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!!!

Montana.Helena.Programmers.join('OMGWTFBBQ');

Barbecue weather is coming up! This is a great opportunity to hang out and meet some of your local computer programmers! Come enjoy a burger and meet some fun and friendly programmers in your neighbourhood!

Sign up @: http://www.meetup.com/Montana-Programmers/events/17176898/

We will have:

#A rousing game of Munchkin!

#plenty of chess!

#Nerd Quiz(Prize is a donut and an honourable mention on the Meh. Computer Club's website). Winner was a two-way tie between Chris Ching and Kyle Lonnes!

#More games to come!

#Chips, Watermelon, Pop, Beer, Burgers, Hot dogs,

We will be:

#Getting together a D&D 3.5 group.

#Finding more people seriously interested in learning to use Blender.

#Creating another team for this year's Montana battling robot competition.

#Having fun!

Battle Bots

We have a new entry from a UM-Missoula student! Will we see anything from MSU?

The clock is ticking! Get to work on those bots! Check out the "Compete!" link in the upper right-hand corner to observe all the rules for safety.

We're going to have to move the Robotic Competition back to July 2nd

This will, over all, ensure a better competition. We will have higher turnout, more goodies and better entries.

Ice to Fire!

"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside our selves and our dreams."~ Edward Elric

Fooosh!

Two transformers, Three attempts and One transmutation circle later we have ignition!

Ice to fire! I just wish I hadn't burnt my thumb doing it.

Ah, good old O2 in a bottle.

This week was planned to be a bit... more fundamental than most weeks. A lot of improvements going on here!

Next Thursday, we're either working on Adamo, mounting a projector to make a D&D screen or a freeform build-your-own-thing lab. VOTE NOW

Thursday Meeting in Review

Adamo(the first pizza bot) now has a functioning actuator. We put the pizza plate on the motor and hooked it up to a mouse. We also have a bunch of pictures. We will have a welcome video to the hackerspace soon, right now we have someone editing it. We have a film student. I like artists ^_^

The hackerspace is in the process of getting a paint job. We used low VOC and we have a HEPA filter on top of it all.

Ferret completed a WICKED display sign for the front window. It's an old optiplex that's been better re purposed as a lamp. It runs on 4.5 Watts of LEDs!

Saint has built a high-definition projector from a magazine magnifier, LCD and a construction light(yes, he already has the McGyver nickname). We're mounting it in the ceiling so we can project down onto a table.

If you contact us via phone, please leave a phone #. We don't devote the extra time to tracking your unknown #s down.

The Battle Robots competition may be able to get a couple acres by Canyon Ferry. We would do this on private property, so I am trying to get a sliver of pro-bono help from a lawyer. We need to have attendees/competitors sign waivers so our potential sponsor doesn't have to worry about liability.

What else happened in the past 13 days... Ah! Yeah! Congratulations to Saint for getting hired on as an instructor at the local U of M! He's also been delegating a bit more so I(Ferret)'m chatting you up instead.

We have a very organized and impressive newsletter this go around. Sign up for it on the website( http://mthackers.com/Contact.html). The membership goal for September 30th is 45 members. This means less than 3 members every other week We are on track to have $60k for the hackerspace by the end of December.


That's all folks!

Most of the Competition Rules by 4AM!

Sorry, I haven't posted the competition rules. I(Saint) am doing that now. Oh! We are also trying out a new Events Coordinator! She has a history of excellent event planning and consistent communications. The battle bots will be a challenging task to manage. I hope to do what I can to help, but I'm doing so many other super cool things. We've ratified our by-laws and we're positioning ourselves for 501(c)3 status with the feds. We have(officially) a Treas, Sec, Pres, VP and Committee Manager as of Jan 6th. I've also been spending some time getting a good chunk of funding, getting materials for a pizza-cutting robot, setting up our year's accounting and training key members so I can soon delegate some opportunities.

I will have the full rules posted to the site by ten this morning. Check back then!


http://mthackers.com/Compete