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Join today’s new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could. Hack This is your glorious, full-color passport to the world of hackerspaces: your invitation to share knowledge, master tools, work together, build amazing stuff–and have a flat-out blast doing it.   Twin Cities Maker co-founder John Baichtal explains it all: what hackerspaces are, how they work, who runs them, what they’re building—and how you can join (or start!) one. Next, he walks you through 24 of today’s best hackerspace projects…everything from robotic grilled-cheese sandwich-makers to devices that make music with zaps of electricity. Every project’s packed with color photos, explanations, lists of resources and tools, and instructions for getting started on your own similar project so you can DIY!   JUST SOME OF THE PROJECTS YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT INCLUDE… • Kung-fu fighting robots • Home-brewed Geiger counter • TransAtlantic balloon • Twitter-monitoring Christmas tree • Sandwich-making robot • Interactive Space Invaders mural • CNC mill that carves designs into wood, plastic and metal • Telepresence robot that runs an Internet classroom • Toy cars that are ridden by people • Bronze-melting blast furnace • Laptop-controlled robot fashioned from a wheelchair • DIY book scanner   JOHN BAICHTAL is a founding member of Twin Cities Maker, a hackerspace organization that has been collaborating for almost two years. Based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, Twin  ities Maker has its own rented warehouse complete with a welding station, woodshop, classroom, and ham radio transmitter. Baichtal has written dozens of articles, including pieces for AKE, the D&D publication Kobold Quarterly, and 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He has contributed to Wired.com’s GeekDad blog for four years and blogged at Make: Online for two, publishing more than 1,500 posts during that time. He is now writing a book about Lego.  

Table of Contents:
Foreword  1 Introduction: The Bleeding Edge of the DIY Movement  3     It’s All About the Community  3     Hackerspace U  5     The First Wave of Hackerspaces  7     Hackers on a Plane  8     The First Hackers  9     Hackers and Crime  10     Pranks  11     A Love of Community  12 Project 1: Karate Champ Game  15     Hackerspace Profile: The Hack Factory  16     The Hack Factory Space Details  16     The Project  17 Project 2: Sudo Make Me a Sandwich Robot  29     Hackerspace Profile: NYC Resistor  30     Space Details  30     The Project  31     Basic Building Steps  36     Further Reading  37 Project 3: Networked Geiger Counter  39     Hackerspace Profile: Tokyo Hackerspace  40     Tokyo Hackerspace Details  40     The Project  41     Further Reading  48 Project 4: Glass Block LED Matrix  49     Hackerspace Profile: Hive13  50     Space Details  50     The Project  51 Project 5: Bronze-Melting Blast Furnace  57     Hackerspace Profile: Quad City Co-Lab  58     The Project  59 Project 6: Milkymist VJ Console  65     Hackerspace Profile: /tmp/lab  66     Space Details  66     The Project  67     Further Reading  74 Project 7: White Star Trans-Atlantic Balloon  75     Hackerspace Profile: LVL1  76     Space Details  76     The Project  77     Further Reading  87 Project 8: Twitter-Monitoring Christmas Tree  89     Hackerspace Profile: Alpha One Labs  90     Space Details  91     The Project  91 Project 9: Live Wire Go Game  99     Hackerspace Profile: BrmLab (Hackerspace Prague)  100     Notable Equipment  100     Space Details  100     The Project  102 Project 10: Hack Signal  109     Hackerspace Profile: Hack Pittsburgh  110     Space Details  110     The Project  111 Proeject 11: TARDIS Photobooth  119     Hackerspace Profile: Pumping Station: One  120     Space Details  121     The Project  121 Project 12: Interactive Space Invaders Mural  129     Hackerspace Profile: Metalab  130     Space Details  130     The Project  131     Further Reading  138 Project 13: Telepresence Robot  139     Hackerspace Profile: XinCheJian  140     Space Details  140     The Project  141     Further Reading and Viewing  149 Project 14: The Polyplasmic Arcophone  ..151     Hackerspace Profile: The Perth Artifactory  152     The Project  153 Project 15: DIY CNC Router  159     Hackerspace Profile: Harford Hackerspace  160     Space Details  161     The Project  161     Building the Model  166     Converting the Model to Toolpaths  166     Further Reading  168 Project 16: LED Matrix Gaming System  169     Hackerspace Profile: Forsknings-avdelningen  170     Space Details  170     The Project  171     Additional Resources  178 Project 17: MAME Cabinet  179     Hackerspace Profile: theTransistor  180     Space Details  180     The Project  182 Project 18: Book Scanner  189     Hackerspace Profile: Ace Monster Toys  190     Space Details  190     The Project  191     Further Reading  198 Project 19: OpenDuino  199     Hackerspace Profile: syn2cat  200     Space Details  200     The Project  202     Further Reading  208 Project 20: Project-a-Sketch  209     Hackerspace Profile: HAC:Manchester  210     Space Details  210     The Project  211 Porject 21: Power Racing Car  217     Hackerspace Profile: Milwaukee Makerspace  218     Space Details  218     The Project  219 Project 22: Party Land Pinball Game  227     Hackerspace Profile: Garoa Hacker Clube  228     Space Details  228     The Project  229     Further Reading  234 Project 23: Store Front Music  235     Hackerspace Profile: Collaborative Research Association of Social     Hacktivity  236     Notable Equipment  236     Space Details  236     The Project  238     Further Reading  245 Project 24: Wheelchair Robot  247     Hackerspace Profile: Noisebridge  248     Space Details  248     The Project  250     Conway’s Game of Life  255     Additional Resources  257 Do It Yourself  259     Spread the Word  260     Decide on an Organization Type  261     Name Your Group  262     Hold Meetings  263     Create Bylaws and Rules  264     Choose Leaders  265     Raise Money 266     Find a Space  268     Equip the Space  270     Make Improvements  273     Keep It Clean  273     Secure the Space  274     Be Safe  274     Resolve Conflicts  275     Share Everything  275     Recruit New Members  .276     Teach Classes  277     Help the Community  277     Now What?  278 Hackerspeak  281  

About the Author :
John Baichtal is the founding member of Twin Cities Maker, a hackerspace organization that has been collaborating for almost two years. Twin Cities Maker has its own rented warehouse, the Hack Factory, complete with a welding station, a woodshop, a classroom, and an electronics area. John is currently writing The Cult of Lego, a book about adult Lego builders for No Starch Press. He has written dozens of articles for print, including pieces for MAKE Magazine, Kobold Quarterly (a D&D magazine), and 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He has blogged for Wired.com (GeekDad blog) for four years and Make: Online for a year, with more than 1,000 posts published during that time.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780789741110
  • Publisher: Que
  • Publisher Imprint: Que
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0789741113
  • Publisher Date: 13 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Sub Title: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement


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