speaker individually. For my wife’s solution, I implemented an MQTT broker, subscriber and publisher. A Raspberry Pi Zero W runs a Broker program and a Subscriber program at boot. Both apps are written in Python. The Broker listens on the network for any MQTT traffic and forwards that information to all Subscribers that have expressed an int

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Free Community Repair Event

🇺🇸 · Sector67 · Chris Meyer

Mend, Don’t Spend! Bring It to the Sector67 Repair Café on November 29th Co-sponsored by Sector67 and the Madison Tool Library at Madison Hackerspace Sector67 Don’t throw it away! Sector67, Madison’s community hackerspace, is hosting its second Repair Café on … Read more ›

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