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Last 2600 Meeting before TEOTWAWKI

Be there, be square, 2600 meeting this Friday at the usual space 5-8 (though we usually get there about 6). This is the last meeting of the year AKA TEOTWAWKI. 

First of the month, That’s this Friday. It’s 2600 time! Meeting will be at the usual place the Game Lounge at 178 Main Street in Burlington Vermont from 5 (6ish)-8. It’s on the third floor, so just keep going up. There will be signs to point the way.

Exciting news about Laboratory B at this meeting, plus pre-holiday fun and hijinks!

See you there.

2600; Downtown tommorow!

First of the month, That’s this Friday. It’s 2600 time! Meeting will be at the usual place the Game Lounge at 178 Main Street in Burlington Vermont from 5-8. It’s on the third floor, so just keep going up. There will be signs to point the way.

Afterwards we will probably head over to Laboratory B!  1.5 blocks away for further hijinks!

5-8 is prime dinner time, Pizza can be grabbed from downstairs.

Champlain Maker Faire Wrap Up!

The Laboratory B crew had a great time at Champlain Valley Maker Faire. It was a gleeful marathon of teaching kids & adults to solder using the Sparkfun kits. Labortory B would like to thank in short order.

To all the folks that stopped by the soldering station and wanted to come by the Lab; Open hours are 5:00 pm to 8 pm Tuesday and Thursday. Email [email protected] or call us at 802.540.2524. We would love to meet with you where it is warm & dry.

Finally: It’s the first of the month, so that means it’s 2600 time on Friday! Meeting will be at the usual place the Game Lounge at 178 Main Street in Burlington Vermont from 5-8. It’s on the third floor, so just keep going up. There will be signs to point the way.

Champlain Valley Maker Faire is coming!

Laboratory B will have a booth at the Champlain Valley Maker Faire, the Faire is Saturday  September 29th from 10-7 at the Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. At the booth we’ll teach young and old how to solder! We’ll have some awesome kits from SparkFun. You should buy tickets now to make sure you can get into the Faire.

Do you think having a Maker Faire in Vermont is cool! If so print out some posters and join the street team! Let people know!

Free Press Covers Art Hop & Lab B

Here is what The Burlington Free Press has to say about Laboratory B

From the iPad to the printed page

Funkiness gives way to what might well be a scene from a Frankenstein movie at Laboratory B, where Alec Brecher and about a dozen others tinker with computer security information research. The location, which has been dubbed a “secure bunker,” is inside in the freezer at the back of the old Hood Plant on south Winooski Avenue.

“It’s windowless and airless,” he said, “but no longer freezing.”

Members of the non-profit are hackers generally devoted to computerprogramming. At the Hop, their project is called “Who’s Got your Digital Booty?” According to Brecher, this means “an ad hoc collaboration that will reflect the trail of information leakage.”

In layman’s terms, he said, “visitors who bring their devices can opt into being hacked. We’ll encourage them to send Tweets or email messages. There’ll be network snooping tools, so they can visualize whatever communication is coming across.”

In techno-challenged language, maybe the Frankenstein monster of the 21st century looks like code instead of a lurching giant with plugs coming out of his neck.

 Full Article Here