Is tomizzle! Be there! D&D is on an off-week, so we’ll have more people to play Settlers, Risk, XBOX, and… maybe… maybe… Axis & Allies.
Game Night at Workshop 88
Every Thursday starting at 6 or 6:30pm
planca.st/59P
Game Nizzle!
Posted 07/21/2010 by Jay Margalus
General Meeting – July 26
Posted 07/21/2010 by Jay Margalus
Start your week off right with a Workshop 88 General Meeting! Next week, we’ll continue talking buildout projects. Also at the meeting next week: Me! So long as my car doesn’t crap out (again), leaving me stranded and crying in the driveway.
I sat in it for 20 minutes, despondent look on my face. Ask my wife.
ANYWAY.
If there’s anything you’d like brought up at the meeting, make a mention in the comments below or e-mail info@workshop88.com. For instance, I’d like to see the walls coated in gumdrops and the tables made out of candy canes & graham crackers.
Make it so.
Workshop 88 General Meetings
6:30pm, biweekly on Mondays
http://planca.st/5DW
Welcome to Our New Members
Posted 07/20/2010 by Jay Margalus
This is a new series of posts tagged under #welcomingcommittee where we welcome new Workshop 88 members to the hackerspace community.
WELCOME to our two newest members: Greg Williams and Dawn Kuczwara. Greg and Dawn are both from the tech industry. I haven’t met them yet, but other people from Workshop 88 have, and vouch for their goodness.
Greg, I’m told, herds nerds for a living (not in his words). He has a forge and two anvils in his garage. My knowledge with forges and anvils stops at World of Warcraft, so I’ll be schmoozing with Greg whenever we meet to learn how to thoroughly meld and sunder shit. Preferably things made out of mithril, but one can’t be picky.
Greg also gave our group a hammer, and I can only assume it looked something like this. Thanks for the hammer, Greg.
Dawn is the head of (and I beg pardon for the generality) a “Girls in Tech Group” in Chicago. I’m not sure what the name of it is, but it sounds really awesome, and I might even have a few people interested in joining this group of ladies in tech. Someone told me Dawn tore a hole into our floor the size of the sinkhole in Guatemala, but what I think they meant to say is that she helped with some serious work on our new workshop floor. Thanks, Dawn!
Both Greg AND Dawn have managed multiple sci-fi conventions, so I can only assume their knowledge of Dr. Who is more extensive than my own. This makes me feel insecure, and slightly threatened.
Welcome Greg and Dawn! Welcome to our crazy group at Workshop 88!!
Game Night! This Thursday!
Posted 07/12/2010 by castil
This Thursday, and every Thursday is Game Night at Workshop88.
Doors open at 6:30PM. and goes until the last of our members decides to go home.
Our president, Russ Lankenau will be officiating his weekly D&D game sporting a spiffy wizard hat.
Bring your portable console, or make your console portable, and then bring it to the space (bring a TV to connect to it too). Bring some comfortable seating, and share your most frustratingly obscure game.
Laptops, cabinets, board games, checkers and chess are welcome. If you can play with it, we want you to share it!
There will be an original XBOX, a PS2, a projector and a couple of televisions available.
Because the new space doesn’t yet have internet service, all games must be self contained and not have an online component. Sorry WoWers and Second Lifers, we’re working on it.
The event is for the most part BYOS (bring your own stuff.) There’s a Starbucks in the same block should you require some caffeine. And I’ll bring a cooler with ice to hold your beverages. If you want to share some tasty snacks with us it will be most appreciated. The idea is to share and game together. Without much of an agenda.
If you have any questions, comment on this entry or email us at info@workshop88.com
Hope to see you there.
Build-Out Saturday!
Posted 07/09/2010 by castil
Workshop 88 needs your help this Saturday getting up and running in our new location in Glen Ellyn! We’ve prepped the floor of the workshop area for priming and painting, but we need help sanding, spackling, cleaning, and with any other gerund you can think of. We’ll be there at noon, we have some basic things over there for our work, but not to much as of yet.
So if you have tools you’d like to bring, especially things that would help in
the buildout (putty knives, paint rollers, all painting equipment for that matter, saws, drills, oh and I have no idea how nobody has brought over a hammer yet) please bring them with.
We will respond to any questions via this post. Or email info@workshop88.com
See you all there!
July 12, 2010 General Meeting
Posted 07/06/2010 by Jay Margalus
Our new space is coming along quite nicely, and we’ve already found a neighborhood bar a block away that doesn’t mind selling us beer.
Join us Next Monday, July 12th, at 6:30pm for the second general meeting at Workshop 88. I’ve been told this is the address: “481 N Main St. Rear Building Unit B, Glen Ellyn, IL”. You’ll be better off mapping out the intersection of Pennsylvania and Main, Glen Ellyn like-a-so:
…and then following this video, which may be the first ever “how-to-find-a-hackerspace” Maker video ever created (update: new video, that wold make two):
Hope to see you there!
A Workshop88 Work Day
Posted 07/05/2010 by castil
Hard at work making the place better, removing the glue on the workshop floor, and smoothing the walls before we paint them up. It’s a good day at Workshop88.
More about the new space.
Posted 06/30/2010 by castil
We finally have a space to stretch our legs and spread out. The massive public space will be outfitted with comfortable seating and a wireless connection so our members can read, chat, work on crafts, have meetings and bring the projector to watch a movie, or play vintage video games. The space will also be easily converted to a classroom for presentations and guest speakers.
The workshop space will be divided in a carpentry and heavy duty space for projects that require power tools, and an electronics and art workshop, for projects that require light soldering and paint.
The back room will be the W88 medialab. It will feature padded walls for sound isolation. Podcasts and video projects will be produced in this space, and will feature space for editing, monitoring and mixing audio and video projects. The space may also be used as a photography studio.
Come to our public meetings to check out our space, or email info@workshop88.com to schedule a visit. Let us know what kind of projects you’re interested in making, and consider joining our community.
Pardon our Dust.
Posted 06/28/2010 by castil
It took no time to plan out the future of the new space. and rip out the carpet in the future workspace.
We can look forward to a nice hang out area with couches, craft tables, and computers; carpentry, and electronics work stations, and a media lab for podcasting and video projects.
We’re pretty proud of our new location, it’s smack in the middle of Downtown Glen Ellyn, in the same block we have a bakery, a Starbucks, a pizza shop, the Glen Arts movie theater, yet out of the way and secluded enough to ensure privacy.
Visit us soon, come to the meetings, or email info@workshop88.com to schedule a visit.
Workshop 88 – General Meeting
Posted 06/28/2010 by castil
Celebrate with us the inaugural meeting in our brand new space.
It’s bigger, and longer, it’s in the middle of downtown Glen Ellyn, yet completely out of the way.
The new space is a bit tricky to find for those who don’t know already 
It’s address is on main st. in Glen Ellyn, but the actual access is off of pennsylvania. There is a parking lot with a little park on the south side of pennsylvania, just east of main st. (right past a glitzy cafe called “Honey”) and the alley way in the back is the access to our space (look down for the red awning).
Bring your own chair.
June 28 (that’s today) at 6:30 PM.