The quintessential hacker movie, War Games, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a special 1-night only showing on the big screen. (Wired ran a feature article about the movie today, as well.)
There is a Planypus event page where you can sign up (to let me know to look for you/save you a seat [...]
HacDC’s effort at the Last Hope was a roaring success! Thanks to all who participated in the Hackerspace Village and HackersMart! We’ll definitely be bringing those to a con near you very soon (as in, after we get some sleep!)
And congrats to Eliot for his CNet mention! Mail us your HOPE links [...]
We’ve actually been open since late April, but we haven’t had an official grand opening ceremony yet.
So, since we’ve been waiting a while to get around to it, why not make it a full blown week? Jens Ohlig from C4 and Johannes Grenzfurthner from Monochrom and the Metalab will be on hand to help [...]
+++ monochrom
+++ LAW AND SECOND ORDER
+++ An evening in Washington DC
=== Wednesday, July 23 at 8:30 PM
=== 1525 Newton St NW (Enter on Newton, Church Sanctuary)
This is the first publicly announced event for HacDC’s “Grand Opening Week” July 21-27
When you want aerial imagery from below 1,000 feet, a tethered balloon is the obvious solution. Hang a few high-res cameras from it and see the area from a unique perspective!
Weather permitting, Curt Westergard of AirPhotosLive will be at the HacDC space around 3:00 pm today (Saturday, July 5th) to demonstrate his aerostat photography rig. Come learn how it works, [...]
Tuesday after the regular membership meeting, HacDC’s own Nate B will take the podium and present an unstructured introduction to all things wireless. This talk is intended for radio newbies, and non-members are welcome!
Whether you’re curious about wifi antenna building, or just not clear on the difference between AM and FM, bring your questions and [...]
(Please distribute widely to interested parties!)
The Washington DC Area has a Hacker Space: HacDC.
We have a space, tools, equipment, donated resources and a growing crop of enthusiastic participants who are ready to launch the organization. We’ve seen the need for a space to collaborate on all forms of technology, culture and [...]
This coming Saturday we will be holding our first Python sprint at HacDC, it will be from 12-4PM. Bring your Python projects or bring your laptops and we will give you a project to do !
Howdy - There will be an organizational meeting tonight at HacDC around 7:00PM. I (Q) will be there a little sooner hopefully if you wish to stop by and toy around before the meeting, otherwise we will see you at 7 !
Open lab tonight and EVERY Wednesday night at HacDC, 6 PM - 10 PM (or later!)
Come help organize all the stuff we got from the Parts Party…or bring more stuff by! Figure out what you want to do and how you want to get involved. Or just break/make/hack stuff!
E-mail info@hacdc.org!