BBQ was a Great Success!

Lots of fun, Fantastic food and not that much sunlight! We met, we nerded out, we had a lot of fun! MEH BBQ FTW!

We Raised $130 profit and had a very good time. We'll do this again next year!

Big props to the Bozeman Makerspace for coming out and having a good time!

If you're interested in being part of a growing makerspace in Bozeman- Check them out at

BozemanMakers.com or http://meetup.bozemanmakers.com/

We had a lot of fun making this important first step in getting a consistent set of fund raisers to help promote a hackerspace in Helena.

We're growing and growing!

Thank you to the following LOCAL sponsors:

Free Alternate Venue in case of Bad Weather

Meal for two! Wow!

Coney Island for $25 gift certificate and five hotdogs!

Wayne Miller for 7 Prize Collectibles!

Power Townsend for $36 of electronics! Including Solar panels and LEDs!

For advertising the event on Fox and ABC!

Other excellent sponsors who weren't featured in this event(but they will be in future ones):
MT Book and Toy Co

Big Dipper Ice Cream

Party Plus

KMart

McDonalds

Wendy's

Pizza Hut

Rock on.

Our Sponsors Achieved For Day #1! :D

Benefit BBQ for MEH






So here are the gifts Saint was able to get from local businesses for our event after one day of hoofing it around town looking for sponsors. Included are gifts from Coney Island ($25 gift certificate, and five free hotdog tickets), Wayne Miller Coins (two $5 commemorative coins -- first men on the moon, 2 bicentennial commemorative medals, US coin set from 1999 "Last U.S. Coins of the Second Millennium", National Collectors Commemorative Silver Dollar Duplicate), and No Sweat Cafe (Dinner for Two -- assumed $35 value). More will be coming as our sponsors increase :D !

Meetup.com FTW!

Check out http://meetup.com/mthackers for all our wacky activities!

Nagu Con is over! For this year.

Awesome Drawing by

Jacquie Reed

 

We'll be back as vendors next year though!  Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001720120454

Next year we are coming back as vendors of Pocky(and tastier clones), Ramen, Ramune, Light-up cat ears that "flick" to beats/loud noises, Costumes, LED necklaces/Glowsticks and more!

Look for our booth AUGUST 10-12, 2012--Tentatively at Performance Square in Helena.

Great Job everyone!  We'll be moving their domain over in a bit.

Today we are getting a specific sponsorship packet together with the Humane society to create some free fund-raisers!  Pepsi truck... you will be MINE!

Critical mass is easier when everyone is critically insane.

~ Saint out

The Tornado In a Box

BWAHahahahahaha! We're making SCIENCE!!!!

We got to play around with cutting glass for this. It's possible to cut tempered glass... But it's kinda tricky. Colt did all the important cuts because I lack the combination of dexterity and patience to get it right. I still like to think I helped with moral support ^_^. I nearly totalled a pain of mirrors.

The idea of a tornado box is simple: get air to come into the box from directions tangental to the desired vortex. In other words, make the air come into the box from angles that would encourage rotating air. Lemme draw a small diagram:

The Green lines represent air current.

Blue lines are glass(or mirrors). Notice how they're set up slightly off from each other?
Black is just the wooden box frame

In order to encourage air to want to enter the box: we put a lid on top of the glass and cut a large hole through the top. We then fit an old 12v projector fan on top of the hole and bolted the fan down.

The lid for the tornado box didn't get finished in our OHN night, but it is now done and shots will be posted of it in use during our next party. Unfortunately I didn't think to take pictures while we were still playing with the dry ice. DOH!

Actually, we got photos while we were "playing" with the dry ice. We made some "boo" bubbles with some bubble blowing solution, we super carbonated soda and just made fog with warm water. The photos aren't in our dropbox though :P

Meh.

ALSO: Super-mega-ultra props to Ferret for building that sweet glowing blue "meh" sign you see in the BG.

Meetup.com

Check out meetup.com for updates on upcoming and past events.

We have a month out on events at all times.

It also has more pics on some of our projects.

Night of Solder, Soda, Silicone and SCIENCE!!!

Someone actually had the presence of mind to videotape some of us when we began soldering. Normally doesn't happen and we forget!

Six hackers showed up to make the FTIR LED strands. This was supposed to be a daunting task, but many hands and mana pots made this fun work. Go GK or Go ~/!

Bishop learned a new soldering technique. The Doc, as usual, did a very nice job of soldering. Saint... well... he tried valiantly. ;-)

We made four compliant surface tiles(which will be glued together to prevent a seam) and created some talcum powder from burnt silicon gel(photos of the burning to eventually follow).

RARRRRRRRRRRR movie:^_^

A great night. We had Pizza, Pop, chicken wings, friends, gadgetry and(most importantly) SCIENCE!!!