Posted in Classes on Apr 30th, 2013
You can pick your friends. You can pick your beer. But can you pick… a Lock? Join us on Sunday, May 11th, from 4-6pm at Dallas Makerspace as we embark on an ancient mechanical adventure to explore the inner workings of a modern lock, first developed by the Mesopotamians and Egyptians over 4000 years ago. Led by lockpickers Jamie Schwettmann and a [...]
Have you heard about Bitcoin but don’t know where to start or how it works? On Friday, April 19th Andrew LeCody will be teaching a class that will cover the basics of the Bitcoin currency and network, including: What is Bitcoin? How to use Bitcoins, finding a good/safe wallet How to get Bitcoins What the heck [...]
Posted in Classes on Mar 31st, 2013
“This was a triumph…” The second Python class had a large turnout today. We repeated our feat of packing the classroom. Kudos to Daniel Hosterman for a well orchestrated presentation. The group is picking up momentum. Activities included defining strings in fancy ways, manipulating those strings with native Python functionality, and defining/throwing around new functions. [...]
Posted in Classes on Jan 29th, 2013
Dallas Makerspace will be holding a CryptoParty on February 20th at 7pm, running until about 9pm. CryptoParty is a decentralized, global initiative to introduce basic cryptography tools – such as the Tor anonymity network, public key encryption (PGP/GPG), and OTR (Off The Record messaging) – to the general public. The topic of the CryptoParty being [...]
Posted in Classes on Oct 18th, 2012
DMS Members Mike Eber (KD5QLN) and Pat Hykkonen (NT5PH) will be teaching an Amateur Radio class for the Technician class license at the Dallas Makerspace. Classes start on Nov 5th at 7:30pm and run each Monday until the 26th when we will have VE’s from the W5YI Group come and administer the tests. Classes are Free, [...]
Posted in Classes on Mar 16th, 2012
Well it is now officially springtime. And with spring comes severe weather across North Texas as we reside in “Tornado Alley”. Did you ever wonder how the National Weather Service gets its information to issue weather alerts? The NWS enlists volunteers in a program called SkyWarn, usually Amateur Radio Operators, to be their eyes on [...]
Posted in Classes, Hacks, Meetup, Photography on Jan 21st, 2012
Our 2nd annual open house was a huge success and it’s about time we posted some photos. The photo above is a 360 degree panorama shot by Nicole on 35mm film. She also got some cool 360 shots of the main hallway, robots and burgers, and the pinhole camera tutorial. Then you can take a [...]
Posted in Classes on Aug 12th, 2011
You can pick your friends. You can pick your beer. But can you pick… a Lock? Join us on Saturday, August 13th from 5-7pm, as we embark on an ancient mechanical adventure to explore the inner workings of a modern lock, first developed by the Mesopotamians and Egyptians over 4000 years ago. Led by lockpickers [...]
