Hackaday is headed to Boston this week. Meet up with us on Thursday at 6pm to show off your projects and meet other hackers in the area. Admission is free, just tell us you’re coming.
We’re hosting a Hackaday meetup at Artisan’s Asylum hackerspace. That name should sound familiar. This is the group that decided to throw down the robot gauntlet with Japan. We can’t wait to see what that’s all about first hand!
While in town we’ll also be stopping by the MIT Media Lab, a legendary den of cutting edge research that springs forth wave after wave of awesome inspiration. If you know of any projects going on there that we just shouldn’t miss please let us know below. We’re also looking for suggestions of other places we should check out while in town.
Oh man, I was just there for the Engadget.com event. If I would’ve known how lame it was going to be I would of went to this one instead.
So, it’s not quite up the hackaday alley but it’s (imao) really fuckin cool, so I’ll mention it:
If you’re in Boston and have the time, the coolest least-known thing there is a stained glass globe the size of a big atrium you walk through the middle of on a bridge. It’s at the Christian Science mother church on Mass Ave between Boylston St and Symphony Hall – if you’re over near MIT it’s a quick trip on the #1 bus. wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapparium
(you can do a tour of the maparium without any prosletyzing from the Christian Science folks.)
I’ll see your mapparium, and raise you the MIT museum:
http://web.mit.edu/museum/
Oh, and for “cool and little known”, try the Museum of Bad art:
http://www.museumofbadart.org/
(Very few places are as entertaining as MOBA.:-)
Nice, Mapparium and the MIT museum both sound pretty awesome. Thanks!
If you’re going to the MIT area, be sure to have dinner at Mary Chung’s (just down the street from the museum). The suan la chow show appetizer is particularly good, and isn’t served any where else (that I can find).
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/409721
(Smacks lips and rubs hands excitedly just thinking about it.)
Don’t forget the Boston Museum of Science, if for no other reason than to see the world’s largest Tesla Coil!
http://www.mos.org/
I’ve never been to the Artisan’s Asylum before. This sounds like a good excuse to go check it out!
We have regularly scheduled tours most days at 2pm!
I’d like to go but realistically I’d only bother making the trip from northern New Hampshire if I knew for sure that Megabot was going to be on site.
Hello from a fellow NH dweller.
Southern New Hampshire here. Maybe we can plan an event at Make-It labs (Nashua, NH) sometime?
It won’t be. MegaBots moved out to California – the better to wade across the ocean and fight Kaiju – and Stompy the Giant Hexapod has outgrown (literally! It’s too big!) the space available at Artisan’s and got it’s own warehouse space.
That said, there’s *plenty* of cool stuff going on at Artisan’s to warrant a trip down.
Hellyeah, I was waiting for a Boston area meetup, come do Worcester MA next at Technocopia!
I’ve never been to Boston in the Fall!
um its the summer
Yeah but he has never been in the fall… didn’t you read what he said?
If you like climbing, Brooklyn Boulders is a cool space and right next to Artisan’s. There is also Green Town Labs which is an energy efficiency based co-working space right next to Artisan’s that you should check out.
Ooooh, also there is a brewery (Aeronaut) right next to Artisan’s you should go to (if you like beer). It is a cool space and good beer.
i really want to go to this but i think im working… sadface
Hey,
You should visit Ramesh Raskar’s Lab at MIT media lab. The Camera culture group. You should meet Anshuman Das and Rohan Puri. They are doing some great work with India, on low cost health care diagnostic devices and building smart cities.
Vaibhav Chhabra
Maker’s Asylum
Boston was incorporated in 1630, not 1639. All the signs say 1630. How’d you guys screw up the graphic?
Apparently a stock photo onto which various town names are photoshopped, many examples in TinEye.