Is there a Maker community in GR?
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Is there a maker community in GR to tap into? We have a course in the Art Department at GVSU called Interactive Studio that is based around using a program called MAX in screen-based, object and spatial constructions. The MAX environment offers lots of pre-built modules that allow users to employ powerful programming through a well organized graphical interface. The course also incorporates using ARDUINO boards and various inputs/outputs image, video, sound. . .
Who is into this stuff in GR? We're especially interested in students already at GVSU (in any departments) or those interested in the course.
The course is Art 394 Interactive Studio (CRN 18021). Offered in Fall Semester TTH 11-1:50pm. It is part of the Visual Studies program. Great for artists, musicians, dancers, creative programmers, coders, designers. -
There's this http://thegeekgroup.org/
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Thought I'd share this here. It looks pretty cool.
OpenBeam - An open source miniature construction system - http://kck.st/HuptZI -
I am looking at starting a hacking group, I think I might have a space we could do it in too. I do a lot of arduino/processing/openFrameworks and have messed with max (more pure data though) hit me up at lukasz[a]hellowoo.com
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@lukasz That would be awesome! Where would this space be?
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I have a friend that owns a art gallery, I am going to talk to her about seeing if we can't use the space. otherwise my work has a spot on commerce in downtown we could probably use at night.
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@George right on man. you should come down sometime if we get it rolling. I am still a newb at arduino, but I have gotten some cool stuff working like motion sensors/proximity sensors and hooked them up to things like processing. its really fun.
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p.s. we will be doing lots of fun things like hacking kinects and such. got this working not long ago: http://hellowoo.com/uploads/drawing-with-finger.jpg :)
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get a hold of me, I am getting things organized and need to see how many people are interested.
got a site rockin: http://ifelseifelse.com check it out. getting people organized. -
I've been talking to some friends about how rad Noisebridge is. We looked up on the Hackerspaces.org site. NEST is defunct but...
Has any review/contact been made with the Geek Group? -
I went down to the Geek Group site on Leonard and it does seem to be a legit organization. They have a huge space over there but it seems to be a little disorganized. I did get a demo of their 30' Tesla coils which was awesome. They are in the process of opening this up to the public but right now the space is for members only. I got the impression there were about 100 or so active/on-site members that use the place at any given time.
The bad part was they didn't have any kind of events planned. It was just a space to go work and they have a lot of the tools there for you to use and learn with on your own. I think this would be very cool if they had an electronics hacking event were they showed off their projects and got members involved.
If anyone does decide they to setup a hacker space let me know. I would like to get involved with this as well. Interested in electronics, computers and wood working.
Chris
cweatherford @ gmail .com
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I am interested in getting involved at a certain level - but my interest has waned a little over the years (filled with other projects) - that said we could use my print shop as a meeting place if anyone was interested.
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The Factory does offer a decent workspace, granted there is a charge but they do have beer:30 and a lot of people who may be knowledgeable about all of that ....computer lingo and programs that I don't understand.
http://www.workthefactory.com/
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