That’s right kids there are two Maker Faires this weekend..but only one will have Lab B!
2 Maker Faires to Choose From This Weekend in the Northeast | GeekDad | Wired.com.
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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.
Labortory B gets a write up in Vermont Art Zine..
The Laboratory B crew had a great time Friday and Saturday night at Art Hop. We didn’t really get to leave our show to see all the awesome stuff other people were doing, but playing host is always fun. Bunches of new and old friends dropped by to play with a variety of the pieces we showed. We event got a write up in Vermont Art Zin
…”One of my favorite stops was Laboratory B, a self-described “hacker space” set up at 187 South Winooski. Jesse Krembs who showed us the work on display, says that Laboratory B is a group of tech-interested people who get together on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-8. Most of them have related day jobs (he said he’s at Fairpoint Communications), but they’re all interested in privacy issues and the interesting things that can be made with imagination, microcontrollers, and apps. He said Laboratory B is “not a straight-up art group, but hacking can sometimes look like art.” For example, a piece called Walk Don’t Walk picks up information from cards on your person that aren’t shielded and changes the walk signal. Another piece used “throwies” (a LED light and magnet packet), a metal sheet, and an amplifier to make a species of music when the throwie “…
2600 This Friday!
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.
The warm weather is finally upon us! So we might wander to local roof top or other outdoor location as well!
2600 Friday
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
Soldering Workshop
Dom will be hosting a soldering workshop at Laboratory B!
Are you interested in electronics, technology, and hacking? Laboratory B, Burlington’s hackerspace is hosting a soldering and electronics workshop on April 15th at 2:00pm. Learn to solder the right way and touch up on your circuitry skills in the process. Lab B has much more to offer than just soldering, useful tools and knowledgeable people are there to help you all the way.
If you can think it, together we can build it.Contact Dom for more info [email protected]
2600 Meeting this Friday..possible different location @ Lab B
This Friday is the first of the month. 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.
We might have a little trouble secure the space, if we can’t we’ll have the meeting at Laboratory B. We will put up signs letting you know and make a post here.
Afterwards we will probably head over to Laboratory B our new hacker space just 1.5 blocks away for further hijinks! We’ve made a lot of improvements since we moved in 2 weeks ago!
5-8 is prime dinner, Pizza can be grabbed from downstairs
Hope to see some Vermont Makers there for more Fun.
Friend Friend Everywhere!
Last night was an exciting night at the space! Ken Howell & John Ferguson from Champlain College came for a visit! After some fun discussion it appears that there are a lot more people interested in HackerSpaces, MakerSpaces & FabLabs then originally thought! The Lab B members learned about new a whole group called Vermont Makers, a whole group of people with similar interests! Woot!
Plus we had a visit from a high school student from Bethel and one of his teachers!
Last Friday at are monthly 2600 meeting we had a visit from a bunch of Norwich Students too! Earlier in the day Jesse met up with Andrew and his daughter who are prepping to do some awesome loom hack!
Finally we found a note under the door from Jonathan from Germany! Sorry we missed you! It’s great to have international visitors come to our little lab.
If you’d like to come by and check out the lab, or what not the best way is to email [email protected]. While open times are posted on the best site we haven’t been super hardcore about keeping them..but will now that some many people want to come by!
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Tech@Burlington Meetup — Wed, Feb 8th @ New Moon
Tech@VT Meetup is coming to Burlington on Wedndesday! Come meet entrepreneurs, service providers and investors in the back room of New Moon in Burlington to chat, catch up and exchange ideas. RSVP through the Facebook Event