We all now what chocolate is, We know its a great gift, But is it good For SCIENCE?!?!?
Well we decided to experiment with chocolate this month. Because wow uhm, can you think of a worse task to do?
And we want to share with you our findings, and hopefully make the tasty argument for your mind that hacking and making is not all about wires and soldering irons! Sometimes it it can be fun rewarding and tasty!
Come on down for our End of month expo!
Hacking Chocolate Saturday, February 25 6-10pm Quelab, 1112 2nd St NW Quelab.net
February is the month of love, but more importantly the month of chocolate! Join us as we explore, experiment, and share new frontiers in molecular gastronomy. Experiment with chocolate and other confections, and see our chocolate-powered rocket engine! Make coco pearls, and more! We hope to have some local confectioners there to talk about their wares too!
Our Track record for repeating events is low(we are all busy you know), So Put it on your calendar today!!!
Peek is a project to streamline Android to run on lower cost devices, and run more smoothly.
I am an Android user and supporter, but am often embarrassed by the sluggishness of the OS as delivered by my phone carrier. I hope that some of the Peek work will bring user responsiveness to a par with iOS. If you are interested in playing with Peek hardware, they are making older production systems available to hackers.
Charel reports that the mini maker faire will co-locate with ISEA 2012. It will be at the Civic Plaza from 10-6.
See the Chocolate Forum for discussion of activities we are planning for the February 25 Chocolate Event(s).
We are having a combined, members/planing meeting today at 1:30-3pm but after that some folks may show up tonight for hacknight, but as far as i know we are not “officially” open.
Quick install directions for people using a Debian based LINUX distro, like Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre gcc-avr avr-libc
Then get the package for your platform from http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software, 32 or 64 bit linux.
Unpack the archive:
cd
tar xvf Downloads/arduino*.tgz
Put a symbolic link to …/arduino???/arduino on your path:
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s ~/arduino-0023/arduino
Open the IDE, arduino& on the command line, and select the correct serial port possibly ttyACM0.
Bam Done!
Install a launcher for /usr/local/bin/arduino if desired.
ABQ Sprout
sponsors a dinner where people present grant proposals.
The winning proposal takes home the bulk of the money charged for the dinner.
The winning proposal usually has some “benefit to the community”.
The deadline for proposals is Sunday, Jan 22 (extended one week). They do not have many proposals!
If you want to propose, go for it!
If you have an idea that Quelab can propose, please let us know, and
perhaps we can work together on a Quelab proposal.
Either way, I hope some of us can attend, and if any of the proposals
seem like they could be assisted by Quelab, we can offer support.
They need volunteers, contact them if you can help.
Support kitchen staff is needed, and if you are not “certified”
you will need to attend a food service training which is being
offered for free to volunteers.
They also need donations of dishes, glasses, and flatware.
If you have dishes, or know of a restaurant changing their
settings, PLEASE let them know.
Planning to cure some bacon week after new year’s. If you want to join, get those pork bellies in brine NOW, and follow:
Bacon Forum
Kellers got bacon this AM, 1/9/2012. Act fast to reserve some before they freeze it!
Quick link back in time explaining what a 2600 meeting is, and why you might care.
http://quelab.net/wordpress/85/505-area-2600-meetings-first-friday-of-the-month-6pm-10ish/
Friday 6-9pm Geekery and Gadgets.
But if you are interested, they are always the 1st Friday of the month, and they are free events.
Quick reminder, join us for our monthly General Meeting this Sunday and help us out getting this new year off on the right foot!
Big news! We are now a registered NM Non-Profit and we are very close to having everything ready with our 501(c)3 sponsor, so we need to get hopping on hunting down some donors, and grants! We need you for that!
Members are encouraged to come sit in on our Board Meeting, 5-6pm
Stay or arrive for some pizza. 6:00-6:30pm
Members and the public are encouraged to come to our planning meeting, 6:30-7:30ish pm
Stay afterwards for hacknight!
This is all at our headquarters, 1112 2nd Street NW! Be there!
