Arduino Class

Join us on August 24th for a 6 week class as we join O’Reilly’s training class. http://training.oreilly.com/arduino/

For those of you that are new to Arduinos:

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. link

What you’ll learn:

• Use Processing to create basic software applications
• Make your own drawing and animation tools
• Create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to control your software
• Use an Arduino to provide physical controls for your drawing and animation tools

We’d like to find out how many people are coming so if you’re interested, please sign up on our Meetup.com page: http://meetup.com/u/jvS

Interlock Story From Ithaca College

Bryant K from Ithaca College came up to visit and interview some of the members about hacking, Interlock, and the scene.

Check out his video and great blog post.

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First Friday / Barcamp This Weekend

This Friday, Interlock and the rest of the Hungerford building will open as part of the First Friday art exhibit. If you haven’t visited during a First Friday you can expect a good time to meet other members of Interlock and explore the building looking for some interesting art and people.

Also this Friday, Interlock will be hosting the Rochester 2600 meetings. An info sec interest group.

This Saturday we’ll be attending Barcamp Rochester. This is an event at RIT that a lot of people will be attending. The idea is anyone can attend but you must participate by doing a talk.

Check out our calendar for times and other events going on.

Linux Workshop This Weekend

We are holding a Linux Workshop this Saturday, March 20 from noon to 4PM.

If you’ve never been to the Linux Workshops in the past they’re a lot of fun and a great way to learn something new!  Everyone is welcome!

Experts will be on hand to help with any Linux questions or problems you might have. So bring in your computer and let us help you get the most out of it. Or come and answer questions for others.

Lightning Smarts

Last night more than two dozen people joined us for our second edition of Lightning Talks. A time for people to share their interests or a random subject they’ve just learned. The talks showed the range of knowledge of Interlock from artificial intellegence, soldering, art history, orienteering, making booklets, cross site scripting attacks, the board game go, IRSSI, cat5 cables, learning how to program, things going on at RIT, guest wireless access points, offsite backup solutions, and 3D molecule rendering.

Lightning Talks this week!

This Tuesday at 7pm will be our second Interlock Lightning talks. If you didn’t hear about our last one, it was a ton of fun and a lot of people came out.

Here’s more info on what a Lightning Talk is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk

If you’ve never heard of the idea, it’s easy. You make a presentation but it’s only 5 minutes long. We’d like to have everyone involved. The more presentations we have the better. The only rules is, you have 5 minutes and you will be timed!

If you’re not a member, we want you to come and you can even do a talk or just sit back and be entertained.  Anyone that would like to be added to the list can email antitree at interlock roc dot org.

Lightning Talks at Rochester Hackerspace

Last night marked the Rochester Hackerspace’s first lightning talk event where we invited members and friends to come and present on a subject of their choosing that is less than 5 minutes long.  The subjects reflected the diverse backgrounds of its members; making pcb boards, bump keys, book binding, boxes, wii bluetooth, and machine guns! We had almost 30 people crammed into our temporary hackerspace sitting on anything we could find.  Thanks to everyone that made it out and especially those that took the time to put a talk together.

UPDATE: RemyD was cool enough to offer his point of view on a first experience visit to Rochester’s Hackerspace and interview a few of us to help spread the word.  Check out RIT’s Innovation Center website for the article.

New Years at Interlock

Ring in the new year at Rochester’s hackerspace! A bunch of us will be there partying, playing “catch phrase,” and building robots. Feel free to bring drinks and snacks.  This informal party starts at 7pm and open to anyone that’s interested.

Interlock Visits Familab

Tonight, I was able to meetup with some of the members of Familab at their new hackerspace in Orlando, Florida. They’ve started the same time as Interlock and have been working hard to startup a cool community of hackers. The space is filleed with fun toys including a server room, maker bot, media room, and drum machine.

Thanks to everyone that showed me around. We left them with a gift of a hand made custom first edition Interlock Rochester Rubik’s Cube.

First Meeting With A Home

This week was the first time we were able to visit the new home of Interlock at 1115 E. Main St, Rochester.  This is a temporary setup until the final space across the hall is finished in February but it’s still home.

Thanks to everyone that was able to come and those of us that were able to bring stuff to make it less empty.