Freeside Atlanta

[Reposted from Dan's email] Just sending out a little update about the Circuit Bending Workshop/Class. We had 9 people attend, 4 non-members, 5 members. We killed 2 toys but managed to salvage parts and useful bits from them. I'm going to make the workshop every other week. So 2 weeks from today (August 26th) we will meet from 7(ish) to 9(ish) to hack and bend circuits. I'm going to order up more kits and parts for the next class as well as hunt for more toys. Please drop me an email if you would like to Sign up for the class and reserve/prepay for a kit. If you happen to have spare toys sitting around your house that you would like to donate please let me know, I'll be happy to come pick them up. I also want to thank everyone for coming out. I hope you all had a blast.

I stopped by the space to drop off some equipment yesterday, and took a minute to do another walk-through video.

[Cross-posted from the 2009-07-01 entry on my personal blog.] In January, I asked if anybody in Atlanta was interested in starting a hacker space . Turns out, many people were indeed interested! To say I've been pleasantly surprised would be a huge understatement. In a few short months, we've organized a thriving group of more than 50 dues-paying members -- with another 70 on-lookers, judging by the mailing list -- and we have recently signed a lease to make this thing a reality. We've met just about every Monday night at Manuel's Tavern to organize our effort and discuss specifics. We spread out across the city to investigate dozens of potential properties for lease. I think we drove the real estate agents a little batty with all of our questions. We were thorough . We analyzed other hacker spaces , with an eye on the lessons they learned. We made a huge effort to replicate things that went well with the others, and avoid things that did not. Our wiki became a repos

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