mike.perez

First Saturday Openhack, June 4, 2004

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Jun 032011
 

The OpenHack is where we welcome all non-members to come join in the
fun. Here’s what what got in store this week at the openhack. If you
have something you want to work on or discuss, reply to this post or
just come down to the shop during the OpenHack.

Saturday June 4, 2011

[100-130]
meet and greet

[130-600pm]
RepRap Prusa 3D printer, Z-axis troubleshooting.

Video Game development on the ScriptBlocks game,
http://scriptblocks.blogspot.com/

PCB design for a soldering class we plan to offer later this year.

As always this is a loose schedule and we usually stay past 6pm. Hope
to see lots of new faces there!

 Posted by mike.perez on June 3, 2011  Tagged with:

Wiki "escaped quotes" bug fixed

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Jun 012011
 

Hi all,

I fixed a couple things with our dokuwiki installation.

We're using keeyai authentication to integrate with wordpress but it has a problem with wordpress magic quotes. From comments on keeyai's site I could see others were having the same problem. WordPress was applying a filter with magic quotes to escape single and double quotes in get, post, and cookie values. So everytime you saved edits to a wiki page, quotes were being escaped and saved as such in the dokuwiki text-based datastore. From the comments on keeyai's site, I read that the fix is to only apply the magic quotes if the dokuwiki cookie is not present in the request. So I did that in the wordpress files. It will need to be re-applied whenever we update wordpress. I should just make our own repo of wordpress source code so we can manage these changes properly (we've also got a wordpress plugin that we've been slowly collecting our wordpress tweeks in). Maybe I'll do that sometime next week.

Additionally, I removed the CAPTCHA requirement for logged in users on the wiki. So you shouldn't have to enter one everytime you edit a page anymore. As always, the pages are public but you must be logged to edit pages.

http://10bitworks.com/wiki

 Posted by mike.perez on June 1, 2011

Hackerspaces and Collaborative Consumption

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May 282011
 

Over the past year or so i've tried to make an effort to reduce my spending and live a simple lifestyle. I haven't used my credit card(s) in over 4 years. Usually the urge to buy and consume does win out in the end but at least if i do buy something i make sure it is multi-purpose and will not be a one-and-done use. Over these past few years i've read many articles and books and have used them as guides or motivation to use creation to satisfy my needs and forsake (most) of my wants. I try to buy the same minimal groceries and make different meals out of them and netflix helped me along time ago to learn to live without every DVD in existence. Before the hackerspace i had joined a primitive skills group taught by sam coffman here in SATX and still am active in it, learning about the old ways of doing things and getting in a bit of exercise in the process. But now the hackerspace is, for me, that modern counterpart to doing more with less and gaining access to rather than owning all the wonderful, although cluttery, things the hackerspace offers.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/08/30/7-ways-to-have-more-by-owning-less/

 Posted by mike.perez on May 28, 2011

Stamp out hunger day OpenHack May 14, 2011

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May 132011
 

This Saturday is Stamp Out Hunger day. You may have received a grocery
bag in your mailbox this week. Fill it with food and leave for your
mailman on Saturday morning. Also, we’ve made some calls and
10BitWorks should be getting a mailbox of our own soon, yay!

More info on Stamp Out Hunger Day in Bexar County
[http://www.nowcastsa.com/blogs/safoodbank/san-antonio-letter-carriers-help-stamp-out-hunger-nationwide-food-drive]

The OpenHack is where we welcome all those curious to come join in the
fun. Here’s what some members will be working on this week at the
openhack. If you have something you want to work on or discuss, leave
a note in the comments below or just come down to the “works”.

Saturday May 14, 2011

[100-130]
meet and greet

[130-600pm]
Continue with the RepRap Prusa build (its shaping up great!)

As always this is a loose schedule and we usually stay past 6pm. See
you guys there!

 Posted by mike.perez on May 13, 2011

women in engineering/science

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May 132011
 

Reminder, next week, May 21st, The Girl Scouts of San Antonio’s FRC
team, Kobayashi Maru, will be down at 10BitWorks to present their
robot. [http://frcteam3529.org/]

There were a couple of internet pieces this past week that go along
nicely with this reminder:

Zombie Marie Curie
http://xkcd.com/896/

Girl Scouts create prosthetic hand device
http://news.cnet.com/girl-scouts-create-prosthetic-hand-device/8301-17938_105-20058749-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&tag=nl.e703

 Posted by mike.perez on May 13, 2011

T-shirts for sale!

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May 112011
 

based on Greg’s logo, our first shirt is for sale on cafepress!

http://cafepress.com/10bitworks

anyone familiar with cafepress? i’ve created two designs but only one
shows up. i’ve saved over and over again and had to re-create the 2nd
design over and over again. Each time i log back in the 2nd design has
disappeared.

 Posted by mike.perez on May 11, 2011

Free Comic Day OpenHack

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May 062011
 

Saturday is Free Comic Day at participating local comic book stores
(LCBSs). Personally, I’m looking forward to Atomic Robo! Also, Sunday
is Mother’s Day. Have you forgotten??? Bring a shiny penny and use our
drill press (–after you’ve signed a waiver–) to make her a nice
pendent! [http://www.instructables.com/id/Dimpled-Pendant/]

The OpenHack is where we welcome all those curious to come join in the
fun. Here’s what some members will be working on this week at the
openhack. If you have something you want to work on or discuss, leave
a note in the comments below or just come down to the “works”.

Saturday May 7, 2011

[100-130]
meet and greet

[130-330pm]
RepRap Prusa build

[330-530]
signal generator using 555 timer
TI programming (Launchpad, Capacitive Touch Booster, Chronos, and piccolo)

As always this is a loose schedule and we usually stay past 6pm. See
you guys there!

 Posted by mike.perez on May 6, 2011

membership dues; new on-line payment system

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Apr 302011
 

hi all,

If you hadn’t noticed, we have not been charging dues for the past
couple of months because we have been trying to move to a better
system. Now we have finally moved to a new payment system. If you
haven’t already, please sign up to pay your monthly membership dues
starting for the month of May.

http://www.10bitworks.com/memberships/

Please respond to this post on the blog if you have any questions or problems.

 Posted by mike.perez on April 30, 2011

Open hack April 30 2011

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Apr 292011
 

[UPDATE] The open hack is Apr 30, not the 29th. Sorry.

The open hack is where we welcome all those curious to come join in
the fun. Here’s what some members will be working on this week at the
open hack. If you have something you want to work on or discuss, leave
a note in the comments below or just come down to the shop.

Saturday April 30, 2011

[100-130]
meet and greet

[130-330pm]
soldering together an AM/FM radio
hackduinos and small, cheap kits
TI programming (Launchpad, Chronos, and piccolo)

[330-530]
play along with the Ludum Dare game jam
bench top power supplies
“Transistor” flyer

As always this is a loose schedule and we usually stay past 6pm. See
you guys there!

 Posted by mike.perez on April 29, 2011  Tagged with:

Girlscouts’ FRC robot Show and Tell

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Apr 282011
 

Title: Girlscouts’ FRC robot Show and Tell
Location: 10BitWorks
Link out: Click here
Description: The local Girlscouts have created a First Robotics Competition (FRC) team called Kobayashi Maru. They have competed in other competitions and want to show us their latest creation for the FRC!
Start Time: 01:00
Date: 2011-05-21

 Posted by mike.perez on April 28, 2011  Tagged with: , , ,
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