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NASA SpaceApps challenge

Posted on May 13, 2013 by sighmon

On the weekend of the 20th/21st of April Hackerspace Adelaide hosted the local site of the NASA SpaceApps Challenge. The idea of the weekend is to explore the data that NASA collect from their satellites, rovers and probes, and try and … Continue reading →

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Hackerspace at the Adelaide Mini Maker Faire

Posted on April 7, 2013 by kira0030

It was an awesome day!!  The organisers are saying anywhere between two thousand and four thousand people attended. Robots And Dinosaurs http://robodino.org/ Project Horus http://projecthorus.org/ Photos courtesy of Damien Presser – more of Damien’s photos can be found here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151868192892575.1073741825.751762574&type=1&l=d37ba64f42

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Linux.Conf.Au & Visit To Make, Hack, Void

Posted on April 7, 2013 by kira0030

linux .conf.au this year was in Canberra and those from Hackerspace who went along had a great time. The first two days are made up of mini conferences or miniconfs. Robyn Willison was the chief organiser of the Haecksen miniconf. … Continue reading →

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Adelaide Mini Maker Faire

Posted on April 3, 2013 by kira0030

We’re exhibiting at the Maker Faire.  Some of the projects which will be on display are: A Twitter printer Jacob’s Ladder Hodoscopes Project Horus High Altitude Ballooning

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First hacksession in our new space

Posted on January 3, 2013 by pix

As 2012 came to a close, when most things were winding up for the holidays, Hackerspace Adelaide was madly moving house. Following our presentation about Hackerspace on the MEGA pitch day, Jana Matthews of ANZ Innovyz START offered us some space … Continue reading →

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Laser cutting at FabLab

Posted on November 2, 2012 by JonW

This week the Adelaide FabLab is holding a masterclass on digital fabrication.  As part of this HackAdl member Tamsyn has created an introduction for using the Laser Cutter with Inkscape.  The blog post can be found here:

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Science Alive Gallery

Posted on August 13, 2012 by JonW

Dale had his camera at science alive and took plenty of photos including the Amateur radio and Electronics booth and of course, Hackerspace. His blog post is here  

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End of June update

Posted on July 2, 2012 by JonW

The adelaide hackerspace recently submitted an application to become an incorporated body.  This week Pix brought the certificate along. Simon has decided to build a hexapod robot using micro RC servos.  To simplify the task of driving the required eighteen … Continue reading →

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24 Hour Hacksession

Posted on June 12, 2012 by JonW

This weekend a few hardy souls gathered together for a hacksession organised by Robyn that was so incredible it could not be contained within a simple 3 hour period. Robyn continued to work on her robot Pix brought along his … Continue reading →

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May update

Posted on June 3, 2012 by JonW

Robyn brought along a robotic vacuum cleaner with a stuck brush.  It was later seen happily cleaning the floor of Formats basement. Scott continued to work with wireless communications. Hackerspace logo being printed on the Huxley The Huxley continues to … Continue reading →

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