Hive76 Welcomes Raspberry Pi Developer, Rob Bishop!
Rob Bishop, a developer with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is going to be taking a short tour of US hackerspaces. We are pleased to announce that Hive76 has been included on that list! Because we are...
View ArticleIntro to Soldering Workshop
Trippy RGB Waves Kit Soldering is an essential skill to learn if you’d like to build your own electronic circuits. Come on in to Hive76 and we can teach you how to solder using Mitch Altman’s Trippy...
View ArticleSoftware Freedom Day @ PACS
Hive76′s own PJ Santoro will be doing the “Main Presentation” at the Philadelphia Area Computer Society‘s kickoff meeting, Saturday, September 15th. His topic will be “Arduino: Where It’s Been, Where...
View ArticleRender your next Logo Design
Blender, the awesome open-source do-everything model/rig/render/animate program continues to be an important part of my toolkit. The Artist Community is definitely a huge bonus. So check out this...
View ArticleShopBot as a 3D Printer: controlled by a RepRap RAMBo
suggested by Kliment via IRC (/ht), the way to have a heavy toolhead moving about in 3D with high speed AND precision is to modify a ShopBot instead of a Rostock. Recall, the Darwin suffered this...
View ArticleDelaware RepRap Prusa i3 Mendel Build Class
Our friend John Abella (of the Maker Faire 3D Printer Village and Delaware Makerspace Barrel of Makers) is running a two-day RepRap build workshop in Wilmington Delaware, October 5th and 6th....
View ArticleDIY Graphene!
I have been “hanging out” with a research group at Penn (alas, there is not a more dignified way to describe this relationship .. but at least I am there by invitation and it’s awesome). We needed to...
View ArticleDiagnostics by Design Workshop and Hackathon
Hot on the heels of their wildly successful Build My Lab contest (still 5 days left to enter!!), our friends at Tekla Labs are putting together another breakthrough event to unite DIYers and the...
View ArticleMake a keychain, learn about laser
New to the laser cutter? Want a quick intro on the basic workflow of taking a design and cutting/etching it? Want a neat little hive76 keychain? Stop by and see me (pete [the tall one]) during open...
View ArticleTesting credit card charges with Stripe in a simple Rails app
Following up on suggestions from the board meeting to look at Stripe for charging member dues, I found a couple Rails tutorials and deployed via Heroku… it works with a few lines of (rails) code! The...
View ArticleWater Rockets, Boosted!
Just in time for the Make:Philly BBQ this Sunday, here’s an article on building a water rocket with passive, drop-away boosters. According to the article, these rockets have been successfully launched...
View ArticleNintendo Hacking with nonfinite on Oct 11
8static has it’s one year party this coming Saturday night, Oct 10th, and they are bringing nonfinite of Nonfinite Electronics into town for the show. While he is here in town, we’re going to wring...
View ArticleSkeinFox v1.0 to convert STL to GCode
Download SkeinFox v1.0 (OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, git 1.6.5+) and checkout this instructional to see what this is all about. Basically this new software project (launched right here at Hive76!)...
View ArticleHackers In An Organ
Hive76 member and quartermaster Brendan Schrader got his fellow Hive members an awesome field trip last Saturday. A journey into the inside of the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, the worlds largest...
View ArticleBristle Bots
Tooth brushes, vibro-motors, and batteries, oh my! For Wednesday’s Open House, we made little Bristle-Bots. A Bristle-Bot is a little robot consisting of a vibrating motor–similar to one found in a...
View ArticleJoin us for Open Art Studio this Weekend!
Chris building a BoomCase Our entire building at 915 Spring Garden is taking part in Open Art Studios this weekend, and we’ll be there too! Almost 30 studios will be open to the public, including...
View ArticleOpen Source Orbital Shaker
Open Source Orbital Shaker Here is my entry for the Open Call for Open Science Equipment Contest. I did this with help from Mike, Jack, Rob, Adam and others right here at Hive76. Thanks everyone!...
View ArticleWe Won the Open Science Design Contest
We won! Great news, The Citizen Science Quartely just picked the winner for the Open Science Design Contest, and: WE WON!!!!!!!!1111!!111one You can read more about the original entry HERE. We’ll be...
View ArticleOpen Source Rendering with Blender, LuxRender, and SmallLuxGPU
There’s some outstanding new open-source add-ons for Blender, one of our favorite open-source 3D rendering/simulation/animation programs. The first, LuxRender is a physically based Light Modeler. It’s...
View ArticleAll About Patents
Patents, an oldie but a goodie We had some questions about provisional and full patent applications. Here’s some notes we got from a while back talking to a patent attorney. In general, US Patents cost...
View ArticleWide-Baseline Stereograms
Thanks to all who attended our first stereo photography class, it was a great turnout with several new faces! If you attended, here is some content that I just created that you can view using either...
View ArticleOpen House 08/24/2011 Recap
For Wednesday’s Open House, we experimented with using simple, house-hold items to etch common, metallic objects. We found that candle wax, melted in a thin layer on the surface to be etched, worked as...
View ArticleMonthly Monday Microcontroller Madness @ Hive76
Pile of Arduino things. by Andreas Wetterberg, on Flickr Starting at 7 PM on Monday, September 12, Hive76 will be starting a new ongoing monthly workshop focusing solely on the wonderful world of...
View ArticleSoftware Freedom Day at Phila. Area Computer Society
Saturday September 17th, Hive76 members Chris and Peejay will be co-presenting at the Phila Area Computer Society’s Season Kickoff Software Freedom Day Extravaganza. PACS meets at the Super Giant in...
View ArticleMMMM: Monitoring Motion
photo by peej That time is once again upon us! This coming Monday, October the 10th, is our second installment of the Monthly Monday Microcontroller Madness series! This month’s workshop will...
View ArticlePass Me Another One of Those Hive76s
Rendered Hive76 Desktop Background/Wallpaper Well as we all know I’m completely infatuated with Blender, the open-source awesome-o 3D modeler, renderer, animator, and general all-around nice program....
View ArticleMaker Collider Event with NextFab Studio: TUESDAY
Option 1) Lasercut, Laser engrave, and LED-light-up your very own Snowflake Join us on TUESDAY, December 20th, 7 pm – Midnight Meet-and-Make, Hive76 and NextFab Studio Members @...
View ArticleInstrument DIY
DIY Scale (and some other fine instruments) Ok, you probably can’t make the baby grand in this picture, and even the metronome is likely to be a serious DIY challenge — but you can definitely make a...
View ArticleLast Call: Introduction to 3D Rendering with Blender
Rendered My Little Pwnies in Blender. Last Call for tickets to this class this weekend. January 28th, 1-6 pm @ Hive76 If you’ve been waiting to get your ticket, now’s the time to do it! Click Here to...
View ArticleFeb 22nd: Meet the Developers of Apostrophe Now!
Apostrophe Now! — based out of Philadelphia and developed by P’unk Ave — is “a content management system designed for maximum flexibility with a minimal learning curve. The interface is ergonomic, all...
View ArticleHive to HOST Bug Jam March 4th
What the heck is a Bug Jam? README Ok, so now what? From Friday March 2nd to Sunday March 4th in IRC at #ubuntu-us-pa on freenode we will be working as a group to help with this event. On Sunday...
View ArticleStanford U Machine Learning Study Group
Standford University is at it again with another round of free (as in beer) courses! This time they’re joined by the likes of Princeton, Penn, and the University of Michigan! Why should you care? Well,...
View ArticleModified MendelMax RepRap Build starting Wednesday
Did you take Peejay’s Intro to Programming with Arduino class? You may have learned that Arduino’s are great for controlling 3D printers such as a RepRap. Well, hot on the heels of our last RepRap...
View ArticleHand-crafted Charlie-Plexed Tile
This 5×6 LED tile is a key component in a secret project that I’m developing (in secret) with some other folks (whose names shall remain a secret). Why be so public about something so secret? Because...
View ArticleHive76 @ Fosscon!!
Whoa! Fosscon is tomorrow and Hive76 is going to be there!! What’s fosscon? From the fosscon crew: Fosscon 2012 is a free and open source software conference, and will include six general-interest...
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