We had a bit of server trouble yesterday after a PHP upgrade and some other changes meant that this specific instance of Drupal was causing the serving Apache thread to segfault. As there was some new module and database activity going on prior to the outage our sysadmin attempted to resolve the issue  with a database restore. While it's nice to know our backups are working, the last snapshot was from before my blog entry regarding some concers about our web presence.

Thanks to Alastair we now have two mailing lists, one for "committee business" and one for "maker stuff"

See all the details here.

(Sorry for the late post, folks!)

The next Make, Hack, Void meeting is at 6:15pm on Tuesday the 11th of May 2010 at The Braddon Club.

6:15-7:15pm Official group & committee business 
7:15-8:30pm "Maker's Meetup", show & tell (bring projects!), project talk, fun stuff

Our official business this week will be focused on writing some more of the association documents.

Feel free to attend either or both parts of the meeting. First timers welcome.

Many links...
http://www.dansdata.com/gz104.htm

Demonstrates how one can play with robots and microcontrollers with any budget. Money is no barrier to getting into it.

The next Make, Hack, Void meeting is at 6:15pm on Tuesday the 27th of April 2010 at The Braddon Club.

6:15-7:15pm Official group & committee business 
7:15-8:30pm "Maker's Meetup", show & tell (bring projects!), project talk, fun stuff

Our official business this week will be focused on writing some more of the association documents.

Feel free to attend either or both parts of the meeting. First timers welcome.

The next Make, Hack, Void meeting is at 6:15pm on Tuesday the 27th of April 2010 at The Braddon Club.

6:15-7:15pm Official group & committee business 
7:15-8:30pm "Maker's Meetup", show & tell (bring projects!), project talk, fun stuff

Our official business this week will be focused on organising the Emiglio tear down day next weekend and we'll also be working on writing some of the association documents.

Angus has kindly offered his Emiglio robot as a mascot for Make Hack Void.

Incase you are wondering this is what Emiglio looks like:

We only have one though.

This is a list of suppliers for parts and items, of interest to the group.

If you have any suppliers to add, or any comments on the suppliers mentioned, please post a comment and we'll incorporate it into the main list.

Important: Opinions and experiences mentioned below are the personal opinions of the individual authors, and do not reflect the opinions of Make Hack Void Inc. Your experience may vary.

The next Make, Hack, Void meeting is at 6:15pm on Tuesday the 20th of April 2010 at The Braddon Club.

There is a new timetable for meetings:

I have a Samsung SGH-A411 and wondered if I could send a sms from my linux machine. This URL was the basis of the program below.

Using CPAN to install Device::Gsm I notice it also installed Device::Modem. I already had Device::USB installed.

The serial device was discovered via dmesg.