Hive13

At the Hive we are really excited to announce new membership tiers!  We are now offering $50 a month for FULL membership to new members.  This is the same level of access as our old $100 tier, which gives you a door code, 24/7 access to the space, lockers, discounts on classes and the admiration of your peers!

We are having a membership drive to get 15 new members.  This number is important because with 15 new members we can ensure that the overall membership to the space can be lowered to $50/mo for good and still pay our rent!  There is also a little red meter under the subscribe  button on the main page so everybody can follow along on the progress of the drive.

To become a full member goto the main page at www.hive13.org and click “Subscribe” on the right hand side.

A little lower down the the sidebar is another new tier called the Elite tier.  This is a donation tier.  If you can’t make it to the Hive but you still want to support us, then this is the tier for you!  Members will also get discounts on upcoming classes at the hive!  If you are a full time student then you can sign up for the Elite tier, fill out the student application (still to come) and you can be a full member as well!

Please spread this message around.  We need to make this membership drive a success!

Hive 13 member Steve Lackermann will be hosting a Reverse Engineering workshop Wednesday, Nov. 17th at 7:00 PM. Bring your laptop (Linux or Windows, it doesn’t matter, we’ll provide the software) and participate in this hands-on workshop where you’ll reverse engineer your very first program!  Even if you have no programming or reverse engineering experience, by the end of this workshop you will understand the basics of reverse engineering and be able to begin teaching yourself.  This workshop will be completely free.

If you can bring an empty flash drive (at least 2 GB), please do so. Please direct any questions to slackermann@hive13.org

For some idea of what we’ll be doing, here’s a tutorial on YouTube:

Come and see the amazing Tim Kaiser and his one of a kind experimental musical instruments. Tim Kaiser spins an acoustic web of sound that will sweep you away into a reverie of memories and dreams.

http://timkaiser.org/

Opening the show, local circuit bender, and sound sculptor Mike Hancock.

A donation of $5 is requested to support the Hive and Tim. There is no smoking in the hive.

Come join the Hive13 crew at the Mini-Sumobot Competition at LVL1 Hackerspace.  There will most likely be some car pooling going on the day of the competition but the details are not worked out yet.  If you want to help we are still building our sumobot and you are welcome to come down the the Hive and work on it with us!  We have practice sumo rings already setup!

Official LVL1 wiki page is here.  See you there!

Did you know Hive13 is hosting a papermaking workshop this week? We almost forgot about it too! Here are the details:

We’ll start at 7:00pm Wednesday, October 13th.

You don’t need to bring anything and the class is free of charge. (Donations to Hive13 are always welcome.)

We’ll be following this tutorial: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bzedan/sets/967347/

Circuit-bending rock band CMKT4 will be in Cincinnati September 26th and will be stopping by Hive13 to lead a workshop on building bottle cap contact microphones.  The workshop will start at 2:00pm and last about three hours.  The last hour or so will include a performance by the band while the handmade microphones dry.

Participants will be able to purchase contact microphone kits from CMKT4 and build them for $15.  Additional kits of parts can be purchased for $10 for those that want to build more than one microphone.  Hive13 will provide the soldering tools needed. Note: You must pay the $15 directly to CMKT4 in person to participate in the workshop.

Please RSVP at our eventbrite page here.

For more about CMKT4 and circuit-bending, check out these links:
* http://vimeo.com/cremedementia/videos
* http://www.youtube.com/user/CremeDeMentia
* http://www.getlofi.com/

This Wednesday, September 8, Hive13 is happy to host Jenny Kessler for a demo on making bins out of recycled plastic shopping bags. We’ll get started at 7pm. Bring a few plastic shopping bags, an old iron, and some parchment paper if you have them. Don’t worry if you don’t have the supplies – we’ll have some of each of the above for those that want to participate.

Mitch Altman and Jimmie P. Rodgers are coming to Cincinnati and HIVE13 this August 17 and 18. We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting one of their famous “learn to solder” workshops!

They will be the featured guest speakers at our regularly scheduled meeting at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, August 17 and their solder workshop is at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, August 18. Both events are at Cincinnati’s Hive13 at 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Register for the soldering class at the eventbrite page: http://mitchhive13.eventbrite.com/

Best of all, the meeting and workshop are FREE! You just pay the cost of any workshop materials, $10-30 depending on which kit you choose! Mitch and Jimmie have taught thousands of people to solder and make cool things at their workshops all around the world. They can teach you, too!

If you have ever had any curiosity about making something with electronics, then please join us. Anyone and everyone can learn to make cool things. It’s fun and easy! You can learn to make something and take it home with you!

There will be plenty of cool kits available to build, including:
* TV-B-Gone (turn off TVs in public places!)
* Brain Machine (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!)
* LEDcube (cool cube of blinky lights!)
* Mignonette Game (play fun games!)
* Trippy RGB Waves (interactive colored blinky lights!)
* MiniPOV (more cool blinky lights!)
* MintyBoost (charge your USB enabled gadgets!)

And for the more advanced:
* Microcontroller programmers (program all your AVR family chips!), Arduino clones (make just about anything!), and more.

Mitch Altman is the San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for co-founding 3ware, his pioneering work in Virtual Reality at VPL Research and inventing TV-B-Gone. He is also President and CTO of Cornfield Electronics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman

Jimmie Rodgers is a full time hacker, maker and circuit bender, from the Boston area. He designs open source hardware kits, teaches a variety of workshops, and gives talks on related topics that
interest. He currently sells three kits. The Open Heart v2.0 is a LED array that you can easily create animations for. The Atari Punk Console is a simple and fun sound generator. The LoL Shield is an
Arduino shield with lots of LEDs on it. Check out the kits section for more information. http://jimmieprodgers.com/

UPDATE: If you can bring your own tools that would be very helpful since Hive13 can only provide so many. Participants will need a soldering iron, a wire snippers, a wire stripper, some solder and a helping hands. Hive13 will have a few of each of those, but the more people that bring their own means the fewer people that have to share tools. The class is free but if you’d like to make a donation we would appreciate it. We would like to be able to invest in a few more tools so we can have workshops like this again and again.

A shortage of speakers and presentations has caused a great many cinci2600 meetings to drift by, so tonight we are going to watch a movie instead.  Come on by Friday, August 6th at 7PM and watch a hacker themed film.  It has been suggested that we watch “Sneakers” but there are other films available as well as some defcon and HOPE presentations if you want the night to be more academic.

This July marks the one year anniversary of Hive13′s existence and we’re planning a big party to celebrate!

The party will be held on July 24th, 2010 at our space in Camp Washington: 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

We’re planning on having the usual fun: laser graffiti, drinks, music, games, and more.  Also: Hive13 member, hacker extraordinaire, and nationwide nerdcore rap-star int80 of Dualcore will be performing live at Hive13.

You can RSVP on Facebook.