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This week’s schedule (Sep 08 – Sep 15)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Monday, from 07:00PM TA3M:

    Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Currently, TA3M are held in various cities throughout the world. [1]

    Join us for the local Durham TA3M [2], held the third Monday of every month at SplatSpace in Durham [3]!

    RSVP optional.

    [1] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays
    [2] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:durham
    [3] http://splatspace.org/location/

We hope to see you out!

DIY Laptop Stickers

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We recently got a new vinyl cutter at Splatspace, which has let members start making their own vinyl decals. One of our members is a huge comics fan, and used our vinyl cutter to make a new sticker from art for a not-yet released comic:

This was an easy image to turn into a decal at Splatspace. As the member explain’s:

Using Inkcut, a plugin for Inkscape, another member at Splatspace helped me create the sticker and cut it out of white vinyl. It was a pretty good sample project, because the design is super simple and blocky.

The cutter, a Roland Vinyl Cutter, actually functions as a printer; you process an image in Inkscape to reduce it to just the lines you want, and then use Inkcut to send it as a print file to the cutter. It’s a really simple process.

And here’s the final product:

Non Compliant

Interested in making your own stickers for your computer, or other decals? Come to a meeting, and learn about using the vinyl cutter!

This week’s schedule (Sep 01 – Sep 08)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Saturday, from 01:00PM TriLUG/DurLUG bash Bashing Workshop:

    PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE

    Following the TriLUG seminar on the BASH shell on Sept. 6, let’s gather and spend some time practicing what we learned!

    This “bash bashing” is happening at Splat*Space in Durham, Sat. Aug 30 at 1pm – 4pm.

    All persons are welcome to attend, and wired & wireless networking and power available.  Plenty of mentors will be around, and some small demonstrations will be presented of the material gone over at the meeting, an FAQ session will be presented, and other questions answered.  Please bring your device with bash installed — including MS-Windows boxes with cygwin installed.

    Splat*Space is located at 331 W. Main Street in Downtown Durham — there is a front and back entrance. We recommend you go onto Ramseur St. and enter through the back, using the parking in the back.  Signs will be posted in the glass door of the red-brick building with cement horizontal strips and window sills (the historic Snow Building).  Splat*Space is in the basement — call for someone to let you in.

    Feel free to inquire about Splat*Space and other activities there, but please be respectful of the materials and personal property in the ‘space.

    Looking forward to seeing you there.

  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Craft Project Night:

    Bring your textile, paper, jewelry, fiber, metal, or any type of craft project to the space.

  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Software Project Night:

    Come to Software Project Night with a project that you want to show off, you want to ask others for help with, or that you just want to work on.

    Come to Software Project Night with a software topic you want to talk about because you think it’s cool, or you want to understand it better.

    Come to Software Project Night if you’re a beginner or an expert programmer: sharing your unique perspective on software is what makes Software Project Night work!

We hope to see you out!

This week’s schedule (Aug 25 – Sep 01)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Saturday, from 03:00PM TriLUG Lightning Talk Prep Session:

    TriLUG will be running an optional Lightning Talk prep session at
    Splat Space in Durham (331 W. Main St.) on Saturday, August 30th from
    15:00-18:00 EDT so people can exchange ideas and work on their talks.
    People can go out to dinner afterwords if interested.

We hope to see you out!

This week’s schedule (Aug 18 – Aug 25)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Monday, from 07:00PM TA3M:

    Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Currently, TA3M are held in various cities throughout the world. [1]

    Join us for the local Durham TA3M [2], held the third Monday of every month at SplatSpace in Durham [3]!

    RSVP optional.

    [1] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays
    [2] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:durham
    [3] http://splatspace.org/location/

  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Saturday, from 02:00PM Triangle Embedded Computing Hack Afternoon (TriEmbed):

    Triangle Embedded Computing Interest Group (TriEmbed)

    It’s time again for another Hack Afternoon at SplatSpace!

    What is an Arduino? What is a Raspberry Pi?  See these links for more info:

     

    http://arduino.cc/

     

    http://raspberrypi.org/

     

    No prior experience is required to attend hack afternoon and you don’t even need to own an Arduino. There are plenty of members who will be glad to let you look over their shoulder and ask questions. Some will even hand you some parts and let you tinker. If you have your own parts, definitely bring them. We have lots of space and everyone should have room to work on a reasonably sized project.

    You don’t need to be a member of SplatSpace in order to attend, but please do ask about the membership options while you’re there. It’s a great group of folks and, if you’re into embedded computing there’s a good chance that you’ll share interests with other attendees.

    Go here for directions to SplatSpace: http://splatspace.org/location/…

    If anyone has projects they’d like to collaborate on, feel free to start a conversation on the http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org mailing list. This announcement has also been cross-posted to that list.

    We hope to see you there!

  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Craft Project Night:

    Bring your textile, paper, jewelry, fiber, metal, or any type of craft project to the space.

  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Software Project Night:

    Come to Software Project Night with a project that you want to show off, you want to ask others for help with, or that you just want to work on.

    Come to Software Project Night with a software topic you want to talk about because you think it’s cool, or you want to understand it better.

    Come to Software Project Night if you’re a beginner or an expert programmer: sharing your unique perspective on software is what makes Software Project Night work!

We hope to see you out!

This week’s schedule (Aug 11 – Aug 18)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Software Project Night:

    Come to Software Project Night with a project that you want to show off, you want to ask others for help with, or that you just want to work on.

    Come to Software Project Night with a software topic you want to talk about because you think it’s cool, or you want to understand it better.

    Come to Software Project Night if you’re a beginner or an expert programmer: sharing your unique perspective on software is what makes Software Project Night work!

  • Monday, from 07:00PM TA3M:

    Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Currently, TA3M are held in various cities throughout the world. [1]

    Join us for the local Durham TA3M [2], held the third Monday of every month at SplatSpace in Durham [3]!

    RSVP optional.

    [1] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays
    [2] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:durham
    [3] http://splatspace.org/location/

We hope to see you out!

This week’s schedule (Aug 04 – Aug 11)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Craft Project Night:

    Bring your textile, paper, jewelry, fiber, metal, or any type of craft project to the space.

We hope to see you out!

This week’s schedule (Jul 28 – Aug 04)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

    • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:
      Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

      How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

      We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

    • Saturday, from 01:00PM Meet the ShapeOko CNC Mill:

      Come to the Splatspace Fabrication Annex (right down the hall from the main Splatspace meeting room) to learn how to use the ShapeOko mill that we just won from Inventables.

      We will have 20 blank bottle opener kits on hand, ready to be custom-engraved with your design. (If you want to try out the bottle openers, you’ll have to bring your own bottles to open: BYOB.)

      We will also have some computers available and people to help you out with the design work.

      Note that the actual milling is taking place in the Annex, down the hall from the main Space. Starting at 2 there will be a Chromebook meetup in the main Space.

 

Durham LUGo

 

  • Saturday, from 02:00PM Durham LUG Meetup – Presentation on Google Chromebooks + Meet & Greet:
    At this Meetup a presentation will be given about Google Chromebooks, and afterwards there will be time to meet other members, and discuss your passion about GNU/Linux!

    The presentation will go over ChromeOS, and the various ways to install a full blown GNU/Linux distribution on them. We will cover popular Linux distributions known to run well, and what type of performance can be expected.

We hope to see you out!

This week’s schedule (Jul 21 – Jul 28)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Monday, from 07:00PM TA3M:

    Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Currently, TA3M are held in various cities throughout the world. [1]

    Join us for the local Durham TA3M [2], held the third Monday of every month at SplatSpace in Durham [3]!

    RSVP optional.

    [1] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays
    [2] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:durham
    [3] http://splatspace.org/location/
  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Saturday, from 01:00PM Personal Digital Fabrication Saturday
  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Craft Project Night:

    Bring your textile, paper, jewelry, fiber, metal, or any type of craft project to the space.

We hope to see you out!

This week’s schedule (Jul 14 – Jul 21)

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Here’s this week’s schedule:

  • Tuesday, from 07:15PM Splat Space Open Meeting:

    Open Meetings on Tuesdays include member show & tell, project updates, and calls for collaborative hacking from 7pm-8pm. By 8:00pm, the meeting will break and everyone is free to mingle, work on projects, and get to know fellow hackers.

    How to get here: http://splatspace.org/location/

    We’re in the basement below Beyu Caffe @ 331 W. Main St. Parking behind the building on Ramseur St — there is plenty of parking and it’s free on weekends and/or as long as you exit the lot after 7pm.

  • Saturday, from 02:00PM Triangle Embedded Computing Hack Afternoon (TriEmbed):

    Triangle Embedded Computing Interest Group (TriEmbed)

    It’s time again for another Hack Afternoon at SplatSpace!

    What is an Arduino? What is a Raspberry Pi?  See these links for more info:
    http://arduino.cc/
    http://raspberrypi.org/…

    No prior experience is required to attend hack afternoon and you don’t even need to own an Arduino. There are plenty of members who will be glad to let you look over their shoulder and ask questions. Some will even hand you some parts and let you tinker. If you have your own parts, definitely bring them. We have lots of space and everyone should have room to work on a reasonably sized project.

    You don’t need to be a member of SplatSpace in order to attend, but please do ask about the membership options while you’re there. It’s a great group of folks and, if you’re into embedded computing there’s a good chance that you’ll share interests with other attendees.

    Go here for directions to SplatSpace: http://splatspace.org/location/…

    If anyone has projects they’d like to collaborate on, feel free to start a conversation on the http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org mailing list. This announcement has also been cross-posted to that list.

    We hope to see you there!

  • Sunday, from 06:00PM Software Project Night:

    Come to Software Project Night with a project that you want to show off, you want to ask others for help with, or that you just want to work on.

    Come to Software Project Night with a software topic you want to talk about because you think it’s cool, or you want to understand it better.

    Come to Software Project Night if you’re a beginner or an expert programmer: sharing your unique perspective on software is what makes Software Project Night work!

We hope to see you out!