Welcome to a new blog section where we feature the work of our incredibly talented members! Look for a new hack every Tuesday, and learn just what we all get up to at SSD. This week, Skyler Fly-Wilson shared this video of a dancing LED demo he put together using Arduino. It’s super cool, and […]
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Day of the Dead Party 2011 Recap
November 15th, 2011 
lizbaumann
Thanks to all who waded through wicked weather to attend our post-Halloween party on Tuesday evening November 1. We had more types of lights than you can count on 2 hands and more importantly, dozens of people stopping by to see them! Special thanks to John E. for wowing everyone with lasers, fog, and sound-reactive […]
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Tags: boulder hackerspace, hackerspaces, lasers, LEDs, solid state depot 
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November 1: Day of the Dead Party
October 15th, 2011 lizbaumann
On Tuesday November 1 we will interrupt our regularly scheduled meeting for a Day of the Dead party! If you’ve been meaning to check us out anyway (or not, but just love fun Halloween activities), here’s an even better reason. You never know what kind of crazy contraptions a Hackerspace can come up with around […]
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Wearable LEDs Update
March 6th, 2011 admin
Just a quick note on a couple of our wearable technology (WT) projects: Liz’s raincoat and John’s top hat. Raincoat: This was Liz’s first real WT project taken to completion, and there was definitely some “pound to fit, paint to match” involved in order to meet her goal of having it ready in time to […]
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Super Bowl Halftime LED Show
February 11th, 2011 admin
Reposted from Hackerspace member Liz’s blog At halftime during this year’s Super Bowl, Daniel chatted me to ask if I was watching it because there was quite an LED show going on. If you haven’t seen it: Here is a summary of what I could dig up on the technology and some of my personal […]
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