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A while ago I saw a post on a local Facebook page saying

“Help wanted from any local knitting group. One of the ladies in our sight loss club with sight loss is in need of help to carry on with her knitting. She had a gauge with Braille capability that enabled her to identify the size of the needles but unfortunately it broke and she has not been able to find a source of getting a replacement. She’s tried RNIB & Sight Cymru to no avail. If by any…

We had to skip the last couple of years, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, but we are back: Rippowam Labs will once again be hosting a Teen Tech camp!

This year’s classes will be held from 8 am to 5 pm during the last week of June (6/27 – 7/1) and the theme of this year’s camp is: Python Coding Bootcamp.

Students will get a fun and friendly – but extensive – introduction to the Python language. At the end of the week, they will have all the skills necessary to tackle any…

FIRST TUESDAY SOCIAL – MARCH

(featured image: Gary working on a COB light)

11 people attended (including a first time visitor)

We talked about the large collection of electronic parts that Microportal has been sharing at their meetings (aka, ‘The Dragon Hoard’), and talked about how to use pulse-width modulation to dim some of the COB (Chip-On-Board) lights from the hoard.

One person showed off his Pico Pi, $4 for 132Mhz board with 8 IO pins.

Another person shared his progess on…

• Investigated / decided on new bank (MaPS Credit Union) re fees, services, and accessibility, starting in March.
• Standing agenda item to discuss in-person meetups and/or resuming hunt for physical facilities: First step is resuming physical Social meetups. Between Omicron and cold weather, stuck with virtual First Tuesday Social meetings for Jan/Feb/March. Considering physical meetup at April Social, and will put link to survey in meetup.com event entry for April Social re preferences for meetup…

In the virtual 1st Tuesday for January, a participant talked extensively about his experience assembling a 3d printable micro jib (https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-micro-jib-181909).

12 attended virtual 1st Tuesday for February, including a few new faces. Our friends in the Microportal Electronics Club received a large donation of a retired Las Vegas repair tech’s collection of parts, which will be shared into the community at meetings and as needed.

The Monday night host is changing the open time. It is now 5pm – 8pm.

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Every year we take a day and focus on cleaning up our Space.

Makespace is what you make it…

2022 is destined to be another year of big changes!

As part of this, Rippowam Labs has made the decision to consciously decouple itself from Big Tech and we’ve dumped our old Android phones in favor of GrapheneOS!

GrapheneOS is a flavor of the Android operating system that has NOT been co-opted by Google and/or Facebook (why can’t I delete that app anyway?). There’s no reason they have to know every little thing about our lives and we decided to…