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Hack-A-Thon II 02/06/2010
Posted 01/26/2010 by Roofus
We’ll be holding a second hackathon 2:00pm-9:00pm Saturday February 6th. A couple projects we’ll be working on are our big near space balloon event and some beer brewing and bottling. As always bring your projects, bring your Arduinos, and bring your excitement!
We’ll be holding it at Jay’s house again, if you’re interested in attending and did not come last time, please contact info@workshop88.com for the address.
Let us know if you’re coming and discuss potential projects on the forum post.
Public Planning Meeting – 2/1/2010
Posted 01/25/2010 by Jay Margalus
We’ll be meeting at the Boilerhouse Cafe again (29 N Loomis St, Naperville, IL 60540) on Monday, February 1st at 6:30pm. Check the meeting minutes from last week for specifics on what we’ll all have done by then.
Look forward to seeing you all there!
Hack-a-thon this Sunday
Posted 01/15/2010 by Jay Margalus
Despite the incorrect and misleading post from earlier this week, the Hack-a-thon is still going on this Sunday (the 17th) at my house. Fire me an email at jmargalus[at]workshop88[dot]com if you need directions.
Amongst other things, we’ll be making tabletop power supplies out of old computer power supplies. I’ve got some beer brewing kits that Russ and I will be working on (if anyone wants to check it out), and a few other projects I’d love to spend part of the day working on. Feel free to bring whatever you’ve got!
Public Planning Meeting 1/18/2009
Posted 01/11/2010 by Jay Margalus
Workshop 88 will be meeting in the Boilerhouse Cafe at North Central College (29 N Loomis St, Naperville, IL 60540) again on January 18. I know we talked about perhaps not having the meeting, being that it’s on MLK Day, but after some discussion we decided to keep the meetings as regular as possible.
This meeting will be open to the public, and we’ll be discussing, amongst other things:
- The location search
- How the Hack-a-thon went!
- Recruiting more members
- The (sort of) Secret Challenge we talked about at the last meeting
We’ll have another post up soon on the Hack-a-thon (remember, it’s this coming Saturday!), but that’s all for now.
I Made a CueCat Decrypter in PHP
Posted 01/06/2010 by Jay Margalus
This is a repost from my blog:
I wrote a :CueCat decrypter for Workshop 88 based on the following scheme:
| A | B | C | |
| 0 | C3 | n | Z |
| 1 | CN | j | Y |
| 2 | Cx | f | X |
| 3 | Ch | b | W |
| 4 | D3 | D | 3 |
| 5 | DN | z | 2 |
| 6 | Dx | v | 1 |
| 7 | Dh | r | 0 |
| 8 | E3 | T | 7 |
| 9 | EN | P | 6 |
You should check it out here, where I’ve also included the process.php file for download.
I’ll be working on additional features in the future, including product listing and price comparisons.
fo·rum (fôrm, fr-)
Posted 01/02/2010 by Roofus
n. pl. fo·rums also fo·ra (fôr, fr)
Just wanted to let you all know, our forum is online and public! Please sign up and participate in building our community. We’d especially love to hear from you if you’ve been unable to make it to our meetings.
Our first Hack-A-Thon!
Posted 12/31/2009 by Roofus
We’re going to be holding a Hack-a-Thon on Sunday January 17th at 2pm. Many of us will be converting PC power supplies to bench supplies, either to donate to the eventual Workshop 88 space, or for ourselves.
You DO NOT have to be a member to participate in the project or come to the Hack-a-thon. So please, tell your friends! The cost of the parts for each power supply ($11) you’d like to convert will be due to our treasurer at our next public meeting 01/04/2010. You are responsible for bringing your own power supply to the Hack-A-Thon to convert.
And as mentioned at the meeting if you want to bring another project to work on that’s great, just keep in mind Jay graciously volunteered his house, so let’s keep it reasonable. Those interested in attending will be given an address and directions at our next meeting (or upon request if you cannot make it).
Please stop by the forum thread for more details and let us know if you’ll be attending.
Public Planning Meeting 1/4/2010
Posted 12/28/2009 by Russ Lankenau
Our first meeting of the new year will be held on January 4th, at 6:30 PM. We’re going to meet on the main floor of the Boilerhouse Cafe at North Central College (29 N Loomis St, Naperville, IL 60540).
As always, this meeting is open to the public, so if you’re interested in what we’re doing, we encourage you to come out and share your ideas!
This meeting is an important one for several reasons:
- It will be our first meeting as an official entity! Adam and Jay did a great job getting the paperwork filled out and submitted last week, so Workshop 88 is actually a legal entity!
- We’ll be collecting dues for the first time. This has some bearing on the next point.
- We’ll be electing officers and committee chairs. If you’re interested in serving in one of these positions, and you haven’t told us yet, send email to info@workshop88.com and let us know how you want to help! To vote in this election, you’ll need to pay for a full membership ($50 per month, or $500 per year). If you want to contribute, but can’t afford the $50/month, there is also a $25/month supporting membership that doesn’t come with voting rights.
- We’ll be approving our bylaws. This document will lay out the membership privileges, operating procedures, things like that.
Two Brothers Brewery Tour
Posted 12/24/2009 by Roofus
When I first arrived at the brewery, I actually passed it up. It’s a very unassuming industrial building with a little silo on the side. If you didn’t know where to look for it, you might never know it’s there. Continuing the trend of unassuming, the door itself into the “Tap House” restaurant is just a single door that looks almost like a side entrance, with a little sign that says “Two Brothers Tap House Main Entrance.” Once you step through that door, you know you’re in the right place. You’ve been transported into a modern bar and restaurant who’s food and beer rival’s that of anywhere I’ve been in the suburbs. Everything in this building has been finely crafted, from the food to the beer to the environment. It’s obvious they take great pride in it all.