[dc401-l] Jan Meeting - Mitch Altman - Trippy RGB Light Workshop and Community Building Talk

[John Duksta]

Date/Time: 14 Jan 2008 - 1700-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

We totally lucked out! Mitch Altman, inventor of the TV-B-Gone, will  
be passing through RI and has agreed to come by and do a workshop and  
a talk. Big thanks go out to Brian Jepson for swinging Mitch in our  
direction.

The Trippy RGB Light is made from hacking a MiniPOV kit. It's quick  
to build, which is good given our short window at AS220. It's also  
versatile. When you take it home, you can re-hack it into a Brain  
Machine, a Solar Bug Bot or an open source TV-B-Gone.

Mitch gave us a variety of topics on which he could speak. We're  
getting our geek on with the workshop, so I figured something non- 
technical might be a nice foil. Mitch will be talking on Community  
Building, something we'll need to do a fair amount of if we want the  
hacker space to get off the ground and prosper.

Since we'll be doing a workshop, we'll need get started a little  
earlier, so be at AS220 at 1700 if you want to take part in the  
workshop. We'll get the talk going sometime around 1800, as usual. If  
you want to do the workshop, post a comment[1] on the site and  
include your email so I can send you a confirmation. I'll do a bulk  
buy of the MiniPOV kits and extra LEDs and you all can pay me back at  
the meeting.

[1] http://dc401.org/site/2007/12/january-meeting-mitch-altman-t.html

See you there.

-j