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Tayeb Zaidi will introduce the world of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) at an online workshop to be held on Wednesday, August 26. Tayeb will walk participants through the most common open-source SDR tool, GNU Radio, and then demonstrate an actual hardware setup to broadcast FM radio signals. Go to our Meetup site for more details and information on how to participate.
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St. Stephens Episcopal Church, where HacDC’s facility is located, has been shut down due to Covid-19. All tenants, including HacDC, have been told not to use the facility until further notice. We will post a notice here and on MeetUp when our activities resume.
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All About Circuits is a comprehensive electronics industry website featuring a free six-volume online textbook about electronic circuits. Volume Six is devoted to projects and experiments, tied closely to the material in the preceding volumes. HacDC members have begun a joint seminar project to work through these projects in HacDC’s workspace, one by one, in the order they appear in the text. Anyone interested in participating in these learn-by-doing exercises is welcome to join in.
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May 16th, HacDC will be taking over DuPont underground! Join us for demonstrations of DIY technology including 3D printing and VR, and meet hackers and makers from around the DC area.
When: Thursday, May 16
Where: Dupont Underground
19 Dupont Circle NW (entrance near Starbucks)
Washington DC 20023
Send an email to bod@hacdc.org if you would like to participate..
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The following was posted by Julia to our Blabber email list.
It was arkansas. FreeGeek Arkansas. It started with a board, structured similar to HacDC’s, out of the president’s garage. It had a different guiding principal, as the goal was to educate the public, provide machinery to the public(reuse), and recycle whatever the public would drag in. We ran a “build three, take one home” program, providing all of the education and training to build the machines. To grow, our president found us a…
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The Hackers On Planet Earth 2018 conference (HOPE) hosted a panel discussion on the history of the maker movement. It’s worth listening to and seeing what common origins and challenges hackerspaces throughout the US share even today. Around 25:50 you’ll hear Mitch Altman talk about the original three US hackerspaces started in 2007-2008, Noisebridge in San Francisco, NYC Resistor in New York, and HacDC. Hat-tip to Alberto for the link.
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Hi guy’s it’s probably me Enrique posting again with one of my famously well worded and insightful monthly updates.
Well today I will keep it brief and announce the start of an epic journey this website will undertake as it get’s revamped and redesigned by one of our most self-proclaimingly accomplished members, Nicolas Sabharwal.
Now instead of boring current members with explaining the decision making process behind this decision I will quote from Tommy’s closing remarks, “Fine here.”
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Check out The Open Organization of Lockpicker (TOOOL)’s DC chapter. They meet monthly at The Boardroom. (toool.us)
This does seem more challenging…
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Another hopping 3D Thursday and still nobody else posts stuff on the website. Also Project Spaceblimp is doing payload integration at HacDC tomorrow night for our Saturday April 14th launch. Look forward to another awesome Spaceblimp video once the team rests a bit and actually edits something semi-decent.
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