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Voyage to the ATX Hackerspace in Austin, Texas (Video)
The place is big. It has lots of bats. And the people there not only make things, but play games and just plain hang out. Some are making a TARDIS they hope to take to Burning Man. Others are college student roboteers, working on their entry in a regional IEEE robotics contest. They're cutting, shaping, drilling, soldering, programming, talking, and generally having a great time. Timothy says they're Texas-friendly, too, so go ahead and stop on by if you're in the neighborhood. They're open 24/7, too, so whenever you have an urge to make something, ATX Hackerspace is ready to help you satisfy that urge.
I just moved to Austin and am wanting to start hobbyist robotics, so this post was extremely useful. Thanks.
If you're a member, or it's an Open House. It's a $50/mo fee.
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Im' a programeer, I always program with my pinky sticking out, like any upper society programmer should!
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This could have been a much better video. Roblimo doesn't understand how to gather compelling content. Ughhh!
He talked to the robotics engineer asking him all kinds of questions about stuff nobody is excited to learn about - "How many people are on your team at UT?" "Why doesn't the school let you use their laser cutter?" A better direction would have been to ask the guy how the laser cutter works and how the pieces it was processing would fit into the robot project. That was completely missing.
Also, half the video was about some card game. Less than 1% of this video is about 'hacking' anything and 99.9% is about the social aspects of the ATX Hackerspace. This is a missed opportunity for Slashdot to create relevant content.
If you are going to ask visitors to spend 11 minutes of their lives looking at your video, you better make it worth it. This isn't.
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Or this software company that calls itself Sound Foundry selling a digital audio editor product called Sound Forge. Talk about mixing metaphors. A foundry involves a casting process where you pour liquid metal. A forge is a kind of machining process where you take in some cases cold metal or in other cases metal heated to lower its yield strength, and you pound on it with hammers or with a machine. So foundry, forge, which is it?
Hackerspace. Didn't that used to be called a "machine shop"? This name is so "Whole Foods", which is a kind of hippie-chic deal for people with tons of money imitation of a coop store.
People just use certain chemicals instead of a Tardis.
Or maybe that is the idea - use certain chemicals inside the Tardis?
Then go find your own. I've been meaning to find out more about them (had reasons why I couldn't so far) and this got me to click the link and look at their map. And now I know that they're very near where I work. I was expecting them to be on the south side of town or something like that. (going between north and south Austin can take a while even with good traffic, and Austin traffic usually sucks)
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There's also an TX/RX Hackerspace in Houston. They've got a bunch of fab equipment, an electron microscope, and a bunch of electrical engineering gear.
Both these places have open houses (go in and say "Howdy;)"), and grats to the folks from there bringing their freaky deaky time machine home.
(Pedantic: You can either say ATX Hackerspace, Hackerspace in Austin TX, or ATX (Austin TX) Hackerspace)
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Fortunately it crashed the Flash plugin in my browser, so no flash
I've got better things to do tonight than die.
No, there is definitely welding, as well as dozens of other things that were not mentioned in the video.
...texas
You obviously don't understand. Except for geography, Austin is not part of Texas. Austin is exceedingly liberal, gay-friendly, pro-abortion, supports evolution, etc. etc. Hell, one of the local public parks has a clothing-optional beach. Most residents vehemently hate the idiot governor and legislature, which retaliates by jerrymandering to try to keep Austin from having ANY representation in Congress. (The current redistricting shows something like six pseudopods stretching for hundreds of miles from all directions to ensure that each sixth of Austin gets diluted by 5/6 of fundamentalist tea-party types.) To my knowledge, Travis County (Austin) hasn't voted for a Republican at any level in the last twenty years.
The net result is that if you don't leave Travis County, you can ignore the stupidity of the rest of Texas and pretend you are in your own state.
-- John Dierdorf, Austin TX