This past weekend, about a dozen or so of our members spent part of Sunday afternoon spiffing up the space and enjoying a tasty BBQ. We had a crew working magic in the electronics room (behold the new ‘wall of resistance’), and another group that built a sturdy (and mobile!) base for one of our […]
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Fall Fixin’ Stuff BBQ
October 25th, 2016 
lizbaumann
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Denver Mini Maker Faire 2016 recap in pictures
June 14th, 2016 johnmaushammer
SSD members turned out in force the the mini maker fair held at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the crowd was fantastic. Jim’s Drawbot was a huge draw — one girl adored it and was thrilled when he gave her the drawing it had just made! Terry’s soccer scoring system got the […]
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Boulder Hackerspace’s first ever video game tournament! (Super Smash Bros)
December 3rd, 2014 jonah eskin
Last Weekend on November 15th 2014 the Boulder Hackerspace had its very first video game tournament. The games played were Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Project M and Super Smash Bros. for 3DS. There were 5 events in total, Melee singles, Melee doubles, Project M singles, Project M doubles and Smash 3DS singles. […]
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NoCo Mini Maker Faire 2013
October 14th, 2013 lizbaumann
The first ever Northern Colorado Mini Maker Faire was held Saturday October 5 in Loveland. Around 3,300 people attended and there were 120 maker/ demoer/ exhibiter booths. SSD had a table with a few of our projects, info about our space, and a revolving 2-4 members present and excited to tell passers-by about our space. […]
Bitmessage and Tahoe-LAFS at Crypto and MeshNet Meetup
August 28th, 2013 Brian Krent
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 […]
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 […]
Grand Opening Extravaganza April 27
April 17th, 2013 lizbaumann
We are having an event to celebrate our move to our new space: WHAT: The Solid State Depot Grand Opening WHEN: Saturday April 27, 2013 from 3pm to midnight WHERE: Our new location at 1965 33rd. St. Unit B, Boulder, CO WHY: To celebrate moving into our new space! COST: Free for everyone to attend; […]
Arduino Night @ BHS
January 26th, 2013 dixon
We had Arduino night last Thursday. The big win was all the mentorship happening around the room on Arduino, projects and discussing the how’s and why’s. It was a terrific buzz with a wide range of activity. From simple beginner projects… to “The Midi Mushroom”, a really cool project Chris is working […]
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Open House January 22
January 26th, 2013 dixon
We had a great turnout with still more new faces. Big shout out, we also passed the 100 member mark on our Meetup Group. Great projects continue to kick off! Thanks to Chris and Kenny and all the other new folks who came out. We saw some hardkernel ARM Odroid boards. That was pretty cool, driving […]