My Solidoodle 3 printer finally came in last week and I was able to pretty much plug it in and start printing. I immediately noticed that something needed to be done about the filament spool. With it being a new spool, the filament was just falling off  at the slightest turn on the PVC holder which was really annoying because that meant I had to babysit it. So with a small filament holder I found on thingiverse and some old folders, I was able to come up with a solution that allows me to hit ‘print’ and then just walk away until my print is done.

Chris Cockrum of the Baltimore Hackerspace will be giving a course on Cryptography this Wednesday, February 20th at the Baltimore Hackerspace. He will be teaching the fundamentals of public and secret key cryptography including exercises on RSA, elliptic curve, and cryptanalysis using Sagemath (Python Based).

According to Meetup, the class is full but if you are interested in having another class, please let us know by leaving us a message on the meetup entry.

Here’s what’s going on this week at openHack:

• More Raspberry Pi tutorials
• Working on the Telepresence Robot.
• Continuing work on the Battlebot
• Heater building (hey, it’s cold man!)
• Hex (the Robot) demo’s
• Hopefully there will be some quadcopters roaming around tonight too.
• Fun with barely legal electronic cigarettes!

Look for our sign out front and see you tonight!

Here’s what’s going on Wed. Feb 6th Baltimore Hackerspace:

1. Telepresence Robot – The basic design is down, wireless ipCam – check, steering mechanism – check, motors to power the wheels – check.
2. Installing ‘Occidentalis’ on Rasberry Pi’s and connecting them wirelessly to a network. Continuing through adafruit tutorials. – Didn’t get too far with that last week.
3. Jeff will be coding in python and C.
4. Continue building the Prusa 3d Printer.
5. Robot Building / Heater building – Miles is building a kick-but battle bot!
6. Much fun usually surfaces real time so we’ll see what else is happening.

6410 Landay Ave.
Baltimore MD. 21237

Look for our sign out front and see you there!

Here’s what’s going on tonight at Baltimore Hackerspace:

1. Guest Speaker Jim Jackson, HTML5 for .NET Developers
2. Continure building the Prusa 3d Printer.
3. Installing ‘Occidentalis’ on Rasberry Pi’s and connecting them wirelessly to a network. Continuing through adafruit tutorials.
4. A rebuild of a classic video gaming console.
5. Continue the design of our autonomous telepresence robot.

6410 Landay Ave.
Baltimore MD. 21237

Look for our sign out front and see you there!

Last week, Terry Kilby from Baltimore Drones stopped by Baltimore Hackerspace and he brought a couple of his Drones with him. I think it was the first time allot of us have seen Drones of this quality up close and they were just as exciting as I thought they would be. Both Drones were made to port a camera on the bottom of them and Terry said that he frequently contracts out the Drones for special camera work. Very cool!

To find out more about drones and how to get off the ground with them, The Baltimore Drones Meetup will be held at Baltimore Hackerspace, Saturday, February 9th at 1pm.

Here are some pics:

Here’s what’s going on tonight:

1. Raspberry Pi tutorials.
2. An electric cigarette project that you have to see for yourself.
3. Fun with Arduino’s and relays.
4. Assembling a Makerbot Prusa.
5. Wheel hubs and a vacuum table.
6. Hex will be getting some upgrades
7. Kicad layout/schematic entry.

Here’s what’s going on this Wednesday at openHack:

1. Face scanning  (Jeff)
2. Assembling a MakerGear Prusa (Jessica)
3. Printing motor mounts and playing with kinect (Miles).
4. Rummaging through some Rasberry Pi tutorials from adafruit.com (Eric).
5. Working on design for tank robot (Mark, Eric)
6. I’m sure someone will be printing something out on the CNC machine as well.
7. Optimize my Arduino Fireplace Fan. Thanks for the tips Jason!

Hope to see you!

*** UPDATE ** added some pics from open hack night