You’re not ? Well check us out here. Furthermore we’re doing some google+ stuff too.

Oh and here’s some of the stuff you’ve been missing!

GPS speedo, keepon, old parts, more old parts, dip pic32, and first glimpse at the cake o tron!

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Last weekend we displayed our projects at Robot Fest 2011. In our photos, you may notice a few new things on display. This is because in 2010 Robot Fest also became Mid Atlantic Mini Maker Faire. Unfortunately we spent most of the day behind our table and we were not able to capture everything at the event. If you have photos of the event to share with us please e-mail them to info@harfordhackerspace.org

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I took my son to the Combat Robots Workshop at the National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, MD. The workshop was hosted by the PennBots Robot Club of Pennsylvania. The rules of the game were demonstrated to us at the arena and then it was our turn. For the low price of $25 we were given an RC toy to hack and a bunch of parts to pick through.  The biggest challenge was reducing the weight of the robot to the Ant Class (1lb).  The other classes were Flea (150 grams) and Beetle (3lbs).

I have to say that my 7 year old son made me very proud today when he cleanly pushed another bot into the pits while it was being controlled by an adult.  See him in action in the video below.  After the competition, we stuck all the robots into the arena for one last melee. Since there were only two frequencies being used it made for a really interesting match.

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Several Harford Hackerspace members spent the day at the Lochraven Skeet and Trap range shooting clay pigeons. If you are interested in the sport you should have a look at SCSkeet.com beginner tutorial and watch the instructional video below. There is a little bit more to the game of skeet than just aiming and shooting.

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We will be at the second annual Techno Swap Fest. Come buy our junk!

Feb 19, 2011  -  9am to 2pm

National Electronics Museum
1745 West Nursery Road
Linthicum Hts, MD 21090-2906

More Info…
https://sites.google.com/site/technoswapfest2/

We hosted our first CNC/Makerbot User Group meeting. A special thanks goes out to Brian Dolge for organizing the event and making it a success. We had a great turnout with about 20+ people in attendance. Marty McGuire demonstrated his Makerbot by drawing on Post-Its with a Sharpie. Harford Hackerspace demonstrated their CNC Milling machine by cutting out a wooden Ninja star. Check out the images below.

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Just wanted to let everyone know we are participating in the Baltimore  Hackathon.  You can check it out here .

Also this weekend while we are working on the project, our webcam is live.  You can view that here.

I wanted to just say thank you to Jeff Del Papa @ the-nerds for stopping by the space last night and sharing his Junkyard Wars experiences with us. Jeff and his team have been featured on a few episodes in the US and UK.  It was very cool to be able to ask Jeff questions about what happened behind the scenes.

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A little late posting this, but a few of us went to the NYC Maker Fair.  I personally had a blast and wanted to share some pictures with those of you who missed it.

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We would like to thank Pete Koziar, author of Dauntless Homecoming, for visiting our hackerspace and teaching us how to grind our own mirrors.

We’ll post video of the course soon…

Thanks Pete!