Welcome to the HacDC Wiki: Difference between revisions

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Welcome to HacDC. We are a hacker space located in Washington, DC. HacDC members improve the world by creatively rethinking technology. We break, build, and occasionally abuse technology in the pursuit of greater knowledge about how it works and repurposing it to build new things. Our shop is located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the District of Columbia.

If you're new here, you should start by looking at our public web site at hacdc.org. Our Wiki is mostly for internal organization, but you're welcome to look through to get a sense of what we work on (and consider joining yourself!). We invite you to subscribe to our Blabber public discussion mailing list.

Cool Stuff Going On Right Now

Cambridge Stereoscan 200 Scanning Electron Microscope We're restoring an electron microscope. [1]
3D Printing - Lulzbot Mini, 3d systems cube, rostock max v2, and a prusa up and running in the space
Microcontroller Mondays -- BYO project to work on, get help on, or show off...or just come to check us out! ...usually from 7:30pm on.
Amateur radio Ham Radio -- make stuff, get your license, QSO, test, tinker, learn,...
3D Thursdays -- 3-D printing enthusiasts are on hand and we have many working and workable printers of various types ...usually from 6:00pm on.)
Web Scraping Fridays (every second friday) -- Use Wget/CURL + bash/SH + sed to turn websites into piles of files/XML/SED.

Category:Projects

Where our projects collaborate and document their research and progress. They are generally classified as:

Records

Entries relating to the space including layout and events and classes we hold

Events

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This calendar pulls events from our official Meetup calendar. Also, see webcal://www.meetup.com/hac-dc/events/ical/ for an ics feed to use with your favorite calendaring software.

Past Cool Stuff That Will Happen Again

LightningTalks
HacDC Summer School This aspires to be a yearly beginner-level workshop series giving attendees an introduction to physical computing. Topics for 2013 included integrated circuits kit-soldering, Arduino programming, and working with Processing.org (full description). A more integrated curriculum is being planned to roll-in Intro to Electronics, Intro to Programming, AVR programming, IoT workshops, and more...
"Schemers" a Biweekly SICP study group meeting on alternate Tuesdays
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
Intro to Visuals for Programmers
Electron Tube Class
Max/MSP Workshop
Quantified Self
Intro to Programming
AVR Microcontroller Class 2011
Great Global Hackerspace Challenge
Linux Class
Bike Maintenance Class
HacDC Spaceblimp 5
Robotics Class 2011

Category:Community

Pages on people in our community :

Category:Policy

Our Policy Manual is divided into the following subcategories:

Extra stuff, buried by wiki cleanup.

Category:Obsolete

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