On Wednesday, August 28, the Solid State Depot had crypto and meshnet meetup with lightning talks, general discussion, and installation for Bitmessage and Tahoe-LAFS. Ben Burdette started off the meetup with a presentation on Bitmessage. Bitmessage is a P2P communicationns protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and […]
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Machine Learning Meetup
August 19th, 2013 
Brian Krent
At the machine learning meetup on August 18th, 2013, topics covered introductory basics leading up to basic support vector machines and basic artificial neural networks. Various applications of machine learning were covered, such as beating experts at wine tasting, predicting housing prices, predicting which products from a chip manufacturing process will pass testing, doing optical […]
Raspberry Pi Roadshow
August 14th, 2013 Brian Krent
Rob Bishop, an engineer and evangelist for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, stopped by the Solid State Depot Boulder Hackerspace as part of the Raspberry Pi United States Roadshow! Rob’s talk “Raspberry Pi — One Year On” covered both the origin story of the Raspberry Pi as well as outlining recent developments. The talk presented technical information about the Raspberry […]
Fix-It Clinic with Eco-Cycle
August 11th, 2013 Joel E B
Volunteers of the Solid State Depot Boulder Hackerspace, along with Eco-Cycle, coached and assisted citizens of the Boulder, Colorado area in need of electronic equipment repair as part of the Fix-It Clinic event on Sunday, August 11th. By not only helping fix, but also helping teach and educate by demonstration, the Solid State Depot volunteer […]