Date/Time: 9 July 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

Here's the video of our hacker jeopardy game. Hopefully, this will help get our team into the Defcon Hacker Jeopardy Tournament.

Prospective contestants need to be planning to go to Defcon, otherwise what's the point of trying out. If you would like to play, drop me an email.

Come on down (oops, wrong game show), toss back a few cold ones and be entertained as we toss out the answers and see who comes up with the right questions.

Date/Time: 4 June 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

Update: NickD will be hosting Hacker Jeopardy. This should guarantee EPIC LULZ for all!

Here's the video of the Bruce's RepRap talk, which everyone agreed was a big success. Major props go to KurtK for saving our asses as last minute fill-in videographer.

Our faithful videographer, Flixis, is now setup with the blip.tv login. So now we shouldn't have to wait for my slacker self to upload the videos every month. Enjoy the show!

Last week, I went and took Che's awesome Quahog and Crossbones image, ran it through Illustrator's trace function and popped out a halfway decent piece of line art. Then I added 'DC401' in American Typewriter and printed out a couple of copies on transparency film. Yesterday, I exposed a screen for an hour, rinsed out the unexposed part and printed up 10 shirts. The shirts are all men's large 50/50 cotton/poly super cheap-o shirts I got at Walgreens a while back for $2 each on which to practice screenprinting.

Of course, I have to keep one for myself, and one goes to Che, since it's his artwork. That leaves 8 shirts up for grabs. Two are super collectible "error prints". In my fine benevolent dictator way, I'll come up with some sort of random and completely unfair way to distribute the shirts. Come to the May meeting to see if you get one.

Bruce Wattendorf is a Rhode Island based RepRap maker. He and his son have working on their RepStrap (because it has non replicated parts) since January 2007. Bruce will be bringing his RepRap in to demo its capabilities and talk about the process of actually building one. For anyone who's dreamed of printing 3D objects, this talk is for you.

Date/Time: 7 May 2008 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

Update: We made it to the Make: blog and there's interest from people who won't be able to make it to the meeting. Fear not! We take video of most of the talks and intend to do so with this one too. Subscribe to the RSS feed and you'll catch the video when it shows up (usually a week or two after the talk itself.)

This month we have KurtK presenting "iHack (and You Can Too!)".

"In this talk I’ll be covering OS X (Leopard) installation on various hardwares, maintaining your installation (so it doesn’t break itself updating), as well as a guide to building your own Hackintosh from the ground up. I’ll also bring copies of install discs to share for anybody interested, however quantities are limited so they will be distributed first-come-first-serve."

Come on down learn first-hand from Kurt how to build yourself a Hackintosh.

Register at OSHEAN to reserve your spot. Looks like there will be free pizza for lunch too.

March 5th marks the start of our new night for DC401 meetings at AS220. From now on we'll be meeting on the First Wednesday of the month. This change will allow us to stick around at AS220 after the meeting and do our eating and drinking there, which should entice more people to stick around for the post talk discussion.

This month we have NickD and TylerW presenting "The Internet is Serious F&*%ing Business". We'll have to wait for the talk to see where the good hack is (bring your ShmooBalls in case one is lacking.) Knowing NickD's presentation style, this is guaranteed to be a laugh riot and should not be missed.

"The Internet is Serious F&*%ing Business will cover the social internet as it stands today. Covering all aspects of the Social Internet trend from businesses built around the Social Internet and Web 2.0 applications to how Social Internet trends have changed our personal internet experience and the way we communicate with people."

Come on down and lulz it up with NickD and TylerW on our new night.