Hackaday Meetups

get ready to meetup this week hackers! we’re meeting up all of june and then starting in july, bi-weekly.

Philadelphia, PA, USA: (vince)
wheredrexel field at 34th and Chestnut sts. just look for me with gizmos and hacking stuff.
when: friday, june 24th –  7:30pm EST.  don’t be tardy
what to expect: we’ll be talking about hackaday and defcon and coverage there. it’s coming up so we wanna talk about it. we’ll see how progress is going with the CVS camcorder and we’ll also be discussing about wi-fi, the sony AIBO and how you can program it, applications, and social engineering. it should be a great time. bring your laptops and digital cameras and/or video cameras. it’ll be inside so it should be cool, crisp, and full of fun. esp. with wi-fi. brandon, feel free to bring your linksys router.
rules: not many except i expect all of you who show up to be polite, kind, friendly, and to introduce yourselves. i will not tolerate any kind of rudeness/offensiveness/hate. we’ll tie you down and make you become the next goatse.
who to contact: vince via e-mail

Lincoln, NE, USA
: (eliot)
where: The Coffeehouse.
when: thursday next week, 30th.
what to expect: Eliot says, “I’m pushing this back hoping to get a better response. If you didn’t make it last time make sure you contact me to let me know when a good day/time to meet would be. We’re a smaller group so we can be pretty flexible. Be prepared to discuss some projects you’d like to see.”
who to contact: eliot via e-mail

Roanoke, VA, USA:
where: the coffee shop “De Espresso”located at the corner of jefferson and church street in downtown roanoke. Here is the google map link.
when: friday, june 24th – 3:30pm EST
what to expect: plan to discuss projects past and present (hopefully
the cvs camcorder hack). Also, since most of the people i have talked to
are case modders, i have two old dells that i plan to donate to some sort
of hack like the PVR in an old VCR

53 thoughts on “Hackaday Meetups

  1. Not to be a “re-poster”, but A few friends of mine as well as a couple cool hackaday users have started an irc channel for those of us who want to talk, hang out, share ideas, and ask others hacking related stuff….

    #hackaday on the EFNET network

    If you decided to come join us, hang out for a little while, tons of people joined last post, but promptly left dude to a smaller user list. I think if we all stay for a few days we could get a pretty good group of hardware hackers together.

    Later,
    Tired. (austin, tx)

  2. I’d like to say that, so far, there has been a suprising lack of interest in the Boston area. So far only a couple people have contacted me with suggestions/ideas regarding a local meeting. If you are from the area, please email me @ byronbowermangmailcom, or for better results, I’m on AIM almost around the clock; my SN is bmfivek.

  3. Mike, I do think one of these would be interesting, but the we’d just have to find a good central location. I’m located in South OC, how about yourself? And, I was thinking maybe the ferris wheel at the spectrum might be a good place to start, and have it during the day even, so it isn’t packed like normal. Just a suggestion

  4. i’d love to come to boston, but i’m thinking everyone should post these types of meetings atleast one week in advance…. there a great thing to do and have weekly… but you can’t notify people a day or two in advance… thats great for kids on college breaks who don’t have jobs – however it’s tough for people who have lots of things to do. I could easily make it nearly anytime of the week, i just need more than two days notice… preferably a week…

  5. I assure you the channel is alive and active:

    #hackaday on efnet

    if your ‘banned’, try a different efnet server, as there might be some problem.
    The ban list is empty.

    My nick is Tired2, pm me if you cant join, i’ll invite you.

  6. Still looking for potentials in the Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina

    (Hendersonville would be the spot, so far we have a few responses)

    sykosoft @ sykosoft.com
    Michael

  7. I’m thinking of going to the roanoke,va meeting. What are you all looking for? I’m starting to get into 802.11 ant building (I mean really just starting) and I’m mod’ing a wifi card that I havn’t seen around on the net yet. posted pics on my board a bit ago, still need to go to radio supply for the connections.

    I was wandering if it was cool for me to come around, if I had no idea about the cvs cam hack(I will read up on it).

  8. I really think that asking for at least a week’s notice for a (bi)weekly meeting is just a little much. I understand that one day is short notice, and if you can’t make it because of a prior engagement, that’s ok. Since only a few of you even spoke up before I posted a time & place, Sharon and I decided to just pick somewhere easy to find.Those of you who did email me earlier this week had a pretty good idea that the meeting would be Thursday, downtown, around 7:30. We’ll be there. We hope you’ll be there. If you can’t make it but want to be a part of the next meeting please email me: byron.bowerman@gmail.com. I’d really like to meet up once a month, during the week. As far as exact time/location, make some suggestions.

  9. Personally, I think that all of the meet-up info should be in a different section of the site, rather than main-page posts. Most likely there’s a significant number of people who just want to read the hacks and check out the links. But that’s just an opinion. Carry on!

  10. So little warning on the boston one is the problem. I would go but I’m still at work! The ride(on a bike) from waltham to faniel hall is a hour long affair. People should put thier heads together and plan one a month or so in advance.

  11. Hey, me (I’m 16), my dad, and a few friends would love to go to a meetup in Marietta, GA. I live 15 minutes away from the Marietta Square, if you know where that is. I can also help out by bringing food/drinks/whatever if need be..

    would be kinda cool to see who all shows up.

    shoot me an email if anything formulates.

  12. Marietta Meetup SUnday June 26th

    time meet in front starting at 6:45…

    Location: Mellow Mushroom…. Or Local Residance… Depending on the
    wifi issues….

    Google Map of Mellow Mushroom….
    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Shallowford+and+Truckum+30066&spn=0.007714,0.010675&t=k&hl=en

    agenda
    on the agenda for the marietta meetup will be social enginerring…
    the Cobb Power TO learn thing aka (ibooks for the kids)… hopefully
    some wardriving intros.. xbox modding…. and anything else fun….
    and hacky….

  13. There was actually some talk of that at the Boston meet. One of the other gus and me sell at the flea sometimes and other times we buy.

    I’m all for going there, if everone else wants to get up that early. Shall we meet at TKT’s front door at 15 mins before the gate opens?

    TKT = TransKaryotic Technologies or something equally bizzare, on Albany st, across the street from the flea. Directions on flyer linked in post 40.

  14. So vince – as a few gentlemen were discussing – do we get hospital pics? no other excuse! ;-)

    It was interesting talkingt to everyone, and the nintendroid is awesome.

  15. We weren’t tardy, Vince.. guess who was! Go on, guess.. :)

    (Thanks to Mir who showed off his ubuntu linux laptop.. just finished downloading it!)

    Even tho Vince didn’t come, it was still interesting meeting up with similarly minded people.. so I’m only partially disappointed..

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