For the last few months, I’ve prepared free vegan food for Hacklab on Tuesdays: Eggplant bhartas, spring rolls, tofu in spicy peanut sauce, boc choy in garlic sauce, curries…

Thai Red Curry, Conconut Rice, and Regular Rice (Feb 12, 2013)

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Two weeks ago hacklab was able to host students from the Linden School, a local all-girls school.

Soldering blinkies

It was super awesome. They:

• designed 3D objects in class, which we 3D printed for them in advance
• soldered simple blinkies
• saw 3D printers in action
• saw hacklab’s different tools
• learned how to pick locks (some)
• used hacklab’s laser cutter (some)

Afterwards, some of the students described us as the best field trip they’ve ever gone on. More pictures follow!

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A while back in 2012 we had a guest drop in to the space on an open to the public night.
Let me remind all of our readers that every Tuesday evening approx at 6pm, the space
is open to the public to drop by, explore, create, collaborate, and geek out.
Our guest did just that. Utilizing one of our work spaces and a soldering station,
he got down to work and demonstrated a short time later his project.

Pulse of the lab.

Hacklab the movie Exclusive still preview.

Todays post was originally suppose to be a comic strip that ended upon a past internet Meme which has recently been gracing the lab, specifically the LED sign.                                                               The Meme in question is the video of Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up.  The LED sign just cant handle the current video this internet favourite, but I have high hopes for the video/animation currently in use with some more tweaking and editing it could be fully working in no time.                                         So instead of my intended comic I am present everyone with a mashup between a make your own caption, and what I am calling Hacklab the movie.

Long exposure Photo taken over 30 seconds, as the laser etched the scroll work into the wood.

Click more to see the additional 6 photos and 2 time lapse GIF’s of the Singularity Chess Build.

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Seasons Greetings

Quin recently stopped by Hacklab and collaborated with a member to have her holiday card design cut. In this photo Quin is holding one of her freshly cut cards.

Close up of the Laser cut greeting card.

The Hacklab Elves are hard at work over the last few weeks. I care to share some of the festive spirit, as well as the ticks and treats.

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Hacklab.to in partnership with Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology Presents:

Rob Bishop – Raspberry Pi: Past, Present, and Future
Rob Bishop, one of the earliest engineers involved with the development of the Raspberry Pi, will be delivering a talk on the educational mission and history behind the Raspberry Pi Foundation as well as technical overview of the Raspberry Pi. He’ll cover the motivation behind the creation of the Raspberry Pi and how they want to help deliver better computing education to the classroom through creation of cheap, open computing devices.

What: A presentation by Rob Bishop of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Demo Room of projects.
When: December 3rd, 7:00 PM
Where: SEQ Building, Seneca@York, 70 The Pond Road, Toronto – Room: 1206
Details: CDOT: Raspberry_Pi_Hackspace_Tour_Toronto

If you have a Raspberry Pi project and would like to be included in the Demo Room, please contact scott@ss.org

Welcome bot. Truth.

This weeks post is of Quirky moments that just have not fit in any other posts in the past.
Up, Down, Strange, Charm, Truth, and Beauty.

Strange

Robo baby Arduino. It is still crawling at this time but with work it will be on its feet and walking.

Beauty

Musical moments in the lab.

Truth

Taking a break and reading Make Magazine and testing out the classic Red & Blue 3D article.

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Hacklab was featured on the InnerSPACE show last week, check out the awesome 3.5 minute video they made!