Cinnamon Lee is exhibiting her Masters of Philosphy work at the ANU School of Art's gallery space. Lots of lasercut, LED embeded, microcontrolled awesomeness.

Heres an article explaining how a "Watt's Drill" works. It is a drill bit with an off-centre Reuleaux triangle bit which will cut an almost-square shape.

http://upper.us.edu/faculty/smith/reuleaux.htm

Heres a good technique for boring holes straight down the centre of rods. http://vik-olliver.blogspot.com/2010/02/drilling-down-middle.html

This means we can now make most of the plastruder heater barrel ourselves instead of having to buy it!

I found this place in Hume, 3x8M suitable for a workshop. Asking price is $77/week. It probably large enough to tide us over for 6 months-1 year.

http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/act/rent-commercial/23-raws-crescent-hume-canberra/1316738718111

Because we could not come to a conclusion in time I had to turn down the offer of the space. I'll be doing a longer write up in the agenda notes which I'll have Gus read out at the meeting or you can try and catch me on IRC.

The next Make, Hack, Void meeting will at 6:30pm on Tuesday the 2nd of March 2010 at the food court near Dendy/JB Hifi in the Canberra Centre.

I've started writing an unofficial list of potential members. With this, we can begin to estimate numbers and budgets for any space we will get. If you'd like to be included, please email me (gus at projectgus dot com) with the following details:

Some of us have organised to see a potential space at 1800 tonight in Braddon. Jump in irc.freenode.net/#makehackvoid and ask someone for the address. We'll still be at the regular meeting where we will knuckle down and start asking hard questions about money and policy.

The next Make, Hack, Void meeting will at 6:30pm on Tuesday the 23rd of Feb 2010 at the food court near Dendy/JB Hifi in the Canberra Centre.

We shall be holding a small (6 hour) hackfest to come up with a set of generic libraries for use with AVR projects that performs better than the Arduino runtimes. We may end up with a hacked Arduino runtime, or we may create something from scratch.

Start time is midday at the Wig & Pen Now moved to PJ OReily's since the Wig & Pen does not open until 2pm.