Hope you had a good Christmas!

UPDATE 12/25/2010:  THE WINNER FOR THIS YEAR'S XMAS ELECTRONICS COMPETITION IS: 

Travis Hyyppä

from Helena MT!

With his Sentient Ornament!

 

Congratulations Travis for a job well done!  You will be receiving $250 of Think Geek awesomeness and a year of workspace and equipment starting when you want it to! 

Welcomed Surprise Entry

Xmas lights to a baseline of Christian Rock!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9JNjWVrkk

Vote for a REAL Change--Elect a ROBOT in 2010!

Xmas Hack Competition entries are being posted!

All voting must be done by Noon on the 24th!

We are going to have a simple form with the electronic gadget name and a link to the youTube of the device.

Each person is allowed one vote. If this gets abused, we'll have to require registration. :(

Expect four entries in this so far. However... since we're all procrastinators... you can hand in your late submission by tomorrow morning and we'll still put it up.

Two entries have been posted so far:
Travis Hyyppa's Dynamic Temperature-Displaying Electronic Xmas Ornament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI16lV6jZ7o

Saint's Proximity-Testing XMas Mimic Present
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwy6bi7KW-I

Just over a week to build your XMas Gadget

If you don't have time/resources to make a video, drop it by MEH at 918 Breckenridge we'll make a video and ensure it gets back to you by the 20th for Xmas!

All brainy hats off to ThinkGeek.com which will provide $250 to the winner of the XMas Electronics competition. Check out all the nerdy, glorious gear/gadget you can at ThinkGeek.com

Huge thank you for being our sponsor for this event! ThinkGeek went above and beyond what they needed to. There's no Scrouge in this geeky company!

MEH's third Blood Drive on Monday!

A prerequisite of our Board is that they must make all honest attempts at a weekly plasma drive to Great Falls. Plasma is the blood juice without the blood cells. During this time, we all cram a van/car and discuss future ways to obtain HP, funding/growth and any other business issues and opportunities. We also sometimes use it to gather support/affiliates/sponsors/etc. It's actually pretty fun! Our club secretary records the minutes and we WAY over-accomplish our legal requirement of board meetings.

If you are a member, or even an interested person, please email at bloodmeh@gmail.com. The blood drive is worth 50 HP(hacker points) so two trips will get you 10sqft of hackspace table for the month and Mehmbership. Plus you get to know what happens in our board meetings.

I will, as usual, make 20(or more) PB&J sandwiches for all of us the night before. Then we shall grab some Juice bottles and head for Great Falls. You would need your SSN, Picture ID(with DOB) and any letter that can prove your residence in the past 60 days.

It's about an hour there, two hours when we get there and one hour to go back. Expect faster time, if this isn't your first time donating plasma. We are projected to make around $100 per trip.