Wednesday, November 24, 2010

pinner:sd8psrc matt$ avrdude -c stk500hvsp -p t85 -P /dev/cu.usbserial-FTCAKAH8 -U flash:w:sd8p_hr.hex:a

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.05s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e930b
avrdude: NOTE: FLASH memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: reading input file "sd8p_hr.hex"
avrdude: input file sd8p_hr.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: ERROR: address 0x820003 out of range at line 406 of sd8p_hr.hex
avrdude: write to file 'sd8p_hr.hex' failed

avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK

avrdude done. Thank you.

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Seattle HackerSpaces

I'm on a trip in Seattle for friends, family, Halloween, and to checkout some local hackerspaces.

Coming from LA where we have just a handful I was excited to see the hackerspaces.org listing 7 in Seattle. The Los Angeles spaces vary immensely and I'm most curious to see how the spaces in Seattle differ.

My first pass of comparison is of course web-based.

* 911 Media Arts Center: "making media matters"
* Hackerbot Labs: "Like prom night for your warranty" (and many many more)
* Hazard Factory: "Flaming tetherball: not just a state of mind, it's this scar right here."
Fun fun fun huge industrial art space. lots of welding and risky projects
* Jigsaw Renaissance: "At any moment we are free to act toward the future we desire." --Heinz von Foerster
* Metrix Create:Space: "$1 coffee, fast free Internet, open until midnight"
* Saturday House
looked more or less like a floating hacker community without a space. there were several good links and resources from their site which led to some great current events listings.
* Weird Science Salon
started in 1984 as local tesla-coilers meeting. they seems to be still meeting regularly in a very cool museum nearby Metrix. Also, they've got write-up of soem dangerous experiments.


take aways thus far:
slogans are great. rotating slogans are better
logos, you ain't a hackerspace without one.
calendar and flickr stream work nicely together to show activity and followthrough