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== Middle == [5 minute] I want to briefly show you just a few way cool hackerspace projects that I've come across, all grown from people doing what they love. Like most projects at hackerspaces, they're all open source for others to learn from, to use, to innovate. slide: BlinkLights2.wmv, with logos for CCC and C-Base, title: Blinken Lights CCC/C-Base (Berlin) (This project blew my mind.) For Das Blinken Lights project, the city of Berlin gave the Chaos Computer Club, the well-respected German hacker group, access to this building. They put a bright light in each window, each under computer control, turning the building into a giant computer screen. They set up a website with open source software to control it, where anyone in the world was invited to hack on it. Initially, it could display an image. Soon there were animations and scrolling text. And eventually, the first two people who called in on their phones could play Pong on the building. After seeing this project, I was hooked on the hacker scene! video of BorgCube, with logo for Das Labor, title: "BorgCube - Das Labor, Bochum, Germany" BorgCube .. is a lot of colored lights in the shape of a cube to create a low-resolution 3D display that plays hours of the trippiest 3 Dimensional animations! (This is the first thing I saw at my first hacker conference, and, as a hardware geek into shiny things, I fell in love.) slide: photo of Earth from SpaceBridge launch title: SpaceBridge, Noisebridge, San Francisco A few people at Noisebridge, calling themselves SpaceBrigde, decided they wanted a snapshot of the planet. $250 and 6 weeks later, they sent a balloon into near space and got this photo. (This is what can happen when people get together to collaborate on a dream.) They documented everything so that others could do what they did. With improvements from balloon launches by hackerspaces around the world, the project is now simple enough that high school kids can do this on their own (and win at science fairs). slide: graphic of very crude line drawing of space-suited-person standing on moon title: "The Hackerspace Space Program" There is now a Hackerspace Space Program with an ambitious goal: A hacker on the moon by the year 2023! Will we reach that goal? - Who cares.. Just think of all that will be learned along the way! slide: photo of MakerBot, with NYC Resistor logo, title: "MakerBot - NYC Resistor, New York City" MakerBot ..is a 3D printer, one of the first inexpensive ones that worked well. You create a representation of any 3D object on your computer screen; press the PRINT button - and within minutes, the MakerBot will actually *print out* the object in plastic. 3D printers are almost common place now, all because people at NYC Resistor thought this was cool! video: Stompy, with Artisan's Asylum logo title: Stompy - Artisan's Asylum, Boston. (This one is awesome.) Stompy .. is an 1,800 Kg, 6 legged robot with a 100KW engine, that 2 people can ride on top of. It's big enough that a car can drive under it. (This project happened simply because a few hackers loved the idea of giant robots they could ride on. The idea seems to be contagious, as now a huge group of people are making it happen.) slide: photo of Meat Cards, with Hive76 logo. title: Meat Cards - Hive76, Philadelphia. Meat Cards, is a company started by Hive76 members who use the space's laser engraver to make business cards on beef jerky (dried meat slices). slide: photos of DIY Geiger Counter and SafeCast. with logos for Tokyo Hackerspace and Crash Space, title: DIY Geiger Counter & SafeCast - Tokyo Hackerspace / Crash Space, LA After the disaster at Fukushima last year, people were unsatisfied with the lack of info coming from the Japanese gov't. Tokyo Hackerspace made cheap, Do-It-Yourself Geiger Counters so anyone can measure radiation levels. But there's a problem: no one knew what normal radiation levels were since no one measured radiation at all these places before. So someone at Crash Space organized SafeCast, a non-profit organization, set out to fix this. They give away DIY Geiger Counters to people to travel with all over the world, which automatically uploads all the data collected to an online database, open and free for anyone to use. (This is citizen science in action!) slide: photo of OpenPCR, with Bio Curious logo. title: OpenPCR - Bio Curious, San Francisco Bay Area OpenPCR is an open source PCR machine that anyone can use to replicate DNA on your desktop. It works great, and costs a few hundred dollars, rather than several thousand dollars it would cost if you bought a professional one. This, together with many other DIY bio tools, (along with imagination and desire) make it possible to create entire biology labs for very little money. slide: photo of HDD Centrifuge, with brmlab logo, title: HDD Centrifuge - brmlab, Prague. A cheap way to make a centrifuge for DIY bio is to tape test tubes to a motor from an old computer Hard Disk Drive. For this one, brmlab used their 3D printer to make test tube holders that mount to the disk drive's motor, and added an inexpensive motor speed controller. video Code Hero, with Noisebridge logo. title: Code Hero - Noisebridge, San Francisco Code Hero, ..is an engaging computer game full of awesome 3D computer graphics. As you explore and play this game, you learn how to program, and how to make your own computer games. (it's also imbued with its creator's incredible inspirational living philosophy) These are just a few of the zillions of projects going on at hackerspaces around the world Whimsical to practical; Big and small; Merely fun to world changing; (and all without much money). All simply because people love them. All shared with the world as open source.
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