If you didn’t have plans this Saturday, now you do. The Hacktory and the Prometheus Radio Project are offering a bilingual (English/Spanish) workshop to build your own radio transmitter, and Azavea is hosting an intro to Python for women and their friends.
At The Hacktory, staff and volunteers from the Prometheus Radio Project will be teaching a workshop on how to build a small radio transmitter that can reach across a room. It’s an easy way to get music or speech across a short expanse wirelessly and it’s a great intro to basic electronics and soldering. Here’s an interview that Tek Lado did with the instructors.
If that’s not your bag, you might like to try your hand at basic coding in Python, described as “incredibly intuitive.” Python tends to be known as a simple but very accurate language that’s great for prototyping because you can build things quickly, … Read the rest
Read MoreSince I finished my capstone I’ve been kind of relaxing, for some definition of relaxing. I’ve done some sewing, some reading, some travelling, some work on the house, and some light organizing. But I haven’t jumped into any big projects or aggressive job-hunting, so I’ve been feeling a little guilty. I’ve also felt guilty for ignoring this space.
But this isn’t a “I’m sorry I haven’t posted, I’ve been so busy” post. Well, not exclusively. This morning I was feeling ready to tackle one of the projects that is piling up a little and went to the directory on my laptop where I keep notes on projects. It’s super low-tech but it works. I keep a different directory for each year, and another directory for each project, then whatever files are relevant in there, like this:
projects
2009
2010
2011
UN
techgirlz
hacktory
mastergardener
...
So I went to that … Read the rest
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